Staggering Refresh of Individual Panels in a Dashboard

[aferone]

I have successfully implemented refreshing dashboard panels individually, without refreshing the entire dashboard, using the information in this Splunk Answers post:

Link

However, what if I wanted each panel to refresh for the same time frame (i.e. past 15 minutes), but I wanted to stagger when each panel refreshed (i.e. 1 minute apart)? I want to basically avoid refreshing the entire dashboard at the same time, but I want to stagger when each panel refreshes.

Is this possible?

Thanks!

[jdwest1]

I think because the spot requires an integer you have to play the Least Common Multiple game. As far as I know, you can't have a variable there + an integer which is what would solve your problem. I joked with my boss about needing a fourth grader for this type of operation. But seriously, if you need to refresh but not at the same time. Use this link to calculate it out guess-and-check style, aim for much longer than you will have the dashboard up.

http://www.mathsisfun.com/least-common-multiple-tool.html

I did 302 and 304 secs which won't overlap for over 12 hours.
You would need to be more creative if you are refreshing a lot of panels. Might go for refreshing 3-4 at a time. I have 20+ panels and am running into issues of the graphics not displaying on most of the graphs.

[DalJeanis]

To avoid all that icky math, you could have two steps -
(1) when the entire dashboard refreshes, have each panel set a staggered refresh rate (10s, 20s, 30s, 40s, 50s, 60s, 70s etc)
(2) On each panel's refresh, have it set itself to the same refresh rate (240 sec)

[sbrant_splunk]

With simple XML in v6.1.x, it's no longer necessary to use another module to refresh individual panels. There is a refresh option now. For example, in the settings for a chart in 6.x, you could use the following to refresh the chart every 900 seconds:

<option name="refresh.auto.interval">900</option>

http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/latest/Viz/PanelreferenceforSimplifiedXML

[sbrant_splunk]

In the Splunk URL for the dashboard in question, add this on the end:

?showsource=true

so, if you were viewing the dashboard weather_stats, it would look like the following:

http://:8000/en-US/app/weather/weather_stats?showsource=true

I don't have a 6.0 instance to test with but that will either show you the advanced xml directly or will show you HTML and give you a link to show the advanced xml.

[karthikp1989]

As I mentioned, my Splunk version is 6.0.4. There is a refresh option for dashboard as a whole but not individual panels. I see the refresh.auto.interval works only in the latest versions.

So getting back to my question of how to edit advanced xml, if I click on edit source, I see only simple XML. May I know where can I edit the advanced XML so that I can use the code snippets from the link mentioned by @aferone in his original question?

[karthikp1989]

In reference to the link you mentioned, How can I edit the dashboard source code as advanced XML? I can only see simple XML when I try to edit the source? I am using Splunk 6.0 version. Any help would be helpful. Thank you