Database Reference
In-Depth Information
Summary
In this chapter, you learned what a Splunk app and add-on are, and you learned about their
usefulness. We outlined the different types of applications, noted the numbers of various
apps in different categories, and listed several examples of each. You learned how to find
an app using Splunk's list of apps, and we discussed the ease and usefulness of developing
a Splunk app for a company so that Splunk's functionalities can be used to smoothly work
with the company's data. Finally, after introducing you to the Twitter app and learning
about how to obtain a Twitter API key to use with it, we went through the process of in-
stalling it.
Next, we'll go on to
Chapter 6
,
Using the Twitter App
, and learn how you can use Splunk
with this app to create reports and dashboards from streaming tweets.
