Creating Dashboards

There comes a time in every data jedi's journey where they need to analyze data with a single glance and make quick decisions. For you my apprentice, that time is now.

Create a Dashboard

Until now all of the visualizations that you have seen have been a part of ad-hoc searches. Dashboards give us the ability to group and organize many visualizations onto a single screen and interact with those visualizations without the use of the Cribl Search Language.

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1. If you haven't already, navigate to Cribl Search by clicking Explore within the Search paneon the home page.

2. In the left navigation bar click Dashboards.

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   If the sidebar is collapsed the dashboards tab can be identified by the icon.

This is the Dashboard Page where you can manage existing dashboards and create new ones. Notice to the left of the dashboard listing there is the option to Add Collection.

Collections are handy for grouping dashboards logically. This can be done by team, function, data source, or really any way that you see fit. It only seems right that we put our dashboard into a collection for the sake of this exercise.

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1. Click Add Collection.
2. Enter Sandboxes as the Collection name.
3. Click Add.

Now you have an empty collection. Let's start filling it up by creating a new dashboard.

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1. Click Add Dashboard.
2. Enter the following details:
   1. Name: SBX Sample Dashboard - (your first name)
   2. Description: Cribl Search Sandbox Dashboard
   3. Collection: Sandboxes
   4. Cache data for: None
3. Click Save.

Perfect, you've now saved a wonderful(ly empty) dashboard. Let's take the time to spruce it up a bit shall we.