1. A method, comprising: causing display of a service-monitoring dashboard that includes one or more key performance indicator (KPI) widgets, each KPI widget providing a numerical or graphical representation of one or more values for a corresponding KPI indicating how a service provided by one or more entities is performing at one or more points in time, wherein each entity of the one or more entities has a corresponding stored entity definition associated with a stored service definition for the service, the entity definition identifying machine data generated by or about the entity, and wherein each KPI is defined by a search query that derives the one or more values represented by the corresponding KPI widget from machine data identified in the entity definitions, wherein the method is performed by one or more processing devices.