topic Re: Chart not showing up in Dashboards & Visualizations

Chart not showing up

lmalhoit — Thu, 30 Dec 2010 22:33:50 GMT

Hi All, I'm pretty new to splunk. I was setting up my dashboard and tried to create a chart using the Top 5 Source Types saved search. It doesn't give an error or anything...just doesn't show anything. I've let it run for a day, to be on the safe side, but still nothing. When I click on View Results, it goes to the search and shows me the 5 source types, no problem. Here is the saved search:

index=_internal (source=/metrics.log OR source=\metrics.log) group=per_sourcetype_thruput | chart sum(kb) by series | sort -sum(kb) | head 5

Any suggestions?

Thanks!

Re: Chart not showing up

thall79 — Fri, 31 Dec 2010 00:32:02 GMT

Just curious are you building a simple dashboard? If so did you try and select Data table from the panel style drop down instead of chart to see if you get results on that dashboard?

Next question are you able to see other flash charts in Splunk?

And what version of Splunk are you using?

Travis.

Re: Chart not showing up

lmalhoit — Fri, 31 Dec 2010 04:23:21 GMT

I believe it is just a simple dashboard. I did select Chart in the drop down, though. I am able to see other charts when I do a Search...I can see the bar graphs, for example.
This is version 4.1.6

Thanks!

Re: Chart not showing up

lmalhoit — Fri, 31 Dec 2010 04:49:30 GMT

Your question about Flash got me thinking. I was using Chrome...so I tried Firefox and that seemed to fix it. Sorry for the stupid question!

Thanks!

Re: Chart not showing up

thall79 — Mon, 03 Jan 2011 21:59:10 GMT

There is never a stupid question, glad you were able to fix it.