Dashboards & Visualizations

how to auto refresh a dashboard?

abovebeyond
Communicator

My dashboard xml looks like:

<form>

<label>WEB PANEL</label>
<description>test </description>
<fieldset autoRun="true" submitButton="false">


Last 24 hours

</fieldset>
<row>
test


Chart of codes between $earliest$ and $latest$

sourcetype=test

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Gilberto_Castil
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

Splunk Dashboards and Forms share a common set of attributes. If the intent is to refresh the entire form, you need to add the refresh attribute and indicate the interval in seconds.

For example:

<form refresh="30"> 

http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/latest/Viz/PanelreferenceforSimplifiedXML#Dashboards_and...

I hope this helps,

--gc

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Gilberto_Castil
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

Splunk Dashboards and Forms share a common set of attributes. If the intent is to refresh the entire form, you need to add the refresh attribute and indicate the interval in seconds.

For example:

<form refresh="30"> 

http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/latest/Viz/PanelreferenceforSimplifiedXML#Dashboards_and...

I hope this helps,

--gc

marcfelden
Explorer

well, actually for a dashboard you have to replace "form" with "dashboard"

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