TimeChart report with accrued event count

[shorgan]

How can I build a report to show the total count of a specific event over time. All of my timecharts are showing spikes over the time range but not accruing the number throughout.

[lguinn2]

I am not sure what you mean by "accruing the number throughout". It would be helpful to see your actual search.

If you want a timechart that counts events, you can do this

yoursearchhere | timechart count

If you want to specify the time interval you can do this

yoursearchhere | timechart count span=1h

If you want to see the count as an ever-increasing number, I guess you could do this

yoursearchhere 
| timechart count as hourlyCount span=1h
| streamstats sum(hourlyCount) as count