Blogs: Olexandr Prokhorenko

I am happy to announce a new feature on Splunkbase – direct installs from an app’s Splunkbase page into Splunk.  No more downloads and messing with files.  Just click “Install into Splunk” button and your Splunk instance will automatically pick up the App from Splunkbase and install it.

It’s pretty easy.  To enable this feature, go to Splunkbase, open your user’s profile, click on “Edit users settings” – “Edit profile“.  You will be able to see new input field there, “Splunk Instance“. Note that the Splunk instance  that you specify in this field  can reside in a closed network, and it does not need to have Internet access, but your local computer must be able to access it.  Also,…

Dear Splunk app developers,

We need your help to make Splunkbase better.

You want access to the people downloading your apps, and we want to give it to you. But first — we need your feedback to ensure we deliver the right set of download and lead statistics for your Splunkbase apps.

Our goal is to provide you with statistics that will help you to better understand and approach your target market, thus, it’s very important for us to clearly define the functionality that will be the most useful.

Please take 10 minutes (or less) to complete this survey: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/sb-downloads-info

We greatly appreciate your feedback. If you have any questions please feel free to contact me,…

Splunkbase has a new feature:  Star Ratings for apps!

Splunkbase now has 229 apps and add-ons (and growing!), and it’s time for a better way for our users to see the quality of a given app at a glance. The solution? Rate your favorite apps by assigning them a star rating.

You don’t have to write a text review of an app to rate it (although we’d really appreciate your honest feedback). Just hover your mouse over the number of stars you want to give an app and click.  That’s it!

If you decide to also post a review, you will see your star rating next to the review.  If you change your mind later, you…

I am happy to announce a new feature available on Splunkbase – “Contact Me” button.

Many of our users have questions related to apps. And while many common questions are being asked and answered in a timely manner on Splunk Answers, we see a solid demand from users to be able to contact app authors directly.

Now every app author can let his users to contact him (or her). In fact, you do not even need to be an app author (although, highly appreciated!). If you are an active user in our community and find it useful to allow users to contact you, you can encourage people to contact you directly.

To do this, please login to your…