Dashboard controls
In this section, we will learn about various control options related to display, input, and panel of the Splunk dashboard. We will learn the use of various dashboard controls, with examples, and then we will also learn how to implement the respective controls on Splunk.
HTML dashboard
We are already aware how to create dashboards on Splunk. The Splunk dashboards are by default in XML format, but Splunk supports the feature to convert the Simple XML dashboard to an HTML dashboard. The features that are not available under Simple XML can be implemented by converting the dashboard to HTML, which is based on the SplunkJS component of Splunk Web framework.
The following are the steps to be followed to convert any simple XML dashboard to an HTML dashboard:
On any XML dashboard which is to be converted or exported into an HTML dashboard, click on the Edit button.
From the Edit menu, choose the Convert to HTML option.
While converting to HTML, two options are available: either to create...
