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Implementing Splunk (Update)

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Implementing Splunk (Update)

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Implementing Splunk Second Edition
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Converting the panel to a report


You may want to convert your dashboard panel (that is powered by an inline search) to a Splunk report, so that it can have some of the advantages that report-based panels have over inline-search-powered panels, such as faster loading times due to report acceleration.

In the following screenshot, I have clicked on Convert to Report and added a Report Title and Description on the Convert to Report dialog:

Now our dashboard panel is based upon a Splunk report:

Notice how our magnifying icon has changed? It is not the Search Report icon. Let's click on it:

If we select Prior Year Forecasting Events (which is what we named the report), we get a confirmation:

Of course, as you can see, Splunk allows us more options for our dashboard panel, such as: View, Open in Search, Clone (back) to an Inline Search, Select a New Report, and Use Report's Formatting for this Content. Perhaps a favorite is View which opens the panel as a full-featured Splunk report:

Moving on, we've...