In this recipe, we started to experience the power of Splunk's amazing dashboard editor. The dashboard editor provides a nice usable interface that essentially shields the user from what is happening underneath the covers. When we edit dashboard panels and visualizations in this manner, Splunk is actually writing the required Simple XML code into the respective view's XML file on your behalf. When you click on Save, the file is essentially saved with the newly written XML under the covers. If you are hungry for more, don't worry; we are just getting started with the editor. There is plenty more to come later in this chapter!
Dashboards in Splunk are also called Views. In the management interface and in the backend, they are ...
