Working with Apps - Implementing Splunk: Big Data Reporting and Development for Operational Intelligence - page 174

Set the fields as follows:
• Set Name to Implementing Splunk App One . This name will be visible
on the home screen, in the App menu, and in the app banner in the upper
left of the window.
• Set Folder name to is_app_one . This value will be the name of the app
directory on the filesystem, so you should limit your name to letters,
numbers, and underscores.
• Set Visible to Yes . If your app simply provides resources for other apps
to use, there may be no reason for it to be visible.
• Set Template to barebones . The barebones template contains sample
navigation and the minimal configuration required by an app. The sample_
app template contains many example dashboards and configurations.
After clicking on Save , we can now visit our app by going to Manager | Apps ,
in the App menu, and in the Home app.
Now that we have our app, we can create searches and dashboards, and maintain
them in our app. The simplest way to ensure that your objects end up in your app
is to verify that the app banner is correct before creating objects or before entering
the Splunk Manager. Our app banner looks like this:
Create a dashboard called Errors using the following searches (refer back to
Chapter 4 , Simple XML Dashboards , for detailed instructions):
error sourcetype="impl_splunk_gen" | timechart count by user
error sourcetype="impl_splunk_gen" | top user
error sourcetype="impl_splunk_gen" | top logger