Splunk Applications

In this chapter, we'll cover how to combine configuration files, scripts, knowledge objects, and reports/dashboards into packages called apps that make Splunk more useful and relevant to specific technologies or business-driven use cases. This chapter will also introduce several of the most useful (and mostly free) apps and add-ons available from Splunkbase that further extend the value of Splunk by providing optimized data collection and management functions for a wide variety of technologies, including Linux and Windows servers, databases, and various logs and metrics from AWS, to give just a few examples. Finally, we'll review the Splunk Machine Learning Toolkit, DB Connect, and Splunk's premium apps – IT Service Intelligence, Enterprise Security, and User Behavior Analytics, and see how they fit into comprehensive monitoring and situational...