Splunk Best Practices

Building a form-based dashboard

The first part of a form-based dashboard is deciding which inputs our users will care about, and usually this starts with the time range picker module.

Let's create a dashboard out of the report we made earlier from Linux df data. When we open up our report, we notice that there is a useful option in the top right-hand section Add to Dashboard:

When we click on that button we get this popup, and we have to choose a name for it:

In this case, I choose myFirstDashboard, and click Save.

On the next popup, just click