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How do I create a stacked bar chart with my data set?

dantu
Explorer

Hi Guys,

I have the following data set that i retrieve using a search :

host           calltype       count

pc4bwsoap03 odata/v2       4931
pc4bwsoap03 sfapi/v1       134
pc4bwsoap03 api/oauth     13
pc4bwsoap03 xi/ajax     9
pc4bwsoap03 api/cdp     9
pc4bwsoap04 sfapi/v1    642
pc4bwsoap04 odata/v2      449
pc4bwsoap04 api/oauth     28
pc4bwsoap04 xi/ajax     24
pc4bwsoap04 api/cdp     23

Now in this you see the reappearance across multiple hosts of something like odata/v2 , sfapi/v1

Now how do I generate a stacked graph for this so that one of the axis is the host and it has one bar which represents the 2nd column instead of multiple bars?

Thank you
Dan

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woodcock
Esteemed Legend

What is your search to generate this data?

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alacercogitatus
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

Not sure of you main search, but this might help you:

 <your_search>  | contingency host calltype useother=f

This will provide a table of the counts by host and calltype. You can then use a Stacked bar chart to visualize the data.

There is an alternative to contingency in case you need to do a more advanced calculation.

<your_search> | chart sum(counts) by host over calltype 

This should return the same table, to use in the graph.

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dantu
Explorer

Thanks for that.

the search that i am doing is a simple one. I have created a field extraction to extract the 2nd column of that table.

So when you actually do a top limit=5 it shows that there are two types for it .

Would it work then?

Thank you
Dan

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alacercogitatus
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

Ah ok, so I think you are pulling that table as a single event. In that case:

<your_search_to_find_the_event> | rex field=_raw "(?<host>[^\s]+)\s+(?<calltype>[^\s]+)\s+(?<count>\d+)(?:[\r\n]+)?" max_match=0 | <contingency_or_chart_as above>
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