Package Your Splunk Application
Find yourself getting lost providing solutions for your user's massive amounts of IT data? Let Splunk come to the rescue. Splunk can eat and index massive amounts of data, including server configuration files, historical server trajectories, power consumption, network traffic, database writes, mail messages, and just about anything else as long as it's timestamped and looks like text. Using your domain experience and Splunk's powerful indexing and search features, you can package up a solution providing your users a detailed window into their IT data.
| 1. Get Splunk
Splunk is a snap to install, and easy to configure. Splunk runs on Windows, Linux, Solaris, OSX, BSD and AIX. |
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2. Configure your application
You don't have to be a programmer to get Splunk to do amazing things with your data. If you're capable of a bit of scripting, Splunk supports custom search commands written in Python, Perl, and C++. |
| 3. Package it
Splunk makes it a snap to package up your custom configurations, scripts, and dashboard layouts. |
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4. Publish it
Use your application to copy configurations to other servers, or upload it to SplunkBase to share with other users. |
| 5. Market it
Soon, you'll be able to market your applications on SplunkBase to users looking for specific IT data solutions. |
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