Splunk Operational Intelligence Cookbook

Creating a Python application to return unique IP addresses

The Splunk Python SDK was one of the first SDKs that Splunk developed and has since been used to integrate Splunk's ability to process and analyze large streams of data into custom applications. By leveraging the ability to integrate directly with your applications, you can see immediate results and fully leverage your operational intelligence capabilities.

In this recipe, you will learn how to use Splunk's Python SDK to create a custom Python application that will return unique IP addresses from the web server logs of our application.

Getting ready

To step through this recipe, you will need a running Splunk Enterprise server, with the sample data loaded from Chapter 1, Play Time – Getting ...