Before this chapter gets into everything that is great about visualizations, it is best to first cover the process of creating a dashboard. In this recipe, you will create a dashboard from scratch using the Splunk Web UI which we will then use for other recipes in this chapter.
Creating an Operational Intelligence dashboard
Getting ready
To step through this recipe, you will need a running Splunk Enterprise server, with the sample data loaded from Chapter 1, Play Time - Getting Data In, and to have completed all of the recipes from Chapter 2, Diving into Data - Search and Report. You should be familiar with navigating the Splunk user interface.
