As we saw in the Adding a force-directed graph of web hits and Adding a calendar heatmap of product purchases recipes, visualizing data with charts can be a great way to gain visibility of the meaning of your data. But sometimes, due to the nature and the type of data, there are cases where a table is the easiest way to represent it visually. In this case, we can get some added benefits by highlighting specific cells based on some logic that we can control.
This recipe will show you how to create a new dashboard panel containing a table of purchase locations for the past week, highlight a cell based on the average purchase price, and place it in the Operational Intelligence application.
To step through this recipe, you will need a running Splunk Enterprise server, with the sample data loaded from Chapter 1, Play Time – Getting Data In. You should be familiar with navigating the Splunk user interface and using the Splunk search...