App components

App components

This page is a general introduction to all the pieces of an app. You can pick and choose what works for you. This page also defines useful terms that you'll need to understand for the rest of this manual.

Customizable UI

Use Splunk's app framework to make custom UIs for different users and use cases. Splunk's UI (Splunk Web) is completely customizable, so you can make small changes to a single page in Splunk Web or completely redesign Splunk's UI.

change Splunk's appearance

Change everything from the menu layout to background images, build your own custom HTML and JavaScript into your app. Learn more about what you can do here.

build your own pages in Splunk

• Build a dashboard
  • Dashboards are useful for presenting visual summaries of various searches.
  • Learn more about dashboards here.
• Build a form search
  • Form searches let you restrict the search interface to present one or more search boxes with more complex searches running behind the scenes.
  • There's more information here.
• Build a search view
  • Search views are pages that let you run a search and interact with search results.
  • The default search view is the flash timeline view -- the standard Splunk search UI you're probably used to.
  • Learn more about search views here.

Customizable back-end

Customize your app further by collecting and managing specific types of data. Add knowledge to your data to facilitate your users and use cases. Most of Splunk's configurations are now available through Splunk Web's Manager interface. Through Splunk Manager, you can:

• Add inputs and indexes to collect and store your data.
• Add knowledge through objects such as saved searches, reports and fields.
• Set permissions on apps and objects.
• Create and edit new views and navigation menus.
• Add users and roles and scope them to your app.

Learn more about custom configurations, objects and permissions here.

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