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Splunk 7 Essentials, Third Edition

You're reading from   Splunk 7 Essentials, Third Edition Demystify machine data by leveraging datasets, building reports, and sharing powerful insights

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788839112
Length 220 pages
Edition 3rd Edition
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Erickson Delgado Erickson Delgado
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Steven Koelpin Steven Koelpin
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J-P Contreras J-P Contreras
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Betsy Page Sigman Betsy Page Sigman
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Preface 1. Splunk – Getting Started FREE CHAPTER 2. Bringing in Data 3. Search Processing Language 4. Reporting, Alerts, and Search Optimization 5. Dynamic Dashboarding 6. Data Models and Pivot 7. HTTP Event Collector 8. Best Practices and Advanced Queries 9. Taking Splunk to the Organization

Creating a time range input

Let's change our input field into a time range field:

  1. On the list to the left for the first input, select Time.
  2. In the General section, type Select Time Range in the Label space.
  3. Click on the Search on Change checkbox.
  4. Enter time for the Token value.
  5. Set the Default time range to Last 24 hours.
  1. Click Apply when done.
  2. Use the following screenshot as a guide:
  1. Before you save the dashboard changes, click the Autorun dashboard checkbox, as seen in the following screenshot. Then click on Save:

You can now try to change the time range using the time input, but nothing will happen. This is because we have not yet configured the panels to react when the time input has been changed. In these next steps, we are adjusting the searches to consider the token filled by the input selection. Let us do that now:

  1. Go back to Edit to allow for dashboard changes...
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