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A great Charting Problem!

Dark_Ichigo
Builder

I do not understand why Im currently having this problem, I have never had this problem before when creating charts with splunk!

The problem is when using the follwing search to create a chart with span=5m within a Timestamp of a whole Month:

index="INDEX" GET* | timechart bins=50000 span=5m count

I only get three days, and the rest of the days seem to shift to the right of the chart and disappear as it loads!

This is a very weird behaviour, I dont understand why its behaving like this, the flashtime search works fine with all the results for that month, but when creating the chart it doesn't seem to work normally

1 Solution

Takajian
Builder

The maximum points of x-axis is 1000 points in splunk chart. Therefore you will not be able to create monthly report with such a small time span like 5m. Can you change time span to span=1d ? Then you will see whole chart in the month. You will need to adjust them to what you want to see.

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arthurjspencer
Engager

In simple XML you can increase the number of points in a chart by including.

5000

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Takajian
Builder

The maximum points of x-axis is 1000 points in splunk chart. Therefore you will not be able to create monthly report with such a small time span like 5m. Can you change time span to span=1d ? Then you will see whole chart in the month. You will need to adjust them to what you want to see.

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