Covid19

This app is updated about once per day. It contains a snapshot of the latest data from Johns Hopkins University's CSSE group's Covid19 page. ( https://github.com/CSSEGISandData/COVID-19/tree/master/csse_covid_19_data ). As such no setup is required after install - after installation you will be able to fully use the entire app. NOTE - You will first need to install the "Canary" app and the "Sideview Utils" app, also available on Splunkbase. They won’t run any scheduled searches or use any resources or cause any trouble. Nor will installing any of these apps earn you any email from us or from anyone else. This app's focus is allowing anyone to keep up to date of the development of the Covid19 pandemic. Specifically it allows you to track and compare statistics split by countries, provinces and states. You choose which countries, states and provinces you are interested in, and which statistics you want to chart. In a nutshell it will give you a way to short circuit many Covid19 discussions by saying "you know I think we can just go look at this stuff and see for ourselves." 2 requests 1) the selfish one -- please consider sending me an email to say hi. It was a fairly large amount of work to create this app, and even tiny anecdotes of people using it does make my day. 2) IF YOU INSTALL THIS APP, PLEASE DO TRY TO UPDATE IT REGULARLY. It does not fetch new data automatically, instead you must update it to get new data. However, having said that, if you do feel somewhat comfortable running a python script from the shell, there are two ways to update the data without updating the entire app version. 1) On a smaller or more standalone instance (or on a wild-west non-SHC but distsearch instance), you can log into the SH host, cd to etc/apps/covid19_sideview/bin and run splunk cmd python refresh.py and that script will reach out to the internet refresh the three datasources. (I'm pretending splunk is in PATH although this might not be true on your host) 2) You can set up a dev instance of the app on your laptop, do #1 above, and then the end result of that is that you get new slightly larger copies of three csv files in etc/apps/covid19_sideview/lookups. Deploy those lookups to your production instance and the end result is the same.