Splunk Developer's Guide - Second Edition

Summary

In this chapter, we covered some deeper elements of Splunk applications and visualizations. Starting with the basics of HTML dashboards and the Splunk Web Framework, we discussed how to include basic CSS overrides for some of the Splunk CSS. We also covered the static folder location within an app that serves content as needed. We mentioned the use of the bump button to bust open the caches if something isn't rendered properly. After that protip, we reviewed each of the SplunkJS modules, how to instantiate them, and gave an example of each. Moving right along, we reviewed how to set tokens within the dashboard, and how to trigger changes in the display based on updates to the tokens. We customized the dashboard with CSS and started including ...