Want to get insights into which business units are consuming your Splunk license? Look no further than the Splunk App for Chargeback. The Splunk App for Chargeback provides an easy-to-use experience to analyze how internal business units are leveraging Splunk. I had a chance to chat with AK Khamis, the original author of the app, at Splunk Tech Summit to give us more insight into the app’s capabilities.

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hey everyone we’re out here at the Splunk Tech Summit been chatting with AK here about chargeback app can you tell me some more about what that app does and how people use it sounds good so Jason basically I created this app for customers um Spong customers that needs to understand how their business users actually using and utilizing and consuming this spank license itself whether it’s un just license model or VC or even on Prem vcpu or uh infrastructure type licensing so customers kind of needed to understand that um from a business perspective so the app actually has what we call the business hierarchy you start by building that and at that point you’ll start seeing users and apps translating into a business unit structure and so you have drill down capability you know what business units are actually using smun how much of smun they’re using and you can drilled down all the way down to the user with additional details so you can have the full understanding of how Spong is being consumed and used and utilize at at the at at your um at your um company basically so you talk about these these business units how do you get that information to Splunk understands what business unit is what great question so we have the uh the concept of uh um um enrichment principes so spunk as a as a product has account concept of apps uh we have users that would log to the platform and we have uh the concept of jobs safe searches and alerts and we have dashboards that we be people build and use so you can use for example an app I consider it as a container we can say all right app one two three anyone that uses this app whether they’re doing using it to run a dash or execute a schedule job we can use that as a container we can relate that to a business unit so anybody that access this app run anything from it we will register that usage and start associating it with that particular business un so it’s really not difficult to get up and running but we do recommend that you get some help maybe from ODS you know if you have that option which is on demand Services we highly recommend that to get you up and going but once you get the hang of it you would love it it would be simple it’s not intimidating and you got a lot of examples and a docum that is ships with the app itself right in the home dashboard of the app there is a document section with a PDF that you can download and it gives your walkth through instructions on how to get it up and running yeah so talking about the app and the documentation where can I go get the app yeah so the app is a free app by the way there is no charge for it whatsoever uh you can find a spank base it’s also supported by spun so if you have any problems with it please open us a for ticket but we highly recommend uh getting an OD yes uh support because you have a much better experience as a customer uh because they’re going to walk you through it and they already helped hundreds of customers uh getting this app configured so they have a lot of expertise in this space so uh yeah uh we would love for you guys to try it out and and let us know what you think awesome thanks AK appreciate it you’re welcome [Music]