Experimenting with the new Dashboard Studio

Splunk Dashboard Studio was introduced in version 8.2x. It offers various widgets targeted at making dashboard creation easier. We will work through a simple example in this section. In our past examples, we created dashboards by using the Save As option after running a search. This time, we will use the new Dashboard Studio instead:

1. First, open the Search and Reporting app and click Dashboards on the navigation bar.
2. Click the green Create New Dashboard button. We will see that there are two options for building a dashboard:
   • Classic dashboards: The traditional method that we reviewed in the first few sections of this chapter
   • Dashboard studio: A new builder that creates visually-rich, customizable dashboards

Enter the following values:

• Dashboard title: Botsv1
• Description: Creating a dashboard using Dashboard Studio
• Permissions: Shared in App
• How do you want to build your dashboard: Dashboard Studio
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