click data point in chart when lines overlap

swazimodo · ‎01-10-2020

I have a chart in a dashboard with multiple lines showing different error types over time. The lines often overlap and if you want to click on a data point you do not have a way to chose which line it is selecting. Clicking on the legend does a search for that entire date range. It would be nice if this just brought that line to the top so you could click a single spot.

Is there anyway to make this work a little easier? I do not want to unstack these into separate charts as then I'll not be able to have a complete summary on one screen.

to4kawa · ‎01-12-2020

<form>
  <label>chart test</label>
  <search id="chart_base">
    <query>| makeresults count=2
| streamstats count
| eval _time=if(count=2,relative_time(_time,"-2d@d"),relative_time(_time,"-1d@d"))
| makecontinuous span=10s _time
| eval error_type="error_".(random() % 9 + 1)
| streamstats count
| eval count = count % 2
| where count=1
| eventstats first(_time) as start last(_time) as end
</query>
    <earliest>0</earliest>
    <sampleRatio>1</sampleRatio>
  </search>
  <fieldset submitButton="false"></fieldset>
   <row>
    <panel>
      <html depends="$alwaysHideCSSStyle$">
         <style>
           #resized_ms div[data-component="splunk-core:/splunkjs/mvc/components/MultiDropdown"],
              width: 400px !important;
              margin-right: auto !important;
           }
         </style>
      </html>
    </panel>
  </row>
  <row>
    <panel>
      <input type="multiselect" token="error" id="resized_ms">
        <label>error_type</label>
        <fieldForLabel>error_type</fieldForLabel>
        <fieldForValue>error_type</fieldForValue>
        <search base="chart_base">
          <query>| stats count by error_type
| table error_type</query>
        </search>
        <default>error_1,error_2,error_3,error_4,error_6,error_5,error_8,error_7,error_9</default>
        <delimiter> OR </delimiter>
        <valuePrefix>error_type=</valuePrefix>
        <suffix> _time >= $selection_earliest$  _time <= $selection_latest$</suffix>
      </input>
    </panel>
  </row>
  <row>
    <panel>
      <chart>
        <search base="chart_base">
          <query>
            |search $error$ 
| timechart span=1h count by error_type
</query>
        </search>
        <selection>
          <set token="selection_earliest">$start$</set>
          <set token="selection_latest">$end$</set>
        </selection>
        <option name="charting.chart">line</option>
        <option name="charting.legend.mode">standard</option>
        <option name="charting.legend.placement">top</option>
        <option name="charting.lineWidth">2</option>
        <option name="height">400</option>
      </chart>
    </panel>
  </row>
</form>

I tried making it, but maybe you need a reset function.

efavreau · ‎01-10-2020

Click and drag on the chart to zoom in on an area, It does not generate a new search. It becomes easier to click on the exact spot on the line you need.

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If this reply helps you, an upvote would be appreciated.

swazimodo · ‎01-10-2020

That definitly helps but does not fix the issue if they exactly overlap. Which is common when using timespan for low numbers of events.

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