When creating a dashboard through the user interface, Splunk builds the underlying dashboard object code in simple XML for you behind the scenes. Following this, the dashboard object will then be used as a container for the reports you add to it. You can always view the source code of the dashboard by clicking on the Edit button and then, when in edit mode, you can click on Source. The simple XML source code for the dashboard will be displayed in the editor. Dashboards and simple XML will be covered in more detail in the next chapter.
There are several ways in which dashboards can be created in the Splunk user interface. In this recipe, we essentially created an empty dashboard, which is ready to be filled with visualized ...
