Any apps for data-entry/indexing data within a form?

[dswanson99]

I was looking for a way to capture hosting events (maintenance, planned downtimes, unplanned downtimes, etc) and log them in splunk. I could just index a file on a server and append well formatted text to and have splunk ingest it.... Or, I could have a simple web view within splunk, fill in the data, submit it and have splunk index it. The latter seems a bit nicer.

[s2_splunk]

I would look into the App KVStore to implement this. Walk through the tutorial here and see if that meets your needs for your use case.

[jplumsdaine22]

Yep either seems good! What specifically is your question? We generally don't do general discussion in this forum. Have a look at https://answers.splunk.com/page/faq.html

That said if you have specific questions about either method please feel free to ask!

[dswanson99]

I thought I've seen other people ask 'is there an app for____', which is what I thought i was asking. Is that not appropriate?

[jplumsdaine22]

Ah yes fair enough. Your title is a pretty clear question . I just couldn't quite tell what you were asking in the question text itself 🙂 My bad.