What is the primary benefit of using dashboards in Splunk ES?

Using dashboards in Splunk Enterprise Security provides quick visual insights and summaries, which is critical for security monitoring and analysis. Dashboards present data in a graphical format that allows users to rapidly assess the security posture of their environment, track key performance indicators, and identify anomalies or suspicious activities. This capability enhances decision-making by allowing security analysts to visualize complex data trends and patterns at a glance, catering to both operational response and compliance requirements.

Given that dashboards are designed to aggregate and display multiple data sources in a coherent manner, they save valuable time for analysts who would otherwise spend longer reviewing data in raw form. Instead of sifting through logs and events line by line, users can use a dashboard to quickly identify where investigations should be focused. Dashboards can also provide interactive components, enabling users to drill down into data for deeper analysis.

While storing incident reports and automating data entry are useful operations, they do not capture the main purpose and functionality of dashboards. Similarly, assigning user access rights relates more to security and permissions management than to the visualization of data insights.