Course Format and Delivery

Delivery Method: LiveOnline 
Schedule: 1 Day
Cost: $895 USD 

All sessions are delivered live by an expert instructor in a fully interactive online environment.

About this course

This immersive 8-hour workshop equips participants with the knowledge and hands-on skills needed to design, build, and optimize both Classic dashboards and modern, dynamic dashboards in Splunk.

The first half of the day focuses on Classic dashboards—covering SimpleXML, tokens, inputs, and drilldowns. The second half transitions to Dashboard Studio—teaching advanced visual design, dynamic interactions, inter-panel communication, and performance optimization.

By the end of the day, participants will be able to build interactive, user-friendly dashboards that power data-driven decisions across operations, analytics, and engineering teams. 

What you will learn

• Dashboard Foundations

  • Understand differences between Classic Dashboards and Dashboard Studio

  • Apply best practices for search structure, base searches, and performance tuning

• Classic Dashboards

  • Build dashboards using SimpleXML

  • Add tables, charts, and panels powered by SPL

  • Use Classic dashboard tokens, inputs, and drilldowns

  • Apply search-driven dynamic updates

• Dynamic Dashboards / Dashboard Studio

  • Build modern dashboards with rich visuals and custom layouts

  • Use tokens, cascading inputs, and panel interactions

  • Build drilldowns that update visualizations and route users to detail views

  • Integrate base searches, SPL macros, and dashboard templates

  • Implement performance optimization techniques

• Hands-On & Operational Skills

  • Debug dashboards using Splunk’s tools and logs

  • Publish dashboards with the correct permissions 

What you will need

At least 12 months of using Splunk and/or completion of the 2 day Splunk bootcamp.

This course is great for

• IT Operations and DevOps professionals, Security analysts and administrators, Data engineers and analysts, Developers and QA engineers, Business intelligence professionals, Anyone responsible for monitoring, analyzing, or reporting on machine data​

Topics Covered

Module 1: Foundations of Splunk Dashboards (Classic)

• Introduction to dashboarding in Splunk

• Classic Dashboards vs. Dashboard Studio

• How Splunk SimpleXML works

• Panels, searches, and data sources

• Base searches vs. inline searches

Hands-On Labs

• Build a Classic dashboard

• Add tables, charts, and single-value KPIs

• Convert a saved search into a dashboard panel
  
  

• Input types (Dropdown, Multiselect, Time pickers)

• SimpleXML token types: $token$, default, global

• Passing tokens into SPL

• Linking input values to panels

Hands-On Labs

• Add interactive inputs to a Classic dashboard

• Build dynamic panels that respond to tokens

• Use time-range tokens to update searches
  
  

• Drilldown actions in Classic dashboards

• Populate tokens via click events

• Dynamic search routing

• Click-to-filter functionality

• Multi-panel interactions

Hands-On Labs

• Enable drilldowns on charts & tables

• Build a “master → detail” dashboard

• Filter table results by clicking a chart element
  
  

Module 4 – Classic Dashboard Performance Optimization

• Dashboard acceleration with saved searches

• Scheduled reports to reduce search load

• Search concurrency considerations

• Optimizing panel refresh and auto-refresh

• Troubleshooting and XML debugging

Hands-On Labs

• Convert expensive searches to scheduled reports

• Optimize dashboard load time

• Clean up unused tokens and unused inputs
  
  

Module 5 – Transition to Dashboard Studio (Dynamic Dashboards)

• Dashboard Studio overview

• Differences from Classic (JSON vs. XML, visual editor)

• Canvas, layouts, custom visualizations

• Understanding Studio architecture: data sources, visualizations, inputs

Hands-On Labs

• Create your first Dashboard Studio dashboard

• Explore panel types & use case examples

• Import Classic dashboard data sources into Studio
  
  

Module 6 – Tokens, Inputs & Dynamic Behavior in Studio

• Using tokens in Dashboard Studio

• Cascading inputs (Region → Facility → Asset)

• Dynamic time inputs

• Creating responsive, multi-panel dashboards

Hands-On Labs

• Build dashboards with dropdown, radio & multi-select inputs

• Implement cascading filters

• Pass token values into SPL searches
  
  

Module 7 – Drilldowns, Navigation & Advanced Visuals

• Configuring drilldowns in Studio

• Linking dashboards using token passing

• Click-to-filter behavior

• Using shapes, SVGs, and conditional coloring

• Contextual navigation workflows

Hands-On Labs

• Build a drilldown-driven “detail view” dashboard

• Add conditional formatting to KPIs

• Use SVG maps or network diagrams
  
  

Module 8 – Final Lab, Publishing & Best Practices

• Dashboard lifecycle in an enterprise

• Sharing, permissions, and folder structure

• Dashboard governance

• Dashboard performance checklist

• Troubleshooting failed searches