topic Re: Change Chart Increment (X Axis) in Splunk Search

Change Chart Increment (X Axis)

henryt1 — Tue, 04 Sep 2012 19:21:56 GMT

I have a dashboard created with a few different things in it, and when I left the office on Friday my 'Sessions' count was only showing whole numbers in that particular chart. However, when I came in this morning, it's showing in 0.25 increments (in the X axis). How could I change this back to whole numbers?

Thanks,

Tyler

Re: Change Chart Increment (X Axis)

cphair — Tue, 04 Sep 2012 20:59:04 GMT

I suspect you'll need to use this charting parameter, assuming you're in simple XML:



<option name="charting.axisLabelsX.integerUnits">true</option>

UPDATE: Given that you're using a bar graph, try setting charting.axisLabelsY.integerUnits to true instead. I just tested it on a view of my own, and the axisLabelsY parameter affected the dependent axis, which for a bar graph is the horizontal one. Go figure.

You can read about the other available parameters for axes and gridlines at http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/4.3.3/Developer/CustomChartingConfig-AxisGrid

Re: Change Chart Increment (X Axis)

henryt1 — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 12:57:38 GMT

Where in the XML would this go? I've tried several places and nothing is working. Right now it looks like this:

*
Live Sessions (Past Hour)
-1h@h
now

bar
gaps
false
default
false
none

""
""
""

Re: Change Chart Increment (X Axis)

cphair — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 13:48:43 GMT

@henryt1, I updated my answer above. Did you modify your XML from what appears in your dashboard? searchString is miscapitalized, and I'm not sure what you're doing a bar graph over since your search has no statistical command.

Re: Change Chart Increment (X Axis)

henryt1 — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 15:50:46 GMT

The change to the Y axis like you mentioned above got it, thanks! Oh and for the search string I listed I just took out the search I'm doing when I posted it on here.