How do I set up a dashboard to show 8 decimal points via the source code(as opposed to the UI)?

[ADRIANODL]

Hi all,

I'm working with very small units of measurement down to 8 decimal digits.

When I try to set up my dashboards to show 0.00000000 via the source code (as opposed to the UI), I get the following warning:

Value "0.00000000" is not in the list of allowed values ["0","0.0","0.00","0.000","0.0000"]
The UI itself only allows me to pick values up to 4 decimal units.

IS there a way to work around such limitation of Splunk?

Cheers,
Adri

[kamlesh_vaghela]

@ADRIANODL

Yes, Precision allowed up to 4 digits. But it is for numbers only. So let's make the value in String. If you have any unit for your value then append to make it a string. Check below dashboard for same.

<dashboard>
  <label>Long Number</label>
  <row>
    <panel>
      <single>
        <search>
          <query>| makeresults | eval A="1.1234567890" | eval A="Unit ".A</query>
          <earliest>-24h@h</earliest>
          <latest>now</latest>
          <sampleRatio>1</sampleRatio>
        </search>
        <option name="drilldown">none</option>
        <option name="refresh.display">progressbar</option>
      </single>
    </panel>
  </row>
</dashboard>

Thanks

[ADRIANODL]

Hi Kamlesh, thanks for your response, it worked to an extent. What happened is that the number was successfully converter to string and it's now showing the 8 decimal digits, however the "trend" doesn't show anymore, since I believe it cannot calculate trends based on strings.

Any ideas?

Cheers

[kamlesh_vaghela]

@ADRIANODL

Yeah. Bcoz trend expects numerical values to calculate difference over different time periods. If we convert it to String then trend doesn't work.

But you can try a workaround. Use your existing code block and do following changes.
1) append dummy search YOUR_SEARCH | append [ | makeresults | eval count="" | table count ]. Change precision to 0. It will show you zero value with a trend.
2) Now, we need our value with 8 digit precision. Execute a search separately and set XML token token_abc. Use this token in unit option of the single view.<option name="unit">$token_abc$</option>

You will see just extra 0 in the chart as I believe.