Creating an Operational Intelligence dashboard

Before this chapter gets into everything that is great about visualizations, it is best to first cover the process of creating a dashboard. In this recipe, you will create a dashboard from scratch using the Splunk Web UI which we will then use for other recipes in this chapter.

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, and to have completed all of the recipes from Chapter 2, Diving into Data - Search and Report. You should be familiar with navigating the Splunk user interface.

How to do it...

Follow these steps to create an Operational Intelligence dashboard:

1. Log in to your Splunk server.
2. Select the default Search & Reporting application.
3. From the menu bar, click on the Dashboards link:

4. On the Dashboards screen, click on the Create New Dashboard button:

5. The Create New Dashboard screen will pop up. Enter Website Monitoring in...