topic Slanted X axis labels on bar or line charts in Splunk Search

Slanted X axis labels on bar or line charts

pbunce1 — Fri, 16 Nov 2012 12:43:01 GMT

I have some line/column graphs where I have quite a few X axis labels that are relativly long (time / date) fields of txt

I would like to include quite a few data points on my graphs but due to the length of the labels that I need to display, I cannot fit too many entries on the X axis before running out of room.

Is it possible to have slanted/rotated X axis labels so that I can fit many more data points on my graph yet still dispaly the longer key for eah point on the X Axis?

Thanks

Re: Slanted X axis labels on bar or line charts

jonuwz — Fri, 16 Nov 2012 17:26:18 GMT

Yup.

<module name="HiddenChartFormatter">
  <param name="charting.axisLabelsX.majorLabelStyle.useBitmapRendering">true</param>
  <param name="charting.axisLabelsX.majorLabelStyle.useBitmapSmoothing">true</param>
  <param name="charting.axisLabelsX.majorLabelStyle.bitmapSmoothingQuality">8</param>
  <param name="charting.axisLabelsX.majorLabelStyle.bitmapSmoothingSharpness">5</param>
  <param name="charting.axisLabelsX.majorLabelStyle.defaultTextFormat">{size:16}</param>
  <param name="charting.axisLabelsX.majorLabelStyle.rotation">45</param>
  <module name="FlashChart"/>
</module>

By setting charting.axisLabelsX.majorLabelStyle.useBitmapRendering = true, you turn the textBlock into a sprite, then you get to apply all the cool transforms inherited from layoutSprite and sprite

One of which is rotation.

Re: Slanted X axis labels on bar or line charts

pbunce1 — Mon, 19 Nov 2012 11:54:05 GMT

perfect, just what I was looking for - many thanks, if all works as it looks like it should, our dashboards will be far far more usefull than ever before 🙂

Re: Slanted X axis labels on bar or line charts

cwi — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 17:13:02 GMT

where does this information get placed (file name?)

thx.

Re: Slanted X axis labels on bar or line charts

bwooden — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 17:38:05 GMT

It gets placed in the XML file for the specific chart in question. There are several ways this can be accomplished. One is by navigating to manager -> user interface -> views.