topic Re: Display received html file on dashboard in Dashboards & Visualizations

Display received html file on dashboard

eholz1 — Mon, 28 Jul 2025 14:53:55 GMT

Hello Splunkers!

I am using HEC to send an html file to splunk. The received event contains the html lines of code.

The html is a table with some data, and forms a table with the data. Is there a way, or how can I create a dashboard from the html text that shows the table?

Maybe another way to say this is: How can I extract the html code from the hec event, and display same on a dashboard?

Thank You So Much,

E Holz

Re: Display received html file on dashboard

livehybrid — Mon, 28 Jul 2025 16:15:45 GMT

Hi @eholz1

This is possible with some custom JS with a classic dashboard, but not yet possible with Dashboard Studio.

Rather then me pasting the whole process here, check out https://community.splunk.com/t5/Dashboards-Visualizations/Render-HTML-code-from-search-result-in-Splunk-dashboard/m-p/221935 which gives an example of how to achieve this.

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Re: Display received html file on dashboard

eholz1 — Mon, 28 Jul 2025 16:51:59 GMT

Hello There Ultra Champ,

Thanks for quick response. I will take a look at the process. Thanks again,

@eholz1

Re: Display received html file on dashboard

PickleRick — Mon, 28 Jul 2025 18:41:11 GMT

Be aware though that allowing displaying an unescaped, unsanitized HTML code from potentially unknown source is not always a best idea.

Re: Display received html file on dashboard

eholz1 — Mon, 28 Jul 2025 20:12:23 GMT

Hello PickleRick,

I now know what you mean, the demo link using "| makeresults" fails. Lucky for me the html I use seems OK,

and I do get the display of the table and the data iin the html code/file, thanks for the TIP.

@eholz1