Pivoting slowest responding web pages

In the past couple of recipes, we worked with the Application data model and added some additional reports to the Product Monitoring dashboard related to sales and customer location. In the next couple of recipes, you will begin to look at the operational health of our environment and begin creating an Operational Monitoring dashboard.

The response time of a web application is one of the most important factors in determining overall user experience and high response times could lead to lost customers, who are not prepared to deal with slow loading web pages.

In this recipe, you will use the Pivot tool to table the response times for the various web pages on our web application and identify the pages that are taking longest to load. You will add this report to a new Operational Monitoring dashboard.

Getting ready

To step through this recipe, you will need a running Splunk Enterprise server, with the sample data loaded from Chapter 1, Play Time – Getting Data...