This is certainly possible to do in Splunk and much easier now that Splunk 6 has been released since you can just use native HTML. You"ll see an example in the Splunk 6 Dashboard Examples app. (Layout Elements -> Image Overlay With Single Values) http://apps.splunk.com/app/1603/?elq=9bb5463a0c9047bd87a56326391ce0e8&elqCampaignId=911 From Nick: Splunk 6 makes this a lot easier to do within Simple XML, where you can include custom css on a per-page level The basics are as such: - Create all of your dashboard elements that you want to overlay in simple xml (set an "id" for each element; new to Splunk 6) - Use row grouping for the above so that a single "panel" gets rendered - Include a custom css in your simple xml view - Use css to set absolute positions for each element (by id) ... View more