Dashboard Best practices | Load only a part of dashboard

[saveriobocca]

Good morning guys,

I'm currently working on an analytics dashboard on the app
Splunk Enterprise security.
The dashboard consists of many modules and panels. For example there are several
sections that can only be shown by selecting a radio buttom.

The problem is the best practices of the dashboard.
The dashboard every time updates internally causing slowdowns.

It would be possible to update the dashboard (and therefore the panels) only
when i select the radio buttom?

Ultimately to make sure that the dashboard does not update in full at each refresh?

Thank you all,
Xavier

[HaxUez]

It depends on how you have your dashboard built.  If you didn't change the source, and each panel is its own query you can edit the dashboard, click on the edit search icon and choose an appropriate refresh interval for each panel  independently. 

[saveriobocca]

Hi HaxUez,

Thanks for the reply.

The entire dashboard is already set to "no auto refresh" as recommended.

I wanted to know in detail if, programmatically, it is possible to activate and inhibit the automatic search based on the selected radio button.

Consider that there is a time picker which, when modified, updates the dashboard in real time.

Can I programmatically set / unset the searches?

Thanks so much,
Xavier

[HaxUez]

Sounds like you are using a time picker to update the entire dashboard. A suggestion would be to set the panels to not refresh, and insert a time picker into each panel via edit source and not use a shared time picker.  You would have to add the following to each panel and change field1, field2 etc.  

<input type="time" token="field1">
<label>Time Picker</label>
<default>
<earliest>-24h@h</earliest>
<latest>now</latest>
</default>

[saveriobocca]

Hi @HaxUez ,

unfortunately the time picker must necessarily be shared.
I need to be able to update the entire dashboard at times with the same time picker.

Being a not very light dashboard at a computational level, I opted for a solution relating to the freeze of the various sections based on a choice via radio button (section1, section2, etc)

Is it therefore not possible to inhibit various sections from the automatic update and load them one at a time?

Thanks so much,
Xavier