Overview

Overview

Splunk provides timeline indexing for event based logging activities, such as those contained in system logfiles. The Splunk product platform is powerful and complex, and provides methods for multiple levels of customization including administration settings, configuration files, a REST API, a SOAP API, CSS configuration and more.

Use the information in the following sections to extend Splunk or embed Splunk into applications.

You can:

• Customize the appearance of SplunkWeb
• Add a Splunk toolbar to your Firefox browser
• Create canned searches that can be saved as URLs
• Use Python or Perl scripts to process and direct the output from Splunk search results
• Access Splunk features from your custom application through a HTTP request using the REST API
• Customize alerting

and more.

Proceed through the links at left to learn more.