We went through the process of creating, installing, and uninstalling applications on Splunk Enterprise. Now, we will see some examples of applications or add-ons from the Splunk app store that can be used to solve common problems:
- The Splunk add-on for the Oracle database: This add-on is available on the Splunk app store, and can be downloaded and installed on Splunk to connect with any Oracle database. Logs such as audit trails, trace files, incident, alert, listener, and other logs on the operating system where the Oracle database server is installed will be made available on Splunk, and thus, users can analyze, visualize, and create alerts on the uploaded data from the Splunk add-on for Oracle.
- Browsing history analysis: Browsing history analysis is a ready-to-use app available on the Splunk app store that can be installed and used to analyze the browsing behavior of the user on the instance on which Splunk is installed. This app scans, extracts, and analyzes history from the most popular browsers. Hence, by installing this application, users will be able to use it without any query writing and development work.
- The Splunk add-on for Microsoft Azure: This add-on can be used to connect to Microsoft Azure and to retrieve data from Azure Storage and Diagnostics into Splunk for analysis and visualizations.
- The Splunk app for web analytics: This Splunk app can generate analytics and give insight from the web logs of websites like any other analytics tools such as Google Analytics and Webtrends can. This application can be installed on Splunk Enterprise.
These were a few applications/add-ons available on the Splunk app store. There are a lot of applications and add-ons that have been created for different use cases. Splunk users can search for applications defined for various use cases, and they can download, install, and use the application as per need. The Splunk app store has applications of various categories, such as application management, IT operations, security and compliance, business analytics, and many more.
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