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Splunk Essentials

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2016
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ISBN-13 9781785889462
Length 236 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Somesh Soni Somesh Soni
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Betsy Page Sigman Betsy Page Sigman
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Erickson Delgado Erickson Delgado
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Preface 1. Splunk in Action FREE CHAPTER 2. Bringing in Data 3. Search Processing Language 4. Data Models and Pivot 5. Data Optimization, Reports, Alerts, and Accelerating Searches 6. Panes of Glass 7. Splunk SDK for JavaScript and D3.js 8. HTTP Event Collector 9. Best Practices and Advanced Queries

Introduction to Splunk SDKs


A software development kit (also called a SDK or DevKit) is usually a set of software development tools that allows the creation of applications for a certain software package or software framework, but can also refer to a development kit for a computer system, operating system (OS), hardware platform, or even a video game system. We will use the Splunk SDK as a means of extracting data from Splunk and using it for external purposes (for example, a public website).

Splunk actually has several software development kits that sit on top of the REST API. These kits are for Python, Java, JavaScript, PHP, Ruby, and C#, and they allow developers to do all kinds of different things, such as integrating Splunk with third-party tools, logging directly into Splunk, extracting data to create archives, and others. They allow developers to do this using popular programming languages.

These Splunk SDKs do several specific tasks:

  1. They handle HTTP access.

  2. By utilizing a user ID and...

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