Abstract: In various implementations, a client device includes a dashboard rendering framework that processes a dashboard definition. A search query in the dashboard definition is associated with smart source tokens corresponding to lifecycle events of the search query being executed. A dynamic data source transmits the search query to retrieve field values and a token management system automatically sets the smart source tokens to be updated. As the search query is being executed, and the token management system receives updated data values and updates the smart source tokens. The dashboard rendering framework retrieves events with the applicable values for the smart source tokens and renders the dashboard according to the dashboard definition by substituting smart source tokens with the corresponding values. The dashboard rendering framework then updates one or more visualizations in real time as the token management system updates the smart source tokens in real-time.