Dashboards & Visualizations

Reload separate element within HTML dashboard

ateterine
Path Finder

Hi Splunk community,

I am working on a HTML dashboard for deeper customization of the data for displaying on large screens and unattended.
I have pretty good knowledge of CSS and HTML so customization works good so far.

I am trying to set dashboard to auto refresh without reloading the whole page (which is somewhat easy with either meta. tag or JavaScript.

But what I would rather have is to refresh each element (that way I can choose which elements I want to refresh and how often)

I've played with various methods, but cannot find a way to reload each element on a dashboard. I've tried Ajax's .load() function, but it doesn't load data when reloading the element.

Any help will be appreciated.

Thanks

1 Solution

martin_mueller
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

You can make a search run again by calling the SearchManager's startSearch() method, effectively reloading that panel.

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nfilippi_splunk
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

Splunk 6.1 now features element-specific refresh intervals.

In Simple XML, you can reference this as such:

<panel>
  <chart>
    <title>Enable auto refresh of 30s</title>
    <searchString>index=_internal | top limit=3 sourcetype</searchString>
    <earliestTime>-60m@m</earliestTime>
    <latestTime>now</latestTime>
    <option name="refresh.auto.interval">30</option>
  </chart>
</panel>

In HTML and JS, you can reference this as such:

var element2 = new ChartElement({
    "id": "element2",
    "resizable": true,
    "refresh.auto.interval": "30",
    "managerid": "search2",
    "el": $('#element2')
}, {tokens: true}).render();

ateterine
Path Finder

Thanks! Can't wait to upgrade to 6.1, very soon now 😉

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martin_mueller
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

You can make a search run again by calling the SearchManager's startSearch() method, effectively reloading that panel.

ateterine
Path Finder

Thanks! SavedSearchManager works the same way, I just had to create all elements by using:

var search1 = new SavedSearchManager ({...})
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