In Splunk, each panel within a dashboard can be one of a series of types. Designing your dashboard virtually before you implement it, leveraging some of these panels, is very helpful in creating optimized performance. The architecture of your dashboard and which search queries you decide to use directly relate to the performance of your dashboard.
This is a search panel with a single query in it that searches raw data each time the dashboard loads. This is usually the fastest way of creating dashboards; however, the more of these panels you add to your dashboard, the slower the performance.
These are also sometimes referred to as post-process panels. These panels reference a single root search hidden within the XML source code of the page and then perform a function such as stats or timechart on the results. This assists performance by allowing the dashboard to load by running only a single search to populate...