Big Data Analytics Using Splunk: Deriving Operational Intelligence from Social Media, Machine Data, Existing Data Warehouses, and Other Real-Time Streaming Sources

APPENDIX B

Useful Splunk Apps

This chapter contains an overview of few useful Splunk Apps and Add-Ons that fall in the categories of monitoring, security, databases, applications, application servers, and networking.

Splunk Apps

In the previous chapters of this book, we have explored and used a few Splunk Apps and Add-Ons such as Splunk App for Windows, *Nix, Google Maps, Globe, Web Intelligence, Sentimental Analysis, Splunk DB Connect, Splunk Deployment Monitor, and so on. Before we dive into this chapter, let’s do a quick recap on Splunk Apps.

Splunk is designed as a platform that serves as an infrastructure where third-party developers or ...