Dashboards & Visualizations

Create timechart without a field name

123michi19
Explorer

Hi @ all,

how could I create a timechart if I have just a error message and no field value?

For example:
index="*" thisistheerrormessage | timechart thisistheerrormessage span=1h

Thanks and BR,
Michael

Labels (1)
Tags (1)
0 Karma
1 Solution

efavreau
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

@123michi19 Count the events and chart when those event happened over time like this:
index="*" thisistheerrormessage | timechart span=1h count

###

If this reply helps you, an upvote would be appreciated.

View solution in original post

0 Karma

efavreau
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

@123michi19 Count the events and chart when those event happened over time like this:
index="*" thisistheerrormessage | timechart span=1h count

###

If this reply helps you, an upvote would be appreciated.
0 Karma

123michi19
Explorer

Thanks for your answer. That works fine. The only problem for me is: I see as describer in the timechart the word "count". How can I get the error message instead of count?

BR

0 Karma

niketn
Legend

Try the following:

| timechart span=1h count as "thisistheerrormessage"
____________________________________________
| makeresults | eval message= "Happy Splunking!!!"

123michi19
Explorer

Yes, that's fantastic.
Thanks both for your help 🙂

niketn
Legend

Anytime 🙂

____________________________________________
| makeresults | eval message= "Happy Splunking!!!"
0 Karma
Got questions? Get answers!

Join the Splunk Community Slack to learn, troubleshoot, and make connections with fellow Splunk practitioners in real time!

Meet up IRL or virtually!

Join Splunk User Groups to connect and learn in-person by region or remotely by topic or industry.

Get Updates on the Splunk Community!

Best Practices: Splunk auto adjust pipeline queue

When you enable autoAdjustQueue in Splunk, maxSize should be understood as the queue size Splunk starts with ...

Introducing the 2026 - 2027 SplunkTrust cohort!

The goal of the SplunkTrust™ membership has historically been to acknowledge and recognize those who go above ...

Splunk Auto Ingestion Parallel Pipeline Scaling

Why this feature matters Many Splunk environments experience ingestion pressure long before the host is fully ...