topic Re: dynamic panel creation in Dashboards & Visualizations

dynamic panel creation

VI371887 — Wed, 21 Mar 2018 08:25:08 GMT

Hi all need some help with dashboards..
does splunk supports creation of dashboard panels dynamically.

let's say you have 3 Virtual machines, each with one panel showing cpu, memory, now if a new machine is introduced the splunk should automatically create a similar panel for newly introduced virtual machine or jvm.

Re: dynamic panel creation

tiagofbmm — Wed, 21 Mar 2018 08:34:12 GMT

Yes you can do that using the trellis:

In the following example you will get one panel per each of the sourcetype values existent in the search. So if a new one appears, then you'll get one more panel.

Copy the example and test it yourself. Let me know if it is what you are looking for

<dashboard>
  <label>Trellis</label>
  <row>
    <panel>
      <single>
        <search>
          <query>index=_internal | stats count by sourcetype</query>
          <earliest>-24h@h</earliest>
          <latest>now</latest>
        </search>
        <option name="drilldown">none</option>
        <option name="refresh.display">progressbar</option>
        <option name="trellis.enabled">1</option>
        <option name="trellis.size">small</option>
        <option name="trellis.splitBy">sourcetype</option>
      </single>
    </panel>
  </row>
</dashboard>

Re: dynamic panel creation

VI371887 — Wed, 21 Mar 2018 09:12:19 GMT

My organization has Splunk 6.5.2 and as per trellis about series, it was debuted 6.6 version.
hence I am unable to test this out.

Thanks for the quick response.