Dashboard Creation with Dashboard Studio

Applicability

Splunk Enterprise Splunk Cloud

Description

The Splunk Dashboard Studio is a useful tool that provides easy management of organizational strategies and an efficient, attractive way to display relevant data.

Investigation

The tutorial consists in various parts to get familiarized with specific elements of the tool. However, the most relevant documents to get started with the dashboard creation are listed below:

• Part 1: Getting started with the Splunk Dashboard Studio tutorial This part explains the usage for Dashboard Studio and starts displaying a series of hyperlinks that help to complete a search tutorial. If desired, this tutorial can be followed by clicking each hyperlink shown in this screen.
• Part 2: Create a dashboard The tools to select the dashboard creation are explained in detail step by step. The visual editor, the source code editor, and the set up of the dashboard canvas are part of this tutorial. Please Note: The source code for Splunk Dashboard Studio is JSON-based.
• Part 3: Add a table with column formatting Column formatting starts with table creation and adding elements such as columns, precision, dynamic coloring, range, global formatting and others.
• Part 4: Add a pie chart visualization Appeareance, labels and other visualization elements are explained in this part.
• Part 5: Add a column chart Column chart creation helps with the visual elements of the data organization in a vertical position if desired.
•  Part 6: Add a single value visualization using a chain search A chain search is a more complete way to display chart visualization because it combines elements that are grouped in a total value.
• Part 7: Add a map It helps creating a chart visualization by country or region.
• Part 8: Add an input Dashboard control, categorization, filtering and searching method are described in this part.
• Part 9: Add a drilldown Set a token to point out to specific data of the chart and give a better visual impression when searching and displaying data.
• Part 10: Apply customization options with dashboard default settings If multiple configuration settings will be repeated in similar charts of the dashboard, this is an excellent method to avoid creating the same chart formatting for every table and it replaces this time-consuming task in default values.
• Part 11 Polish up the dashboard Add a background for the dashboard, share and sport the dashboard to end users.

Resolution

Depending on the need and the elements used to create the dashboards, every part of the tutorial points out in the tools that will help in the dashboard creation.

Revision History

Revision	Publish Date	Comments
1.0	29-Sep-2026	Initial Release