Splunk Search

Gap in chart data

Ant1D
Motivator

Hi,

I have a chart that is produced by executing a search with a | timechart command.

As the search is executing, you can see the chart cells appear as shown in the following image:
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But once the search above is finished the following gap appears in the chart data:
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This search has just over 150000 matching events in total. Is this gap appearing because a search limit is being exceeded? How can I stop this from happening?

Help would be much appreciated. Thanks in advance.

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1 Solution

fox
Path Finder

This can be resolved by restructuring the search. Simply add a stats command stage to help the timechart command on it's way. It fixes the issue.

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fox
Path Finder

This can be resolved by restructuring the search. Simply add a stats command stage to help the timechart command on it's way. It fixes the issue.

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sloshburch
Ultra Champion

Are you proposing using both stats and timechart?

For example a search like this is showing gaps for me as well (but searches with smaller time windows show the data does exist and can be generated by timechart)
_some_base_search | timechart span=1d perc90(field)

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