topic Re: No labels showing in Vertical bar Chart in All Apps and Add-ons

No labels showing in Vertical bar Chart

mwong — Mon, 12 Jan 2015 07:27:01 GMT

When creating a search which displayed as a vertical bar chart. It had labels for the Y-axis reflecting the fields used in search query.
However when saving that search as a dashboard panel the labels of fields values no longer show.

Re: No labels showing in Vertical bar Chart

mwong — Mon, 12 Jan 2015 07:42:17 GMT

This is expected behavior. When the height of a vertical axis is so small that the labels would overlap one another, they are all hidden instead. There is currently no configuration that will control this behavior. The fix is to specify a larger height for the dashboard panel.
To workaround this, edit the xml and add the below option inside the tag:

<option name="height">300</option>

The value of the vertical axis should be showing again.

Re: No labels showing in Vertical bar Chart

helenashton — Tue, 14 Apr 2015 21:37:04 GMT

What if you don't know how many columns you will have to be able to work out a good height?

Re: No labels showing in Vertical bar Chart

Michael — Thu, 17 Sep 2015 18:39:12 GMT

Good answer. The simple solution was to cut down the "limit" -- mine was at 20, setting to 10 solved it. Thanks!

Re: No labels showing in Vertical bar Chart

marcoscala — Fri, 14 Oct 2016 15:20:02 GMT

This is really bad! Many customers are asking for dashboards or reports with bar charts and not being able to set a minimum height for each bar is putting Splunk in a really bad light!!!

No idea to change this in the future?!

Marco Scala

Re: No labels showing in Vertical bar Chart

sp00nybi11 — Wed, 06 Sep 2017 15:10:28 GMT

I agree, surely it is an easy change to allow for setting the height of each bar in the settings? This is causing issues with use cases where bar charts are dynamic. The worst part is that you would not know until the user pick it up from not being able to see the Y Axis values.

Can we get this fixed please?