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Advanced Splunk

You're reading from  Advanced Splunk

Product type Book
Published in Jun 2016
Publisher
ISBN-13 9781785884351
Pages 348 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Author (1):
Ashish Kumar Tulsiram Yadav Ashish Kumar Tulsiram Yadav
Profile icon Ashish Kumar Tulsiram Yadav

Table of Contents (20) Chapters

Advanced Splunk
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgements
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. What's New in Splunk 6.3? 2. Developing an Application on Splunk 3. On-boarding Data in Splunk 4. Data Analytics 5. Advanced Data Analytics 6. Visualization 7. Advanced Visualization 8. Dashboard Customization 9. Advanced Dashboard Customization 10. Tweaking Splunk 11. Enterprise Integration with Splunk 12. What Next? Splunk 6.4 Index

Layout customization


The Splunk dashboard has the option of dragging and dropping panels from controls. Splunk automatically resizes the panel equally as per the number of panels in a row. Now, you will learn to customize the dashboard panel's width and group more than one visualization in a single panel.

Panel width

Let's first understand the need for customizing panel width explicitly when Splunk automatically resizes the panel by itself with the help of an example.

Example

In the following figure, there are three panels in a single row. Panel 1 has Statistical Table, Panel 2 has Line Chart, and Panel 3 has Single Value. Splunk's smart dashboard capability automatically resizes each panel of equal sizes in a row. In the following example, it can be seen that Panel 3 has very less information to display, whereas Panel 2 requires more space to display information properly and efficiently:

Hence, in order to make the dashboard display the required information efficiently, such as the panel that...

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