Chapter 6. Visualization
In the previous chapter, you learned various important commands that can be used in Splunk over data. These Splunk commands provide data in a statistical format. Now, in this chapter, you will learn the details of the basic visualizations that can be used in Splunk to represent the data in an easy-to-understand format. You will learn data representation in terms of visualization and along with that, we will also go through how to tweak graphics as per the required format that is more understandable.
The following topics will be covered in this chapter:
- Tables
- Single value
- Charts
- Drilldown
Prerequisites – configuration settings
The Splunk command usually opens the Statistics tab by default when we run Splunk search queries over the web console. The following are generic steps to be taken to view the respective visualization% on the Splunk Web dashboard. When we run a search command on Splunk, the results are shown in the Statistics tab, as shown in the...