Using Google Maps

Now, let's do a similar search in the Google Maps app. Choose Google Maps from the App menu. The interface looks like the standard search interface, but with a map instead of an event listing. Let's try this remarkably similar (but not identical) query using a lookup provided in the Google Maps app:

sourcetype="impl_splunk_ips" 
| lookup geo ip 

The map generated looks like this:

Unsurprisingly, most of the traffic to this little site came from the author's house in Austin, Texas. We'll use the Google Maps app for something more interesting in Chapter 8, Building Advanced Dashboards.

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