Solved: How to hide X axis scale in a bar chart

ashutoshwalke · ‎04-08-2021

Hi,

I am unable to hide the X-axis scale in the bar chart. See below screenshot,

I am plotting the chart using below query, where date is a dated field in my logs and name is name for something.

index=* "some splunk query" | chart count(date) by name date

Below are my charting options. I have tried multiple options here as you see below but none of it is actually helping me to hide the X-axis scale.

<option name="charting.axisTitleX.visibility">collapsed</option>
<option name="charting.axisLabelsX.majorTickVisibility">hide</option>
<option name="charting.axisTitleY.visibility">collapsed</option>
<option name="charting.axisTitleY2.visibility">visible</option>
<option name="charting.axisLabelsY.majorTickVisibility">hide</option>
<option name="charting.axisLabelsY2.majorTickVisibility">hide</option>
<option name="charting.axisY.scale">linear</option>
<option name="charting.chart">bar</option>
<option name="charting.chart.showDataLabels">none</option>
<option name="charting.chart.stackMode">stacked100</option>
<option name="charting.drilldown">none</option>
<option name="charting.layout.splitSeries">1</option>
<option name="charting.layout.splitSeries.allowIndependentYRanges">0</option>
<option name="charting.legend.placement">top</option>
<option name="height">229</option>
<option name="refresh.display">progressbar</option>
</chart>

Can someone please help ?

Thanks in advance

ITWhisperer · ‎04-08-2021

You should check (with inspect) what classes are used for the group (<g>) element in the svg and potentially hide it in a style panel e.g.

    <panel depends="$stayhidden$">
      <title>Colour based on previous</title>
      <html>
        <style>
          #yourchart g.highcharts-xaxis-labels{
            display: none;
          }
        </style>
      </html>
    </panel>
    <panel>
      <chart id="yourchart">

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ashutoshwalke · ‎04-08-2021

@ITWhisperer , Any advise ?

ITWhisperer · ‎04-08-2021

You should check (with inspect) what classes are used for the group (<g>) element in the svg and potentially hide it in a style panel e.g.

    <panel depends="$stayhidden$">
      <title>Colour based on previous</title>
      <html>
        <style>
          #yourchart g.highcharts-xaxis-labels{
            display: none;
          }
        </style>
      </html>
    </panel>
    <panel>
      <chart id="yourchart">

ashutoshwalke · ‎04-08-2021

Thanks a lot 🙂 It has helped

Though I struggled a bit to find where exactly this code should be placed in the xml, maybe as I am new to this 🙂 I put it below anyway just if it helps anyone.

Also, for reference on how to check in "Inspect/Developers Tool" see below link

https://www.splunk.com/en_us/blog/customers/splunk-clara-fication-customizing-simplexml-dashboards-w...

<row>
<panel>
<html depends="$alwaysHideCSSStyleHTML$">
<style>
#chart5 g.highcharts-yaxis-labels{
display: none;
}
</style>
</html>
<chart id="chart5">
<title> HI </title>
<search base="base">
<query> my search query </query>
</search>
<option name="charting.axisTitleX.visibility">collapsed</option>
<option name="charting.axisTitleY.visibility">collapsed</option>
<option name="charting.axisTitleY2.visibility">visible</option>
<option name="charting.axisY.scale">linear</option>
<option name="charting.chart">bar</option>
<option name="charting.chart.showDataLabels">none</option>
<option name="charting.chart.stackMode">stacked100</option>
<option name="charting.drilldown">none</option>
<option name="charting.layout.splitSeries">1</option>
<option name="charting.layout.splitSeries.allowIndependentYRanges">0</option>
<option name="charting.legend.placement">top</option>
<option name="height">229</option>
<option name="refresh.display">progressbar</option>
</chart>
</panel>
</row>

ITWhisperer · ‎04-08-2021

I usually find that putting the styling html in a separate panel (as in my example) works best (as it doesn't take up any extra screen real estate), but if the way you have done it works, that's fine too. 😀

How to hide X axis scale in a bar chart

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