Office Hours Q&A

Q1:  I'm pretty new to dashboard studio and am interested in this demo because I found it very different from classic dashboarding and is very challenging. Would like to know everything from scratch

• A: Watch this YouTube Demo and follow this Step by Step Tutorial to get started with Dashboard Studio! 

Q2: The Dashboard Studio Examples Hub reminds me of ITSI, is there a similarity? 

• A: The underlying library that we're using to generate the dashboards and render the dashboards in Dashboard Studio is a Splunk developed library that is used both in dashboard studio and ITSI, and that's why you see a lot of similarities.
• But the implementation and features are not exactly the same. So in Dashboard Studio, we've implemented certain features that are intended to be a little bit more generic. In ITSI, they've implemented some additional features on top of that library that are very specific to the use cases that you may need an it operation. 

Q3: How are we supposed to use the datasets that you shared for the Challenge? Is there a sandbox environment or a test environment for us to practice on?

• A: If you don’t want to use your own environment, you can go ahead and download a free trial of Splunk Cloud Platform (encouraged for access to the newest features) or you can also download Splunk Enterprise for free. 

Q4: Can you go over drilldowns?

• A: Check out the drilldown step-by-step documentation (see full demo recording posted in the #office-hours Slack channel w/ Q&A slide deck).

Q: How do I color a table cell based on string values?

If you're on the latest version of Splunk Cloud (9.0.2209) you can use the configuration UI - this will allow you to specify particular strings and specify the color that you want (you can see it's happening with the green, yellow, and red):

If your version of Splunk doesn't have the UI, you can still color based on string values, by modifying source code. You can also look for examples of this in our Examples Hub. 

 "options": {
       "tableFormat": {},
       "columnFormat": {
           "Priority": {
               "data": "> table | seriesByName(\"Priority\") | formatByType(PriorityColumnFormatEditorConfig)",
               "rowColors": "> table | seriesByName('Priority') | pick(PriorityRowColorsEditorConfig)",
               "rowBackgroundColors": "> table | seriesByName(\"Priority\") | matchValue(PriorityRowBackgroundColorsEditorConfig)"
           }
       }
   },
   "context": {
       "PriorityRowBackgroundColorsEditorConfig": [
           {
               "match": "High",
               "value": "#FE3A3A"
           },
           {
               "match": "Medium",
               "value": "#FFD442"
           },
           {
               "match": "Low",
               "value": "#088F44"
           }
       ]
   },
}