In this recipe, you will learn how to use Splunk's dashboard editor to use more efficient visualizations and organize the dashboards more efficiently. This feature was introduced in Splunk 6 and enhanced even further in Splunk 6.1.
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, and should have completed the earlier recipes in this chapter. You should also be familiar with navigating the Splunk user interface.
Follow these steps to organize the dashboards more efficiently:
Log in to your Splunk server.
Select the Operational Intelligence application.
Click on the Dashboards menu item.
You should see the Product Monitoring and Website Monitoring dashboards that we moved into the Operational Intelligence app in the previous recipe. Select the Website Monitoring dashboard, and it will be displayed.
You will notice that there...