What does this app do? This app allows you to back up and use git version control to manage your Splunk knowledge objects, such as saved searches, dashboards and macros Why? Splunk (as of the time of writing in January 2019) has no native ability to use version control on its knowledge objects. This can lead to issues where an object is accidentally changed or deleted and there is no way to restore them beyond using OS-level backups, which are difficult to use in a search head cluster. How? Through the REST API, note that this allows the application to remotely backup/restore search head clusters or standalone search heads