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Dashboards

Dashboards in Cribl Search are a powerful way to present data or provide useful tools to your teams. Just like with saved searches, you can add any search to a dashboard once you are happy with it.

Make a Dashboard
  1. Click search-home-icon Search Home in the left nav bar.
  2. Enter this search query 
    dataset="cribl_search_sample" dataSource="access_combined" | summarize info=countif(status<200), success=countif(status>=200 and status<300), fail=countif(status>=300 and status<500), epic_fail=countif(status>=500) by host
  3. Ensure the time is still set to 1 hour ago.
  4. Click Search.
  5. If necessary, change the chart back to a Column via the Format icon brush-icon.
  6. Click the Actions dropdown at the top right of the bar chart.
  7. Click Add to Dashboard.
  8. Click the Create new radio button.
  9. In the Panel title field, name the panel Coffee Web Server Status by Server.
  10. In the Dashboard name field, name the dashboard Coffee Web Server Fails Dashboard.
  11. Click Add & Go to Dashboard.

Et voila! A dashboard that shows the current status of our web servers. Not to toot our own horn, but "that was easy."

Auto-refresh

Dashboards can auto-refresh on an interval and accept inputs, both of which will be discussed in a later course.