When an app is created through the Splunk GUI, as in this recipe, Splunk essentially creates a new folder (or directory) named operational_intelligence within the $SPLUNK_HOME/etc/apps directory. Within the $SPLUNK_HOME/etc/apps/operational_intelligence directory, you will find four new subdirectories that contain all the configuration files needed for our barebones Operational Intelligence app that we just created, as shown in the following screenshot:
The eagle-eyed among you would have noticed that there were two templates that could have been selected from when creating the app: barebones and sample_app. The barebones