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Plot data for two different time ranges in the same visualization?

bigll
Path Finder

Hi.

I found old article on the subject and followed, but I do not see overlaying charts.
My SPL
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index=firewall sourcetype="collector" fqdn="fw.myorg.com" earliest=-2d@d latest=-1d@d
| multikv
| eval ReportKey=today
| append [search index=firewall sourcetype="collector" fqdn="fw.myorg.com" earliest=-4d@d latest=-3d@d
| multikv
| eval ReportKey=yesterday
| eval _time = _time + 2*86400]
| timechart span=1H count by ReportKey

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So I expect it would report by ReportKey instead it shows by NULL
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chart1.jpg
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chart.jpg

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PickleRick
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

A simple mistake. You forgot quotes around values you want to assign to the ReportKey field so Splunk treats those values as field names. As you apparently have no such fields in yoir data you end up with empty (null) values.

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bigll
Path Finder

I think I got it.
Need properly configure "_time" depend on difference in days i.e. for week long difference 
eval _time = _time + 7*86400.

If I am wrong, please advise.

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PickleRick
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

You can also try to fiddle with the timewrap command (but that's just a general idea, I don't have any particular solution in mind at the mkment).

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bigll
Path Finder

I see report by ReportKey now, but graph is leaner I wonder how I can get something like one in articale.
image1small[1].png

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bigll
Path Finder

Thank you very much.

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PickleRick
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

A simple mistake. You forgot quotes around values you want to assign to the ReportKey field so Splunk treats those values as field names. As you apparently have no such fields in yoir data you end up with empty (null) values.

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