Splunk apps are essential for maximizing the value of your Splunk Experience. Whether you’re using the default apps that come with Splunk, premium apps like Enterprise Security or IT Service Intelligence, or our popular third-party apps on Splunkbase, the extensible Splunk Platform consistently delivers innovation at scale to enterprises worldwide.  To ensure the apps you rely on meet the highest quality standards, we’re introducing new governance rules to Splunkbase, our app marketplace. These guidelines are designed to give you confidence that the apps you download will seamlessly integrate with your environment, operate securely, and scale with your business needs.  Splunkbase has been a cornerstone of our ecosystem for over a decade, hosting over 3000 apps at its peak. While we prioritized growth of the marketplace and low-friction application listing and the Splunk Developer Community was eager to contribute to that, we've heard customer feedback that additional quality controls are needed to further enhance the reliability of apps and developer commitment to continued maintenance and upgrade. In response to insights from both our customers and the developer community, we're implementing several immediate steps to improve the quality of the apps on Splunkbase:  Early this year, we introduced and later enforced our first set of governance standards:  Apps must be compatible with at least 1 currently supported version of Splunk Apps must be updated once every 24 months.  These standards are designed to ensure that apps on Splunkbase are actively maintained by developers and do not fall into a state of neglect. After enforcing these guidelines, we archived approximately 900 apps from Splunkbase. Developers who wished to update and unarchive their apps were able to do so by adhering to the new standards and releasing updated versions. This is the first to uphold and improve Splunkbase app quality. Over the next year, we plan to progressively roll out additional governance standards to further enhance the experience h of finding, installing, and using apps on Splunkbase. Alongside these new standards, we are committed to providing developers with enhanced tooling that will make compliance with these rules as simple and seamless as possible.   Have questions? Please reach out to us on the #appdev Splunk Slack channel. Not a member yet? Join us on Slack today! ... View more

Today, we're unveiling a revamped integration between Splunk Answers and Splunkbase, designed to elevate your experience with Splunkbase apps. Now, each Splunkbase app will feature its own dedicated 'product page' on Splunk Answers.      This new layout simplifies app-specific conversations, making it easier than ever for customers, developers, partners, and Splunkers to collaborate and solve challenges. About Splunkbase: Splunkbase is a marketplace where Splunk customers can download apps for the Splunk Cloud Platform or Splunk Enterprise environment, or Splunk SOAR. Developers can also upload their own Splunk Enterprise and Splunk Cloud Platform apps to share them with the Splunk community. About Splunk Answers: Splunk Answers is a discussion forum for the Splunk community to engage in dialogue regarding Splunk. It serves as a knowledge base to help customers engage with each other, Splunk employees, and app developers. This integration improves the experience between two key tools used by the community.  This integration offers three key benefits: First, customers will be able to easily find a knowledge base of previously asked and answered questions regarding specific apps, allowing faster self-service issue resolution. Second, developers will be able to communicate directly with users of their apps, enabling better asynchronous troubleshooting of issues. Third, developers will be able to source feedback from the discussions to educate any future enhancements to their apps.  The best part? In order to take advantage of this integration, developers do not need to do anything! App listings will automatically be updated to point to new Splunk Answers app discussions. (Note: when creating a new listing, it may take up to 24 hrs to create a new corresponding Splunk Answers app discussion. Upon initial creation, the app listing will temporarily point to the generic All Apps and Add-Ons page.) We hope this new functionality makes it easier to use and extend Splunk. For questions and comments, reach out to splunkbase-admin@splunk.com or community@splunk.com. ... View more