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Conducting dashboard performance review on Splunk Enterprise

This article offers a checklist of tasks to assist self-service customers in conducting dashboard performance review on Splunk Enterprise. This is one of many processes involved in Running a Splunk platform health check

Objective 

Audit up to five of the most impactful existing dashboards in your Splunk environment to assess performance and associated settings

In-scope

  • Review use of base and chain searches
  • Review search performance
  • Audit dashboard usage
  • Refresh Settings review
  • Enablement regarding dashboard best practices

Out-of-scope

  • Analysis of any custom Javascript or CSS
  • Efficiency review of any custom search commands

Task-specific assumptions

  • The person conducting this analysis has access to search the appropriate systems
  • The person conducting this analysis has admin permissions
  • Notable dashboards have been identified 

Additional resources

Splunk Professional Services can assist with this or any other process involved in conducting a Splunk platform health check. Click here to learn more about working with Professional Services.