Adding a Sankey diagram of web hits

As you have seen from the other recipes throughout the book, you have used many of the normal everyday visualizations commonly seen in spreadsheets and presentations. As data intelligence tools such as Splunk push the boundaries of getting data into a user's hands, there is a need to deliver and represent data using new and unique visualizations.

This recipe will show you how to install the Sankey diagram visualization add-on and create a custom visualization of relationships between web page hits and average bytes transferred, which will be populated as a new dashboard in the Operational Intelligence application.

Getting ready

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 language. Some basic knowledge of JavaScript is recommended.

You will also need to download...