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Splunk Enterprise can natively produce PDFs of dashboards and reports. This integrated PDF features allow quicker and easier access to generate PDFs either via a schedule and emailed, or directly from the web.

There are some situations where Splunk cannot produce PDFs, including form-driven dashboards, dashboards created using advanced XML, and Simple XML dashboards that contain Flash components. There are also some visualizations and features that may not render properly.

PDFs are generated when requested by native libraries built into Splunk that render what would normally be output as HTML and encode this into the PDF. This is not an easy feat, as you must take the page layout and orientation into consideration and the ...

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