SPLK-DYD - Dynamic Dashboards
This three-hour module is designed for power users who want to learn best practices for building dashboards in the Dashboard Studio. It focuses on creating inputs, chain searches, event annotations, and improving dashboard performance.
Please refer to course overview
Search Experts Knowledge Managers
Topic 1 - Selecting a Data Source
- Identify dataSources stanza fields
- Name search types
- Use a secondary data source
Topic 2 - Adding Inputs
- Identify types of inputs
- Describe how inputs work
- Create a dynamic input
- Add cascading inputs
Topic 3 - Improving Performance
- Identify performance improvement methods
- Use tstats and accelerated data models
- Create chain searches
- Set defaults
Topic 4 - Comparing Temporary versus Persistent Fields
- Differentiate between temporary and persistent fields
- Create temporary fields with the eval command
- Extract temporary fields with the erex and rex commands
Topic 5 - Enriching Data
- Understand how fields from lookups, calculated fields, field aliases, and field extractions enrich data
To be successful, students should have a solid understanding of the following:
- How Splunk works
- Creating Search queries
- Knowledge Objects
- The dashboard definition