About apps and add-ons
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About apps and add-ons
Splunkbase is the Splunk app marketplace. You can download apps and add-ons for use in your Splunk environment, or you can create your own and upload them to share with other members of the Splunk community.
What are apps and add-ons?
Apps offer specialized insight into your data and systems with pre-configured dashboards, reports, data inputs, and saved searches. Apps can include new views and dashboards that completely reconfigure the way Splunk looks. Or, they can be as complex as an entirely new program using Splunk's REST API. More specifically, an app is a self-service out-of-the box extension that has its own UI context and which, once installed, can be selected from the App list that appears at the upper right-hand corner of Splunk Web.
Add-ons let you tackle specific data problems directly. They are smaller, reusable components that can change the look and feel of Splunk, add data sources, or share information between users. Add-ons can be as simple as a collection of one or more event type definitions or saved searches. Unlike apps, add-ons have no GUI component; they don't show up in the Home list or in the Apps menu in Splunk Web.
For more information about apps, add-ons, and how to build them, review "Apps and add-ons" in the Developing Dashboards, Views, and Apps for Splunk Web manual in the core Splunk product documentation.
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