Dashboards & Visualizations

Dashboard Best Practices & Performance

subtrakt
Contributor

Hello,
I have a dashboard that displays around 30 saved searches. I have it set to load all the saved searches when the dashboard is loaded and refresh every 600 seconds - performance is fair.

To increase performance, I'm debating on scheduling the saved searches but don't want to create too much overhead when the dashboard is not in use. Would using dashboard inline searches be a better option?

Thanks!

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martin_mueller
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

Inline or saved searches don't affect their performance, that's just where the search string is stored.

Some common ways to improve performance of a many-searches dashboard:

  • Look for commonality between searches. When found, combine several searches into one and use post-processing to drive several panels off one search.
  • Look for searches eligible for report acceleration
  • Look for long-running searches left over after these steps and schedule those searches

Above all that there's general search performance optimization, such as reducing the number of events scanned to achieve the search goal or replacing costly operations with cheaper ones or avoiding inefficient wildcard matches.

martin_mueller
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust
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a212830
Champion

Is there doc on how to handle post-processing?

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