A Complete Guide to Understanding the Splunk Add-on Builder

In this post, we'll walk through the ins and outs of the Splunk Add-on Builder. Not only does the Splunk Add-on Builder help users avoid common pitfalls during app development, it also validates apps according to best practices and app certification standards.  

On the app homepage, you'll see every add-on created using the Splunk Add-on Builder, along with those already installed on the instance. An Add-on Builder project is an editable add-on along with its meta data. Beyond editing capabilities, you're also able to export projects for use with other instances of Add-on Builder....


Splunk Alerts in Slack!

Here at Function1 we use Slack in order to stay in constant contact with our co-workers. If you haven't heard of Slack before, Slack is a team chat and communication tool. We use it to talk about our projects, company announcements, sports, random water cooler talk, technical questions, etc. Slack has integration built-in with a lot of services. We rely heavily on the GitHub, Asana, and Twitter integrations, but they have many others.
 
Since we do a lot of Splunk development for our own projects and our clients, we thought, "...

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