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Dashboards and views in splunk :-
Dashboard in splunk
Dashboards often provide at-a-glance views of KPIs (key performance indicators) relevant to a particular objective or business process . Dashboards are useful to as they consist of multiple panels and can accumulate data from multiple datasources into one quick view.For example if you want to view the number of errors and map that against the CPU on the box at the same time, the dashboard comes in handy.
Data/logs on its own hard for us,as humans.to make sense easily and can be extremely tedious to analyze.Dashboards helps us to use splunks visualization capabilities to make our data shine. Dashboards created in splunk helps us in getting visual view of operations happening in you environment and play major role in decision making. dashboard provide means to bring together one or more reports and display them on single page
Below types of visualizations are available in splunk
· Line chart
· Column chart
· Bar chart
· Pie chart
· Scatter chart
· Single value
· Radial guage and filer guage,marker guage
· Map
· Heatmap
· Sparkline
For creating a view/ dashboard in splunk you must create a search queries which will search and fetch specific logs from splunk to represent data in dashboards. For example if you want to create a graph for number of errors in your environment then you have create error search query and then convert it to views/dashboard.Please check below video for step by step instructions for creation of dashboard in splunk
Data/logs on its own hard for us,as humans.to make sense easily and can be extremely tedious to analyze.Dashboards helps us to use splunks visualization capabilities to make our data shine. Dashboards created in splunk helps us in getting visual view of operations happening in you environment and play major role in decision making. dashboard provide means to bring together one or more reports and display them on single page
Below types of visualizations are available in splunk
· Line chart
· Column chart
· Bar chart
· Pie chart
· Scatter chart
· Single value
· Radial guage and filer guage,marker guage
· Map
· Heatmap
· Sparkline
- How to create dashboard in splunk?
For creating a view/ dashboard in splunk you must create a search queries which will search and fetch specific logs from splunk to represent data in dashboards. For example if you want to create a graph for number of errors in your environment then you have create error search query and then convert it to views/dashboard.Please check below video for step by step instructions for creation of dashboard in splunk
Splunk recommends the following workflow for designing and creating dashboards and forms.
1. Add content
Create the searches that power dashboards.
2. Design the user interface
Create and modify dashboards, forms, and panels.
3. Add interactivity
Drill down into search data.
4. Customize the dashboard
Add customized features to your dashboard.
Dashboard file location in splunk:
Dashboards are stored on your Splunk search head in xml format. You can find them in $SPLUNK_HOME/etc/apps//local/data/ui/views
You need to create .xml files for your dashboard views at above location
- Dahboards examples and xml sourcecode:
Please refer below link for dashboard examples
http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/6.2.3/Viz/BuildandeditdashboardswithSimplifiedXML
- How to Visualize your data using chart and timechart?
Timechart command in splunk is used to plot graph for your searched values.It will display chart against your mentioned field values.In below example we have serched for keyword frequent-static for airline logs.After getting result we are piping result to timechart command which will display graph for your values
- Where to learn to create and edit dashbords in splunk?
The Splunk 6.x Dashboard app delivers examples that give you a hands-on way to learn the basic concepts and tools needed to rapidly create rich dashboards using Simple XML. This new app incorporates learn-by-doing Simple XML examples, including extensions to Simple XML for further customization of layout, interactivity, and visualizations.
With the app you will learn basic Simple XML concepts and how to incorporate the built-in components. All the included examples deliver a recipe for implementing dashboard elements, beginning with the most basic and progressing to more advanced elements. Each example in the app includes an actual runtime visualization followed by a description and supporting source code.
Click here to download splunk dashboard app
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