When we create dashboards quickly, we often create dashboards with existing searches with a different field or displaying a different set of stats results. In this chapter, we will discuss how to optimize these searches for performance in a dashboard as well as how to leverage things such as reports or data models in order to speed up your load times.
In this chapter, we will discuss the following topics:
Form dashboard optimizations
Root search variables
Evaluation variables
Filter variables
Using base searches
Post-process functions
Using reports to speed up dashboards
Referencing summary results from a report
Creating a data model
Referencing a data model in your search