Build a simple dashboard with Splunk to visualise your DB data

A Simple Splunk Dashboard we aim to build

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Splunk comes as a web-style interface that captures real-time data from which it can generate graphs, reports, alerts, dashboards and visualisations. It can be used to automate complex queries and reports across multiple data sources, deal with any data type and provide real-time alerting abilities. Thus, it can be a simple and quick way to help you get an insight into your business metrics, error logs and so on.

This article will focus on building a simple metrics dashboard for a user management platform which involves 3 major steps:

• Installing and setting up Splunk
• Setting up a database connection using the Splunk DB Connect
• Turn your DB queries into a simple metrics dashboard

Install Splunk

Download Splunk Free and follow the setup instructions. When finished, navigate to http://localhost:8000 or http://localhost:8001.

Set Up DB Connection — Install Splunk DB Connect on a Single Server Deployment