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3666142
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I have a panel (shown below) and I want to change its color. The panel is called Application Name and I want it to be purple. How do I do that?

In other words, I want "sad-api" to be purple not white.

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elizabethl_splu
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

If you're willing to try out Dashboard Studio, this is possible directly in the UI: 

Screen Shot 2021-06-25 at 12.04.02 PM.png

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bowesmana
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

@3666142 

See this example dashboard

<dashboard theme="dark">
  <label>SadApi</label>
  <row depends="$showformat$">
    <panel>
      <html>
        <style>
          #app_name g.svg-label text {
            fill:#6a0dad !important;
          }
          #environment g.svg-label text {
            fill:#6a0dad !important;
          }
        </style>
      </html>
    </panel>
  </row>
  <row>
    <panel id="app_name">
      <single>
        <title>Application Name</title>
        <search>
          <query>| makeresults
| eval "Application Name"="SadApi"</query>
          <earliest>-4h@m</earliest>
          <latest>now</latest>
          <sampleRatio>1</sampleRatio>
        </search>
        <option name="colorBy">value</option>
        <option name="colorMode">none</option>
        <option name="drilldown">none</option>
        <option name="height">114</option>
        <option name="numberPrecision">0</option>
        <option name="rangeColors">["0x53a051","0x0877a6","0xf8be34","0xf1813f","0xdc4e41"]</option>
        <option name="rangeValues">[0,30,70,100]</option>
        <option name="showSparkline">1</option>
        <option name="showTrendIndicator">1</option>
        <option name="trellis.enabled">0</option>
        <option name="trellis.scales.shared">1</option>
        <option name="trellis.size">medium</option>
        <option name="trendColorInterpretation">standard</option>
        <option name="trendDisplayMode">absolute</option>
        <option name="unitPosition">after</option>
        <option name="useColors">0</option>
        <option name="useThousandSeparators">1</option>
      </single>
    </panel>
    <panel id="environment">
      <single>
        <title>Application Name</title>
        <search>
          <query>| makeresults
| eval "Environment"="Release"</query>
          <earliest>-4h@m</earliest>
          <latest>now</latest>
          <sampleRatio>1</sampleRatio>
        </search>
        <option name="colorBy">value</option>
        <option name="colorMode">none</option>
        <option name="drilldown">none</option>
        <option name="height">114</option>
        <option name="numberPrecision">0</option>
        <option name="rangeColors">["0x53a051","0x0877a6","0xf8be34","0xf1813f","0xdc4e41"]</option>
        <option name="rangeValues">[0,30,70,100]</option>
        <option name="showSparkline">1</option>
        <option name="showTrendIndicator">1</option>
        <option name="trellis.enabled">0</option>
        <option name="trellis.scales.shared">1</option>
        <option name="trellis.size">medium</option>
        <option name="trendColorInterpretation">standard</option>
        <option name="trendDisplayMode">absolute</option>
        <option name="unitPosition">after</option>
        <option name="useColors">0</option>
        <option name="useThousandSeparators">1</option>
      </single>
    </panel>
  </row>
</dashboard>

By setting <panel id="X"> and defining a hidden row with some embedded CSS, the change is effected by the CSS

#app_name g.svg-label text {
  fill:#6a0dad !important;
}

where the #app_name line identifies your panel identifier and then set the appropriate colour code in the fill statement.

This is a common technique for playing around with Splunk dashboard styling - what you can do comes down to your skills with CSS

Hope this helps

 

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