Adding Depth to Dashboards

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3 IntroducCon StaCc vs Dynamic Dashboards Demo Step- by- Step ImplementaCon Q&A Agenda 3

4 IntroducCon Splunker since 2014 Previously worked in operacons for large SaaS company 5 years in escalacon support before Splunk 2 years using Splunk I liked the product so much I joined the company! 4

5 A Quick Poll New to Splunk? Experience w/ Simple XML? Experience w/ Advanced XML? 5

6 PerspecCve is Key 6

7 PerspecCve is Key 7

8 StaCc vs Dynamic Dashboards StaCc Dashboards Provides execucve summaries Answers specific quescons ê What are my top? ê What s the Cmeline of accvity for? Dynamic Dashboards Same as above and more Pivot and answer subsequent quescons ê Given my seleccon here, tell me more about View the same dataset from mulcple angles 8

9 Use Case Mobile ApplicaCons

10 One Page Load = Many Network Calls Back office servers Slow page loads = unhappy customer Content Deliver Networks Images videos 10

11 Use Case - IntroducCon Page load Cmes are criccal One page load may involve retrieving informacon from mulcple sources Problem could exist in mobile app, network, or back- office OperaConal SLAs 11

12 Disclaimers Not all visual capabilices will be discussed SimpleXML only Searches are out of scope Limited implementacon 12

13 Demo

14 How it Works

15 Select a Row Other panels are hidden 15

16 Show Details for Selected View 16

17 Select a Subset of Timerange 17

18 Tokens A Primer Variables that dynamically pass informacon within & between dashboards AcCon on one panel can drive behavior in another panel Tokens can be used to pass informacon into another URL ê Another Splunk dashboard ê Page outside Splunk altogether Set the token: Use the token: <drilldown> <set token= my_new_token">$row.this_field$</set> </drilldown> <search> <query>sourcetype=mysourcetype this_field=$my_new_token$ </search> 18

19 Tokens Set Tokens Tokens U?lized currentview seleccon.earliest seleccon.latest currentview currentview seleccon.earliest seleccon.latest 19

20 Walkthrough 20

21 Select Row, Set Token 21

22 Select Row, Set Token 22

23 Select Row, Set Token 23

24 Select Subset of Timerange 24

25 Select Subset of Timerange 25

26 Use Selected Timerange 26

27 Use Selected Timerange 27

28 Conclusion Greater depth in dashboards - > greater insight SimpleXML: powerful capabilices for the non- UI expert Work with your users Which quescons would they ask next? 28

29 AddiConal Reading Get the code hups://github.com/sirmonkey/conf2015 Splunk Docs hup://docs.splunk.com/documentacon/splunk/6.2.5/viz/ VisualizaConreference Dashboard examples app hups://splunkbase.splunk.com/app/1603/ Level up: Satoshi s conf talk Enhancing Dashboards with Javascript! Wed 12:15 - > 1pm (Breakout 9) 29

30 QuesCons?

31 THANK YOU

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