Chapter 4. Building an Operational Intelligence Application

In this chapter, we will learn how to build and modify a Splunk application. We will cover the following topics:

  • Creating an Operational Intelligence application
  • Adding dashboards and reports
  • Organizing the dashboards more efficiently
  • Dynamically drilling down on activity reports
  • Creating a form to search web activity
  • Linking web page activity reports to the form
  • Displaying a geographical map of visitors
  • Scheduling PDF delivery of a dashboard

Introduction

In the previous chapter, we were introduced to Splunk's awesome dashboarding and visualization capabilities. We created several basic dashboards and populated them with various Operational Intelligence-driven visualizations. In this chapter, we ...

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