Dashboards & Visualizations

What is the difference between a dashboard and a report?

hans
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

What is the difference between a dashboard and a report? How are they used?

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matt
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

A report is a visualization of the data that was returned by a given search. They allow you analyze the information you uncover through your searches and use it to create compelling stories.

A dashboard is a collection of objects (reports, links, etc.). This allows you combine multiple different "stories" into a single interface. From the documentation:

Use dashboards to highlight interesting and useful aspects of your data, link to important searches and display common reports

Another way to look at it: The Search app contains an Indexing Activity dashboard. This dashboard has several different reports that visualize the state of various indexing operations. Each of these reports could be run independent of the dashboard and the two are not mutually exclusive.

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matt
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

A report is a visualization of the data that was returned by a given search. They allow you analyze the information you uncover through your searches and use it to create compelling stories.

A dashboard is a collection of objects (reports, links, etc.). This allows you combine multiple different "stories" into a single interface. From the documentation:

Use dashboards to highlight interesting and useful aspects of your data, link to important searches and display common reports

Another way to look at it: The Search app contains an Indexing Activity dashboard. This dashboard has several different reports that visualize the state of various indexing operations. Each of these reports could be run independent of the dashboard and the two are not mutually exclusive.

skender27
Contributor

Hi,

What if I need to schedule an entire dashboard (with inputs form) in a pdf?
Is it possible? Or I need to convert each dashboard panel into a report?

Thanks,
Skender

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