Prepping for Dashboard Tabs

[Shautea]

Our current Splunk version doesn't have the Dashboard Tabs feature, but we'll be upgrading to one that does have it in 3 months. I need to setup some dashboards "now" with the intent that they feed in smoothly to the coming Tabs feature. Is there any nuance to this? Or am I simply creating 5 separate dashboards, to later reposition as Tabs?

[livehybrid · Accepted solution]

Hi @Shautea 

I think you'd be best creating them as individual dashboards for now, once upgraded you can easily join them into a single dashboard by clicking to add a new tab as below, and selecting Import a Dashboard:

Then you can paste in your other dashboard definition to add it as a tab:

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[Shautea]

Spot on!

[PickleRick]

Ha! You live, you learn. Wasn't aware that you can import this way. Nice one.

[PickleRick]

No. Dashboard with tabs contains "tabs" section within the layout part of the spec so you'll need to merge the code - define separate layouts based on your existing tabs and create tabs using those layouts.

It's not that you'll have to rewrite whole dashboards from scratch but it's still a bit more complicated that simple copy-paste.

[Shautea]

Thanks Rick. I'm setting up new dashboards so we don't have existing tabs now. I want to confirm the most seamless way to create these new dashboards, given that I plan for them to use the proper Tabs feature once we've got access to it.