https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/error-in-timechart-command-and-too-many-bins/m-p/28158#M5530 <P>How can you be sure that maxbins is not set? It does get set in $SPLUNK_HOME/etc/system/default/limits.conf, specifically:</P> <PRE><CODE>[discretize] maxbins = 50000 </CODE></PRE> <P>Have you tried updating this (by creating a etc/system/<STRONG>local</STRONG>/limits.conf)? You can also run the CLI command:</P> <PRE><CODE>&gt; splunk.exe cmd btool limits list </CODE></PRE> Wed, 19 Jan 2011 03:46:53 GMT Dan 2011-01-19T03:46:53Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/error-in-timechart-command-and-too-many-bins/m-p/28157#M5529 <P>I am getting the following error</P> <P>Error in 'timechart' command: Span value '1m' results in too many (&gt; 50000) bins. Edit limits.conf to change limits.</P> <P>In my limits.conf file maxbins is not set, but maxresultsrow is set to a larger number. The comments state that if maxbins is not specified, it will default to the maxresultsrows </P> <PRE><CODE>[searchresults] maxresultrows = 5000000 </CODE></PRE> <P>commented line: if maxbins not specified or = 0, defaults to searchresults::maxresultrows</P> <P>Any assistance would be appreciated.</P> Wed, 19 Jan 2011 00:24:37 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/error-in-timechart-command-and-too-many-bins/m-p/28157#M5529 bwojciechowski 2011-01-19T00:24:37Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/error-in-timechart-command-and-too-many-bins/m-p/28158#M5530 <P>How can you be sure that maxbins is not set? It does get set in $SPLUNK_HOME/etc/system/default/limits.conf, specifically:</P> <PRE><CODE>[discretize] maxbins = 50000 </CODE></PRE> <P>Have you tried updating this (by creating a etc/system/<STRONG>local</STRONG>/limits.conf)? You can also run the CLI command:</P> <PRE><CODE>&gt; splunk.exe cmd btool limits list </CODE></PRE> Wed, 19 Jan 2011 03:46:53 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/error-in-timechart-command-and-too-many-bins/m-p/28158#M5530 Dan 2011-01-19T03:46:53Z