topic Re: increase dropdown limit values : 1000 values / 25 000 values in Dashboards & Visualizations

increase dropdown limit values : 1000 values / 25 000 values

anissabnk — Mon, 01 Jul 2024 12:51:10 GMT

Hello, 

I have a problem with the dropdown menu limit which displays a maximum of 1000 values.

I need to display a list of 22000 values and I don't know how to do it. 

Thank you so much

Re: increase dropdown limit values : 1000 values / 25 000 values

ITWhisperer — Mon, 01 Jul 2024 13:00:24 GMT

Really? You expect your users to search through 25000 choices from your dropdown? You might be better off (or at least your users might be), using another dropdown the provide a filter for the 25000 list, e.g. values beginning with A, values beginning with B, etc.?

Re: increase dropdown limit values : 1000 values / 25 000 values

anissabnk — Mon, 01 Jul 2024 13:06:00 GMT

I'm not sure that I'm understand correctly.

Can you explain me more please that what's you have in mind ?

Thank you so much

Re: increase dropdown limit values : 1000 values / 25 000 values

ITWhisperer — Mon, 01 Jul 2024 13:50:59 GMT

It does depend on what values you have in your 25k dropdown list, but if we assume that the list is generated dynamically with some sort of search, your search could include a filter which is based on a token from a much smaller dropdown so that you can limit your results to under 1000.

Re: increase dropdown limit values : 1000 values / 25 000 values

anissabnk — Mon, 01 Jul 2024 14:10:26 GMT

Ok, I understand but you don't know if an other way exists ?

For example , modify the limits.conf in this way :

or try to work with transforms.conf :

What do you think ?

Thank you so much

Re: increase dropdown limit values : 1000 values / 25 000 values

bowesmana — Mon, 01 Jul 2024 23:21:35 GMT

Dashboard studio has a 1000 item limit because going over those numbers is really hard for the browser. Classic dashboards don't have the limit, but if you create one with 10,000 items it takes many seconds to show the list, so 25000 would be rather useless.

It's a browser issue more than a Splunk issue. You can't change any limits.conf and your parameter is not even an option.

So, as @ITWhisperer says, it's better to structure your dashboard so you have some initial filter, e.g. another dropdown or a text input that is used as a filter to limit the size of the dropdown.

Re: increase dropdown limit values : 1000 values / 25 000 values

dflodstrom — Tue, 15 Oct 2024 21:44:10 GMT

Yes, really but not 25k. My list is longer than 1000 entries and works just fine in classic dashboards. Users don't have to scroll through the whole list, they can start typing in the dropdown input to filter the list.

Re: increase dropdown limit values : 1000 values / 25 000 values

yoho — Fri, 25 Apr 2025 10:18:36 GMT

Main problem with this limitation is the lack of feedback about this truncation. Dashboard users will wrongly assume all entries are in the list.