Splunk 7.x Quick Start Guide

Event-handlers

The last feature I should introduce (although there are many others, but space prevents me from mentioning them all) is event-handlers, which let you listen for and define responses to state changes and behavior, such as a mouse click or input form selection in a dashboard. This is accomplished using the <change> and <condition> elements in Simple XML within a control. The best explanation is an example, such as the following code, which creates a radio control to let you hide or display the Metrics Throughput panel. There are two <condition> elements that capture any changes to a new radio setting: one sets the token, the other unsets the show_panel token, which is used with a depends attribute in the <panel> element to control ...