Splunk® Style Guide

Splunk Style Guide

The guidelines in the Splunk Style Guide establish best practices for writing technical documentation. Search docs.splunk.com to find documentation related to Splunk products.

GIFs

You can use an animated GIF to show steps in a UI. Use an animated GIF to supplement task information or paragraph text, so don't remove essential text in favor of a GIF.

If a GIF requires a voiceover, is longer than 5 seconds in duration, or needs the ability to pause or skip ahead, use a video instead. See Best practices for including videos.

See the following example of an animated GIF:

The following animation shows how to add a Flow Model and launch the Explorer. The animation starts from the home page. Then, the user clicks the Add new Flow Model button. A pop-up message appears, and the user enters a name and base search for the Flow Model and clicks submit. In the Flow Model editor, the user selects customer_id under correlation ID and action under step, and then clicks Explore. The Explore view shows a flowchart of steps, starting with "new account created" and ending in "purchased game".

For general guidelines on including images in Splunk docs, see Best practices for including images.

Last modified on 25 September, 2023
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