Splunk® Enterprise

Dashboards and Visualizations

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Visualization reference

Compare options and select a visualization to show the data insights that you need.

To quickly view the most fundamental overview of common visualizations and their use cases, note that you can access the Splunk Dashboards Quick Reference guide by clicking the link in Getting started.

Visualization Usage To learn more see
Events list

7.1 Event list viz example.png

Show the events that a search generates.
  • Show events without additional processing.
  • Show extracted fields and values directly in a dashboard.
  • Users can click on event fields or timestamps to open a more specific search.
Using events lists
Table

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Compare and aggregate field values.
  • Isolate one or more specific fields from search results.
  • Add formatting to highlight trends or patterns in specific fields.
Table visualization overview
Charts

6.4 Stacked area chart example.png

Visualize one or more dimensions in a data set.
Use one of the following chart types depending on how many dimensions, or fields, you are visualizing.
  • Pie
  • Area, line, column, bar
  • Bubble and scatter
Chart overview
Single value

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Show an aggregated metric in context.
  • Track recent changes or trends in real time.
  • Use colors to add context dynamically.
Single value overview
Gauges

6.4 marker gauge example.png

  • Show an aggregated metric against a range.
  • Track a metric as it approaches a specific target.
Using gauges
Maps

6.3.0 choropleth screenshot divergent us states.png

Visualize data with geographic coordinates.
  • Use a Choropleth map to show and compare regional trends or concentrations.
  • Use a marker map to plot geographic data.
Mapping data
Custom visualizations Analyze and represent unique data sets.

An admin must install custom visualization apps to make them available for Splunk users.
See Custom visualizations for more details.
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This documentation applies to the following versions of Splunk® Enterprise: 7.1.0, 7.1.1, 7.1.2, 7.1.3, 7.1.4, 7.1.5, 7.1.6, 7.1.7, 7.1.8, 7.1.9, 7.1.10, 7.2.0, 7.2.1, 7.2.2, 7.2.3, 7.2.4, 7.2.5, 7.2.6, 7.2.7, 7.2.8, 7.2.9, 7.2.10, 7.3.0, 7.3.1, 7.3.2, 7.3.3, 7.3.4, 7.3.5, 7.3.6, 7.3.7, 7.3.8, 7.3.9, 8.0.0, 8.0.1, 8.0.2, 8.0.3, 8.0.4, 8.0.5, 8.0.6, 8.0.7, 8.0.8, 8.0.9, 8.0.10, 8.1.0, 8.1.1, 8.1.2, 8.1.3, 8.1.4, 8.1.5, 8.1.6, 8.1.7, 8.1.8, 8.1.9, 8.1.10, 8.1.11, 8.1.12, 8.1.13, 8.1.14, 8.2.0, 8.2.1, 8.2.2, 8.2.3, 8.2.4, 8.2.5, 8.2.6, 8.2.7, 8.2.8, 8.2.9, 8.2.10, 8.2.11, 8.2.12, 9.0.0, 9.0.1, 9.0.2, 9.0.3, 9.0.4, 9.0.5, 9.0.6, 9.0.7, 9.0.8, 9.1.0, 9.1.1, 9.1.2, 9.1.3, 9.2.0


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