Splunk Developer's Guide

If you are a Splunk user and want to enter the wonderful world of Splunk application development, then this book is for you. Some experience with Splunk, writing searches, and designing basic dashboards is expected.

Kyle Smith

Kyle Smith is a self-proclaimed geek and has been working with Splunk extensively since 2010. He enjoys integrating Splunk with new sources of data and types of visualizations. He has spoken numerous times at the Splunk User Conference (most recently in 2014 on lesser-known search commands) and is an active contributor to the Splunk Answers community as well as on the #splunk IRC channel. He has published several Splunk Apps and add-ons to Splunk base, the Splunk community's premier Apps and add-ons publishing platform. He has worked in both higher education and the private industry, most recently as an infrastructure analyst at a Fortune 400 company. He lives in Central Pennsylvania with his family.