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

It's never too late to reflect on a stellar year of progress, and 2022 proved to be another exciting year for Splunkbase and our app ecosystem! Customers and developers alike are excited to participate in our growing ecosystem, and we continue to find ways to better support them. And what better way to showcase our app ecosystem than with data? The data shared in the infographic below spans a few teams at Splunk related to our apps and the ecosystem of customers and developers. Products and services that Splunk provides to our ecosystem is a critical component of what makes a successful platform. The ecosystem is comprised of a few products and services that you've probably heard of!  Splunkbase: the marketplace to find and distribute apps. AppInspect: the tool used to ensure known issues are caught during the app submission process. Developer Success: a team of app subject matter experts dedicated to ensuring apps are built to quality standards.  dev.splunk.com: documentation and resources for our developer community.  Splunk Cloud Developer Edition: a product used to provide developers a cloud stack for testing.  So why are we sharing these metrics with you? We think it's important to share the state of our app ecosystem, so that you, Splunkers, can have confidence in knowing that there is an army of passionate customers and developers out there getting value from our extensible platform. Building a platform with real network effects is HARD. It takes a lot of sustained dedication to foster a platform worth being a part of. From product teams building new features to field teams advocating for app adoption, it takes all of us to ensure customers are getting more and more value from Splunk via apps. Check it out: We look forward to keeping this tradition of sharing some key metrics with you all every year! Let us know what info you'd like to see in the future!  — Dan Hosoka, Splunkbase Principal Product Manager ... View more