Introduction to Dashboards

To be successful, students must have a solid understanding of these courses:

• Intro to Splunk
• Using Fields (SUF)
• Search Optimization (SSO)

Or the following legacy courses:

• Splunk Fundamentals 1&2 (Retired)

To be successful, students are recommended (but not required) to have a solid understanding of these courses:

• Intro to Knowledge Objects
• Visualizations

This four-and-a-half hour course teaches students how to create dashboards in Dashboard Studio. Students will learn the basics of the dashboard source code, dashboard layout types, how to select a data source, and improve dashboard performance.

Topic 1 – Create a Prototype

• Describe dashboard framework
• Compare layout types
• Add visualizations
• Manage views

Topic 2 – Selecting a Data Source

• Define the dataSources stanza
• Explain how mock data is used
• Create event annotations

Topic 3 – Improving Performance

• Identify performance improvement methods
• Use tstats and an accelerated data model
• Create base and chain searches
• Set dashboard defaults