Splunk Operational Intelligence Cookbook - Third Edition

Enriching data with visualizations

Data on its own can be hard for us, as humans, to make sense of easily and can be extremely tedious to analyze. Visualizations provide a powerful way to bring data to life. Presenting data in a visual context enables those viewing it to better understand the relationship one value has to another, identify patterns, build correlations between datasets, and plot trends. Colors that we easily relate to can be applied to visualizations in order to direct attention and highlight specific data points. For example, a value being within an acceptable range might be colored green, but when this value increases, it might change to yellow and eventually to red when it's within an unacceptable range. Humans associate ...