Great question—you’re absolutely right that doing literal matches of lat/lon values from your car traces to the lookup file won’t work well, because GPS points are rarely going to land exactly on the same coordinates, especially with only ~100 reference points describing the whole track. Instead, what you really want is for each car GPS point to find the nearest point in your lookup file and use its segment name. ... View more

Yes, there isn’t really a single global “disable all dashboard refreshes” switch built into Splunk—whether you’re running on-premises (Splunk Enterprise) or in Splunk Cloud. By design, Splunk dashboards refresh automatically based on how panels are configured (e.g., scheduled searches or real-time searches) because this keeps them updated for users. However, there are ways to reduce or control refreshes. ... View more