Is it correct practice to leave an inline search untitled, and only set a title on the "parent" panel?

[Graham_Hanningt]

I'm using Splunk (6.3.1) Web to create dashboards. My newbie workflow involves entering a search string in the Search app, playing around on the Visualization tab, and then saving as a dashboard panel.

When I edit the dashboard, the panel and its ("inline") search can each have their own title. But there's only one object in the panel - a chart - and so only the need for a single title.

I've chosen to specify a panel title and leave the searches untitled.

Is what I'm doing reasonable?

I don't see the point of specifying both; and the panel title renders in a larger font, which I prefer.

(I know I'm just scratching the surface of Splunk dashboards; especially, editing them via the Splunk Web UI, not directly editing the XML definition source.)

[PPape · Accepted solution]

Hi Graham,

yes this is a valid way. As long as you have only one chart / table / etc. in your Panel.
But you can place more than one Element in your Panel. Therefore i would prefer the Element Title.

[martin_mueller]

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