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Timechart Sort Asc/Desc

kavyakanne
Engager

After timechart can the columns be sorted either in Ascending/Descending order

 

 

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ITWhisperer
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

You need to have your column named numerically, then transpose, sort, and transpose back again. If you need to you can reset the numeric values after the sort

| makeresults count=5000
| eval response=random()%30
| streamstats count as row 
| eval _time=_time-(row%60)*60
| timechart limit=0 useother=f count by response



| transpose 0 header_field=_time
| sort 0 column
| where column!="_span"
| transpose 0 header_field=column column_name=_time

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ITWhisperer
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

You need to have your column named numerically, then transpose, sort, and transpose back again. If you need to you can reset the numeric values after the sort

| makeresults count=5000
| eval response=random()%30
| streamstats count as row 
| eval _time=_time-(row%60)*60
| timechart limit=0 useother=f count by response



| transpose 0 header_field=_time
| sort 0 column
| where column!="_span"
| transpose 0 header_field=column column_name=_time
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kavyakanne
Engager

ok!

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ITWhisperer
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

Try the solution I proposed - transpose, sort, (remove system-generated field), transpose

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johnhuang
Motivator

When you generate the hour range, convert 1 digit hour to 2 digit, e.g. 00-01, 01-02, etc.

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