Downloading the Google Maps Add-On

[chaninphx]

Hi i am a noob to splunk. Can someone tell me how or where to point me to for downloading the google maps add on for splunk. After downloading the folder I am stuck on what I should do next.

[woodcock]

I am assuming that you are not using a Deployment Server (yet) or other configuration management tool for your Search Head so all you need to do is go to Apps -> Manage apps -> Browse more apps -> Search for "Google Maps" -> Install and do it directly from Splunkbase -> Search Head without saving to a file at all. If you really would like to do it from a file, then instead of Browse more apps, select Install app from file.

[mattymo · Accepted solution]

Hi chaninphx!

Welcome to Splunk!

Once you download an App (think dashboards, vizualizations, alert actions, etc) or Technical add-on ( aka TA, think data collection and parsing logic, etc) you can install with these steps, assuming you are on a "standalone" instance of Splunk. ie you installed in on your laptop,

https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/AddOns/released/Overview/Singleserverinstall

If you are in a 'distributed environment", the instructions are here:

https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/AddOns/released/Overview/Distributedinstall

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