Chapter 1. The Splunk Interface
This chapter will walk you through the most common elements in the Splunk interface, and will touch upon concepts that will be covered in greater detail, in later chapters. You may want to dive right into the search section, but an overview of the user interface elements might save you some frustration later. We will cover the following topics in this chapter:
- Logging in and app selection
- A detailed explanation of the search interface widgets
- A quick overview of the admin interface
Logging into Splunk
The Splunk GUI interface (Splunk is also accessible through its command-line interface [CLI] and REST API) is web-based, which means that no client needs to be installed. Newer browsers with fast JavaScript engines, such ...
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