Splunk Developer Connection
Package
You don’t have to be a developer to create a Splunk application. Its easy to package your own searches and restyle the Web-based interface.
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Build
Splunk's REST API provides methods to build your own application, access IT data from existing applications and integrate IT data into Web pages and Web services.
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Embed
Need an embedded engine to collect, organize and secure logs, configuration and metrics? Splunk's flexibility and lightweight footprint makes it an ideal solution.
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Peoples of the Interweb, As one of the Splunk Support Monkeys I am going to try to start a semi-regular series of posts on a topic that is near and dear to me - getting the Splunk community to be able to troubleshoot their issues without the need to reach out to the Support Team. The most important piece of any troubleshooting exercise is getting Read more »
WMI comes to Splunk
The Windows release of Splunk Preview debuts with WMI. So, what is WMI for all you splunkheads out there? It's an OS interface which allows "instrumented components to provide information and notification". WMI gives you the ability to query system instrumentation data such as system performance, event logs, end countless other events that occur Read more »
Splunk Windows Registry Monitor
Hey everyone, just wanted to let you know that a preview release of Splunk just left the docks. http://www.splunk.com/index.php/preview I want to introduce to you one the latest features for Windows Splunk - the monitoring of Windows registry in real time for activity/events, and the indexing and searching these events with Splunk. While working on Read more »
On the off chance you need help with Windows
Hello Internets, As one of the splunkers responsible for answering the phone I'm going to use this space to talk about something near and dear to my hart - empowering my customers so they are able to figure out their own problems thereby allowing me read FARK all day long. Since we recently released our Windows version a bunch of the folks in the Read more »
overriding default syslog host extraction
I had a customer recently ask how to change the host that was applied to a particular set of incoming events. Normally this wouldn't be a big deal, just specify the new name in inputs.conf. But this is from syslog. When you set one of the syslog sourcetypes there is some extra processing to extract the correct hostname which overrides other Read more »
Splunk for Virtualization
I'm looking for some help. I've built a VMWare app for splunk and in the process of doing the same for Xen. These Apps use the VMWare and Xensource API's to index everything about the VM environment. When combined with splunk instances running within the guest OS you get a very comprehensive historical picture. I'm curious are there any splunk Read more »
Developer Videos
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The Art of the Browser: What's New, JavaScript
May 08, 2008
The Art of the Browser X/HTML 5
May 08, 2008
Nick Mealy: Changing Themes in Splunk
Mar 11, 2008
Leo Budchenko: .NET SDK Introduction
Mar 03, 2008
Johnvey Hwang: Platform Introduction
Feb 29, 2008