Use new dashboard experience

Create dashboards using the newly enhanced and customizable dashboard experience.

Use the new dashboard experience to create dynamic dashboards that support a greater range of visualization types, diverse data sources, and layout options, along with greater customization capabilities to help you visualize key metrics in your organization. Create dashboards that contain sections and section tabs, service maps, and other charts and visualizations.

Dashboards built using the new exeprience support existing chart types and some new visualizations. Some features currently available in the legacy dashboard builder may not yet be available in the new dashboard experience. Additional enhancements are planned in future releases.

Convert existing dashboards

Existing dashboards can be easily updated to leverage this new experience. To convert an existing dashboard to the new modern dashboard editing experience, follow these steps:

  1. Select an existing dashboard from the Dashboards page.

  2. Select the three-dot actions (⋯) menu, and select the Switch to new experience option.

  3. (Optional) To return to the old experience, select the three-dot menu again and select Switch to old experience.

Dashboard templates

Modern dashboard templates help you quickly get started with a new dashboard. To use a modern dashboard template, follow these steps:

  1. Go to the Dashboards page.

  2. Select the option List from the Modern dashboards card.

  3. Select one of the dashboards on the page. Select Save as and add a new title.

  4. Select Save to save a copy of thedashboard template.

  5. (Optional) Select the Dashboards breadcrumb link on the top of the page to view a list of all available templates.

Dashboard demos

Demos help you to visualize the charts and dashboards for common dashboard use cases. To view the demo dashboards, follow these steps:

  1. Go to the Dashboards page.

  2. Select one of the dashboards listed on the Modern dashboards card.

  3. Select the Dashboards breadcrumb link on the top of the page to view a list of all available demos.

  4. Select one of the demos to see a dashboard set up for common use cases, such as Kubernetes monitoring, or a dashboard to track alerts.

Add a section or subsection

Add sections and subsections to organize content on your dashboards. Sections improve clarity by grouping charts, saving space, and allowing users to expand or collapse content as needed. Subsections display correlations between charts and widgets.

Subsections and widgets may be added to a section, but sections cannot be nested within other sections. Sections span the full width of a page and are collapsible.

To add a section or subsection on a modern dashboard, select Add To Dashboard, and add the section or subsection. You can then drag and drop other visualizations into the new section or subsection.

Add a metrics chart

To add a metrics-based chart to a dashboard, select Add To Dashboard, then Metrics Chart. Select a visualization type from the chart builder in the right modal, and customize the chart. To learn more, see Chart options in the Chart Builder.

Add a logs chart

To add a logs-based chart to a dashboard, follow these steps:

  1. Log in to Splunk Observability Cloud and navigate to Dashboards.

  2. Find the New dashboard experience tile, and select List.

  3. Select Create Dashboard in the upper-right corner.

  4. Select Add to Dashboard, and then select Splunk Logs Chart.

  5. Set a time range.

  6. If you do not want to use the default connection, select a connection.
  7. Select Indexes, then select the index or indexes you want to query to form your log-based chart.
    Note: In the center of the module, you can view the events in the index you selected.

  8. In the Data scope section, select SPL1 editor, SPL2 editor, or JSON editor, depending on how you want to query your Splunk platform logs.

  9. Enter your SPL1, SPL2, or JSON query, and then select Run Search.

  10. To include or exclude selected fields, select Field Summary.

  11. Select the visualization type that best represents your data.

  12. Give your chart a title and description.

  13. Select Save.

Plot metrics using the plot builder

Select the Builder option in the Data scope section to display metrics on your charts. Select Add metric to select the data you want to add to your chart.

Once you've selected a signal, you need to determine the scope of what you want to look at. Splunk Observability Cloud allows you to filter down the signal using metrics metadata. For example, you might want to look at the latencies for a service, but only for the production environment. In Splunk Observability Cloud, the latency is your metric, and the service and environment names are both likely to be part of the metadata associated with the metric. Select Add filters to filter your data by specific values, which populate in the preview for your chart.

Finally, add analytics to your plot to adapt the data based on your business needs. Select Add analytics to see the list of available functions. You can configure advanced options by selecting the cog icon in the table. To learn more about supported analytics, see Analytics reference for Splunk Observability Cloud. For more information about the Signalflow analytics methods, see Apply analysis to SignalFlow object output with SignalFlow methods.