https://community.splunk.com/t5/Monitoring-Splunk/Dropdown-multiselect-input-maximum-number-of-choice-items/m-p/310599#M2894 <P>We are populating Simple XML <CODE>input</CODE> elements of types <CODE>dropdown</CODE> and <CODE>multiselect</CODE> from searches. In some cases the number of elements can be very high, so I would like to limit the number added as choices to the UI.</P> <P>My question is: <STRONG>what is a reasonable upper limit for the number of choice items per input element?</STRONG></P> <P>In our experiments 1,000 choice items did not pose any obvious problem. Would 10,000 or 100,000 be OK on modern browsers, too?</P> Sat, 18 Feb 2017 00:26:01 GMT helge 2017-02-18T00:26:01Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Monitoring-Splunk/Dropdown-multiselect-input-maximum-number-of-choice-items/m-p/310599#M2894 <P>We are populating Simple XML <CODE>input</CODE> elements of types <CODE>dropdown</CODE> and <CODE>multiselect</CODE> from searches. In some cases the number of elements can be very high, so I would like to limit the number added as choices to the UI.</P> <P>My question is: <STRONG>what is a reasonable upper limit for the number of choice items per input element?</STRONG></P> <P>In our experiments 1,000 choice items did not pose any obvious problem. Would 10,000 or 100,000 be OK on modern browsers, too?</P> Sat, 18 Feb 2017 00:26:01 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Monitoring-Splunk/Dropdown-multiselect-input-maximum-number-of-choice-items/m-p/310599#M2894 helge 2017-02-18T00:26:01Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Monitoring-Splunk/Dropdown-multiselect-input-maximum-number-of-choice-items/m-p/310600#M2895 <P>I thought there was a limit of 10,000 but that does not appear to be the case in 6.4.</P> <P>In general, I limit mine to 2500. I am usually chaining multiple input elements from a larger data set defined in a lookup, so the early selected values help filter the subsequent values.</P> <P>I just did a simple test that included 23,000+ units on a dashboard with nothing else than that single input, and I would say that it had a noticeable impact on my system (primary standalone server with plenty of resources). That input set (the SID) ate up a few megabytes and made my input element nearly unresponsive.</P> Mon, 20 Feb 2017 10:44:33 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Monitoring-Splunk/Dropdown-multiselect-input-maximum-number-of-choice-items/m-p/310600#M2895 rjthibod 2017-02-20T10:44:33Z