Back to the dashboard

Our dashboard menu includes three selections (in the upper-right corner, as shown in the following screenshot). We have already explored the first (Add Panel) in this chapter. Let's now move on to Add Input:

Back to the dashboard

Add input

Adding an input to your dashboard will convert it to a form. All dashboards are actually made up of XML code (we touched a bit on this earlier when we introduced prebuilt panels). In the next section (Edit Source), we will dive deep into this topic but for now, understand that the dashboard that we have created is made up of or defined by the XML which Splunk is using, and adding any type of input will modify the ...

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