From our previous lectures, we have seen there are apps which can be added to Splunk, which adds tremendous
value to our Splunk installation.
Let's see how we can download some of this app to download apps for Splunk.
You can click on the links provided as part of this document, or it can directly type in app store
splunk dot com or Splunk base Splunk dot com.
As you click on those links, you'll be redirected or taken into this site.
They're just blank and you have lots of application which are categorized based on technology, vendor,
author or industry.
There are a wide variety of apps that are freely available for Splunk, which makes it very dynamic
and.
You can get any kind of apps on this as of now, because the community is such fast evolving, a lot
of new apps that are being put into this site almost like every week this is maintained by Splunk,
but it has been used widely by Splunk all around the world who like exchange information, create apps,
upload the apps, interact with the users, troubleshoot apps.
And this information used by the app developers make their app more.
Usable by a wide variety of industries.
Let's browse through some of the apps.
Will browse like using some keywords.
Like Linux, any Linux app or Linux technology app.
Let's see what pops up.
I got one Splunk app for Linux Linux audit the.
These are some of the Linux technology based apps.
Similarly, you can select based on the products.
Let's say we want only which supports Splunk and address the categories based on the industry which
you want to choose and the technology, the organization.
Let's go back to home and let's try to filter out based on technologies.
Let's say I need security fraud and compliance apps.
You can see everything related to security and others.
And the most common apps will be under featured apps, which are most commonly used by many of the organization.
That was a category.
Now we'll go to technology where you can see based on specific technology, which people are using.
There is a menu for Splunk Build app.
These are authorized and you get official support from Splunk and you can also use this app tags while
asking questions in the answers towards Blackcomb.
Basically this is where you find all the applications and the add ons related to your Splunk environment.
Let's try to download some of them now.
Let's see.
Let us try a Windows app.
There is an app for Windows which is most common across the organization.
That was known as Splunk.
App for Windows infrastructure.
Well.
This is the Splunk app for Windows infrastructure.
As you can see, there are many downloads and the installs.
That means it shows how many different environments are using this app.
The more downloads, the more installs, the better.
That means you have more chances of getting support or less number of issues using this app.
There is also a documentation where you can see how to deploy this app or to configure this app.
And since we have logged in already to our portal, if we click on download, it gives us a small agreement
which by default will check and we'll start downloading our app.
We have downloaded our app.
And this is how you download any app in this site.
If you're logged in, you can probably download a bunch of them at once going through.
And if you're just researching, probably it's better to browse by category or technology so that you
know what you are looking for on the most reviewed or the most installed apps will be shown on top so
that you can pick and choose the best one.