Build Your Own Splunk App

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Introduction and Overview

Lecture 1: Introduction

Lecture 2: E-Book and Slides

Lecture 3: Final App Overview

Lecture 4: Modular Input Overview

Chapter 2: Setting Up the App

Lecture 1: Getting Node.js Installed and Obtaining your Marvel Comics API Keys

Lecture 2: Using NPM to Install Your App Dependencies

Lecture 3: Installing the Final Version of the App from Github

Chapter 3: Side Quests

Lecture 1: Caching In Splunk & Defining $SPLUNK_HOME

Lecture 2: Defining $SPLUNK_HOME

Chapter 4: Overview of What Inputs Are In Splunk

Lecture 1: Overview of Inputs

Chapter 5: Setting Up Initial Files for First Modular Input

Lecture 1: Setting Up CMD and SH files for Modular Inputs

Lecture 2: Defining the inputs.conf.spec File

Chapter 6: Logging and Debugging

Lecture 1: The Basics of Logging and Debugging in Splunk

Chapter 7: Building the Marvel Characters Modular Input

Lecture 1: Testing our Character Data

Lecture 2: Character Modular Input: The Basics

Lecture 3: Building Out the getScheme Function

Lecture 4: Building Out the validateInput Function

Lecture 5: Building Out the streamEvents Function

Chapter 8: Building the Marvel Comics Modular Input

Lecture 1: Settings up the CMD and SH Files for the Marvel Comics Modular Input

Lecture 2: Testing our Comic Data

Lecture 3: Building the Comic Modular Input

Lecture 4: Fixing a Checkpoint File Bug

Chapter 9: Building a Custom Setup Page

Lecture 1: High Level Overview

Lecture 2: Creating the Initial Files

Lecture 3: Creating the Templates

Lecture 4: Adding Third Party Dependencies

Lecture 5: Building Out setup.js

Lecture 6: Modifying the SetupView.js File

Lecture 7: Creating the Model

Lecture 8: Modifying the SettingsView.js File

Lecture 9: Addings Submit Functionality to SettingsView.js

Lecture 10: Building Out Form Validation

Lecture 11: Saving the API Keys

Lecture 12: Adding a Configured and Un-configured State

Lecture 13: Modifying the Settings Template (index.html)

Lecture 14: Finalizing the SetupView Functionality

Lecture 15: Adding Style

Chapter 10: Modify Modular Inputs to Pull API Keys

Lecture 1: Build Out marvel_passwords.js

Lecture 2: Use the GetPasswords Function

Chapter 11: Building the Comics and Characters Dashboards

Lecture 1: Building the Characters Dashboard

Lecture 2: Building the Comics Dashboard

Lecture 3: Adding Styles to the Characters Dashboard

Lecture 4: Adding JavaScript to the Characters Dashboard Part 1

Lecture 5: Adding JavaScript to the Characters Dashboard Part 2

Lecture 6: Adding JavaScript to the Comics Dashboard

Chapter 12: Final Steps

Lecture 1: Modifying the App's Navigation Style

Lecture 2: Adding a README File

Lecture 3: Intro to AppInspect

Lecture 4: Using AppInspect