Learning Splunk Web Framework

Expanding our Splunk app with maps

We will now go through another example in our NASA Squid and Web Data App to run through a more complex type of visualization to present to our user. We will use the Basic Dashboard that we created, but we will change the Simple XML to give it a more meaningful name, and then set up a map to present to our users where our requests are actually coming from. Maps use a map element and don't rely on the chart element as we have been using.

The Simple XML code for the dashboard we created earlier in this chapter looks like this:

<dashboard> 
  <label>Basic Dashboard</label> 
</dashboard>

So let's get to work and give our Basic Dashboard a little "bling":

1. We go into the local directory of our Splunk App, and into the views ...