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Splunk Best Practices

You're reading from   Splunk Best Practices Operational intelligent made simpler

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781785281396
Length 244 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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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:

Building a form-based dashboard

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

Building a form-based dashboard

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

On the next popup, just click View Dashboard and Splunk will take you right to it.

Now we understand that our report gives us data for a single day on all machines, and some of our users would like to be able to see data for last week as well, as only a single host is experiencing errors.

The easiest way to do this is by adding the time range picker, and a Text module, then set their tokens to be passed down to the original search. This will allow the user to select the...

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