Islands of node in a sea of Big Data Glenn Block Splunk Dev Platform CC Image Carlota and Isabel Islands by Storm Crypt Flickr
About me
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What is Splunk? Any Machine Data HA Indexes and Storage Search and Investigation Proactive Monitoring Operational Visibility Real-time Business Insights Commodity Servers Online Services Web Services Servers Security GPS Location Storage Desktops Networks Packaged Applications Custom Applications Messaging Telecoms Online Shopping Cart Web Clickstreams Databases Energy Meters Call Detail Records Smartphones and Devices RFID
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node in the box
Let's generate some PDFs 9
How we do it 10 node JSON pdfchart jsdom
Why node? 11 We needed an easy way to convert a web page into PDF Node has modules for rendering web pages on the server (JSDOM) Node has modules for PDF generation (PDFKIT)
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Why node? 16 We needed a mobile-friendly façade for our non-mobile friendly API The server is heavily IO bound / async, which node is perfect for. It is easy and lightweight to spin up API servers and proxies in node. Great support for Auth as well.
17 node for integration and extensiblity
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Log directly to Splunk via TCP, UDP, HTTP Integrate search results with other applications using custom visualizations Create and run searches from other applications Splunk SDK 19 Visualize Search Manage Add/Delete Users Manage Inputs Index
node inputs 20 Public APIs Devices OS level Internal Systems Generating test data Input
Ingesting data with Socket.IO 21
Why node? 22 Inputs by their nature are heavily IO bound and async Inputs are streaming results back to Splunk and node has great support in the box for streams. It has a great ecosystem of modules It’s JavaScript!
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Where to go for More Info Tutorials, Code Samples, Getting Started, Downloads – – Support – GitHub – Twitter – or follow me: Blog –
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