Simple XML Dashboards - Implementing Splunk: Big Data Reporting and Development for Operational Intelligence - page 76

Using wizards to build dashboards
Using some of the queries from previous chapters, let's make an operational
dashboard for errors occurring in our infrastructure. We will start by making
a query (note that this query relies on the loglevel fields we created in Chapter 3 ,
Tables, Charts, and Fields ):

sourcetype="impl_splunk_gen" loglevel=error | timechart count as
"Error count" by network

This will produce a graph like this one:

To add this to a dashboard, we perform the following steps:

1. Choose Create | Dashboard panel… .