Chapter 5. Progressive Dashboards
This chapter will explain the default Splunk dashboard and then expand on the advanced features offered by Splunk for making business-effective dashboards.
In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:
- Creating effective dashboards
- Using panels
- XML
- Searching
- Dynamic drilldowns
- Real-time solutions
Creating effective dashboards
Splunk makes it easy to build and edit dashboards without writing a single line of code. However, the question is what is a dashboard?
Note
A dashboard provides a visual interface that displays the key indicators to users in a single view. This view—called a dashboard—is designed to consolidate numerous areas of interest in order to increase the visibility of critical information.
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