topic Re: Automatically Refresh Dashboard in Dashboards & Visualizations

Automatically Refresh Dashboard

philallen1 — Mon, 16 Sep 2013 15:51:57 GMT

The xml for my Dashboard consists of multiple chart tags within a dashboard tag. What can I add to it to make the Dashboard automatically refresh? I don't have a view tag to add the refresh parameter in?

dashboard
    chart
    /chart
    chart
    /chart
/dashboard

I'm sure there is a simple solution to this, but I can't figure it out to save my life.

Thanks in advance

Re: Automatically Refresh Dashboard

jonuwz — Mon, 16 Sep 2013 18:10:26 GMT

answer here

Use the refresh attribute to set how frequently, in seconds, to refresh the dashboard.

For example, <dashboard refresh="30"> sets the refresh rate to 30 seconds.

Re: Automatically Refresh Dashboard

philallen1 — Tue, 17 Sep 2013 09:23:09 GMT

Thanks jonuwz. That works.

Out of interest, do you know how I can make individual charts refresh, rather than the whole page? If it is something simple, like adding in a 'refresh' parameter into their tags, then great. If it is more complicated than that, then I will pose the question separately.

Re: Automatically Refresh Dashboard

jonuwz — Tue, 17 Sep 2013 12:17:48 GMT

Yes. But not in simple XML. See here

For non-saved searched, the answer is quite simple.
For saved searches, its a bit more complicated - I posted an answer of at the bottom of the link that accomodates this.

Re: Automatically Refresh Dashboard

sherm77 — Thu, 16 Oct 2014 18:53:07 GMT

Here is the reference page for the different options for Simple XML: http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/latest/Viz/PanelreferenceforSimplifiedXML

Do a search in the page for "refresh" in this page and you'll find 48 occurrences. The answer by @jonuwz is still accurate in 6.1.4, but there are more options in Simple XML in the newer versions, but they aren't all the same, so check out the options.

This is how you get a chart to refresh every 10 seconds.. IMHO, this looks a whole lot better than the entire page refreshing. You can even stagger the refreshes so all of the panels don't go blank at the same time. Also take in consideration how long it takes to load the individual panels.

Re: Automatically Refresh Dashboard

psneathen — Wed, 23 Dec 2015 00:03:05 GMT

This worked great for us. Thank you.

Re: Automatically Refresh Dashboard

tred23 — Mon, 05 Dec 2016 12:50:54 GMT

Thank you. This worked for me.

Re: Automatically Refresh Dashboard

ro_mc — Tue, 23 Nov 2021 23:48:34 GMT

Adding to sherm77's response, you can set the refresh type and refresh interval for individual panels using the <search> element.

The <refreshType> element is either 'interval' or 'delay'. A value of 'interval' means a <refresh> value of 30 seconds causes a refresh every 30 seconds regardless of the state of the search. A value of 'delay' means the 30 second countdown only begins once the search has completed.

Example Usage:

<form> <row> <panel> <table> <search> <query> ... </query> <earliest>-60m@m</earliest> <latest>now</latest> <refresh>60</refresh> <refreshType>delay</refreshType> </search> </table> </panel> </row> </form>

Re: Automatically Refresh Dashboard

maheshkk444 — Wed, 24 Nov 2021 02:30:03 GMT

Use refresh attribute in form tag, and attribute value is in seconds.

<form refresh="15">

Dashboard will auto refresh in 15 seconds.