topic How to produce a dynamic number of panels in a dashboard based on a form input? in Dashboards & Visualizations

How to produce a dynamic number of panels in a dashboard based on a form input?

splunk403 — Tue, 21 Mar 2017 23:08:09 GMT

Need a sample code to produce a dynamic number of panels in a dashboard based on a form input. Anybody successful in achieving it?

Thanks

Re: How to produce a dynamic number of panels in a dashboard based on a form input?

adonio — Wed, 22 Mar 2017 00:32:41 GMT

Can you elaborate on the use case? what exactly are you trying to achieve?
I dont think the feature you are asking for exists.

Re: How to produce a dynamic number of panels in a dashboard based on a form input?

MuS — Wed, 22 Mar 2017 00:51:56 GMT

HI splunk403,

there is a way you can selectively show or hide panels based on the drop down selection.
Take this run everywhere dashboard to see how the panels change based on the drop down section:

<form>
  <label>Show panels dynamically based on drop down selection</label>
  <description>https://answers.splunk.com/answers/513020/how-to-produce-a-dynamic-number-of-panels-in-a-das-2.html</description>
  <search id="internal_data">
    <query>index=_internal earliest=-1h@h latest=now | table _time, source, sourcetype, host</query>
  </search>
  <fieldset submitButton="false">
    <input type="dropdown" token="category" searchWhenChanged="true">
      <label>select panel to show:</label>
      <choice value="1">Panel1</choice>
      <choice value="2">Panel2</choice>
      <choice value="3">Panel3</choice>
      <default>1</default>
      <change>
        <condition value="1">
          <unset token="panel2"></unset>
          <unset token="panel3"></unset>
          <set token="panel1"></set>
        </condition>
        <condition value="2">
          <unset token="panel1"></unset>
          <unset token="panel3"></unset>
          <set token="panel2"></set>
        </condition>
        <condition value="3">
          <unset token="panel1"></unset>
          <unset token="panel2"></unset>
          <set token="panel3"></set>
        </condition>
      </change>
    </input>
  </fieldset>
  <row depends="$panel1$">
    <panel>
      <title>Panel 1</title>
      <chart>
        <search base="internal_data">
          <query>|stats count by host</query>
        </search>
        <option name="charting.chart">column</option>
      </chart>
    </panel>
  </row>
  <row depends="$panel2$">
    <panel>
      <title>Panel 2</title>
      <chart>
        <search base="internal_data">
          <query>|stats count by source</query>
        </search>
        <option name="charting.chart">column</option>
      </chart>
    </panel>
  </row>
  <row depends="$panel3$">
    <panel>
      <title>Panel 3</title>
      <chart>
        <search base="internal_data">
          <query>|stats count by sourcetype</query>
        </search>
        <option name="charting.chart">pie</option>
      </chart>
      <chart>
        <search base="internal_data">
          <query>|stats count by host</query>
        </search>
        <option name="charting.chart">column</option>
      </chart>
    </panel>
  </row>
</form>

Hope this helps ...

cheers, MuS

Re: How to produce a dynamic number of panels in a dashboard based on a form input?

adonio — Wed, 22 Mar 2017 12:30:09 GMT

MuS thanks! I learned something new today 🙂

Re: How to produce a dynamic number of panels in a dashboard based on a form input?

splunk403 — Wed, 22 Mar 2017 14:32:52 GMT

For a server i am creating two panels for two of its resouces .Now the requirement is when i select Frame(group of servers) it has to display the two panels for each of the server .

Number of servers in a frame will be dyanmic ,so when I select a frame the number of display panels will be different .

Hope this helps .

Thanks

Re: How to produce a dynamic number of panels in a dashboard based on a form input?

splunk403 — Wed, 22 Mar 2017 14:37:03 GMT

Thanks MuS .This help when the number panels are predefined .

Any clue for dynamics number of panels .

Re: How to produce a dynamic number of panels in a dashboard based on a form input?

splunk403 — Wed, 22 Mar 2017 14:38:30 GMT

Moreover ,i tried referring to below links which suggested to use web-frameworks .So was just looking for a sample code .

https://answers.splunk.com/answers/233458/is-it-possible-to-dynamically-create-multiple-pane.html?utm_source=typeahead&utm_medium=newquestion&utm_campaign=no_votes_sort_relev

https://answers.splunk.com/answers/11813/how-to-dynamically-generate-a-dashboard-in-which-the-of-panels-is-equal-to-the-of-hosts.html

https://answers.splunk.com/answers/334174/how-to-produce-a-dynamic-number-of-panels-in-a-das.html

Re: How to produce a dynamic number of panels in a dashboard based on a form input?

MuS — Wed, 22 Mar 2017 16:21:29 GMT

For SimpleXML it is predefined, but I'm sure you can do it as you mentioned using the web framework.

My two cents: I would simply use a table panel (maybe with some overlay and spark line?) to show the two metrics for the various numbers of servers.

Re: How to produce a dynamic number of panels in a dashboard based on a form input?

splunk403 — Thu, 23 Mar 2017 17:44:44 GMT

Any clue how to do it ?