graphing numeric data without skipping categories

[DGray]

Trying to get a distribution of page loading times.

... | chart count by load_time cont=false span=1000

The times (in seconds) go: ... 11, 12, 13, 14, 16, 17, 23

The graph does not display "gaps" in data, since each second is treated as a distinct category, and not as part of a sequence.

How to display every bin, even those with no values?

The documentation claims "If cont=true, bins that have no values will display with a count of 0." However, when I set cont=true, the bins are displayed in lexographic, rather than numeric, order.

[woodcock]

Use cont=true and then fix the order of your fields with one of these solutions:

https://answers.splunk.com/answers/530376/chart-using-span-logs-does-not-show-the-columns-in.html
https://answers.splunk.com/answers/513688/how-to-maintain-the-exact-sequence-of-columns-in-c.html?ch... (see my unaccepted answer).
https://answers.splunk.com/answers/514202/how-to-rename-the-x-axis-points-in-my-chart-from-m.html (see my unaccepted answers).