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Labs Projects

This is where the Splunk Labs examples start. We throw ideas around, see what sticks then put it up here for someone to pick it up and run with.

Frankly, there's a lot of cruft in here, but that's by intent. At the end of the day we'd like enough content floating around to give new developers an idea what they can do with the Splunk Platform.

Developer Specific

  * a RoR specific bundle that provides BI for !RoR installs and includes a !RoR kit for the API
  * flash based widgets (how about a radar display)
  * XAML widget
  * robot hobbyists (not to be confused with robot monkeys)
  * hosted service for the free product to allow people to use it quickly
  * Monitor manufacturing plant assembly line robots
  * Splunk for LOLcats - LOLSplunk - think GIS on steroids... or crack.
  * general purpose search interface for using Splunk as a simple search engine
  * A dashboard made up of a tag cloud generated in real-time from relevant terms in your events, as they are indexed? "Real-time search cloud"

General Mashups

  * wikia scanner mark ii
  * mashup for Google maps
  * provide 'event' logging for Facebook applications
  * ebay API mashup
  * mashup for LiveJournal, and MovableType
  * mashup for Weather Underground
  * splunk articles about all the articles about the political candidates
  * twitterific mashup
  * crawl and eat mp3 files on your hard drive, then pipe to an itunes playlist
  * friends info (wall posts, personal info, photos, notes) aggregator from multiple social nets
  * dedicated service that allows facbook and myspace users to throw events into and then generate graphs, reports, widgets from
  * mashup with http://www.opencalais.com/ for semantic context
  * mashup with http://www.swivel.com/

Statistics

  * sports stats logging
  * traffic patterns - 511.org
  * university class schedules
  * online game server summary graphs
  * Genetics - DNA analysis
  * voting records from the legislator
  * profanity monitor for forums

Customizing Splunk's Interface

  * Splunk shell command line thing
  * configurable lists in the UI
  * alternate interfaces via AJAX and Flex
  * Interface with splunk via IM and receive IM alerts from live splunks.
  * Interface with splunk via [[1][OPC]]
  * Alternative views of results. (similar to google's alternative views)

Apple Related

  * widgets for OSX dashboard
  * iphone development debugging (thanks Mark)

Business Intelligence

  * isolate website press mentions (through web referrer logging in your weblogs)
  * twiki logs - bundle from Nick
  * analyze digg, slashdot, reddit for stupid spammers
  * add on for jira and perforce
  * monitor and alert profile on mypace 
  * stock data place and how that affects the stock (sorken was pulling down stock data)
  * basic BI - point of sale stats
  * eat reviews ticket sales
  * where you are in google search queries
  * a package like [[2][Mint]] for download and install to your website, and for tracking your [[3][MySpace]] hits.
  * http://simile.mit.edu/timeplot/

Compliance

  * Splunk PCI Application
  * splunk IM logs

Availability

  * bundle geared to iostats, run experiments

Security

  * one laptop per child project "pairing" to allow you to see if your kid is online
  * Eat biometric data (Jason) - from security devices

Visualization

  * Globe Application
  * Matrix View