It is a bad idea to try to improve a dashboard by just 'collecting all data' with no aggregations in a base search and then post processing. Firstly there is an event limit unless you aggregate Secondly, even though you want to handle different fields and do different types of calcs, you can always do things like search... | bin _time span=1d | stats count sum(val) as val by _time a b c d and then in post processing searches you can do | stats sum(count) by a OR | stats max(val) by b d and so on. So, look at base searches and see what you can do to make use of a base search.  Grabbing data and then trying to use it in a shared way, will often make your dashboard worse if there is a large data set.   ... View more

thanks for the prompt reply   1. tried it, it works but then I cannot zoom in, just select - any way around it? 2. can give a specific example/reference on how to do it? 3. didnt get to it, lets start with #1/2 🙂 4. explanation - I'd imagine it as having some "legend" on the chart itself with certain statistics I choose to show like average/min/max/other instead of adding a new panel just for a single number. not a must, mainly for how it looks and how easy it is for me to build such things in the future. 5.explanation - looking for a way for a user to filter out anomalies so it it will be easier to understand the graph. for example - right click on a point in the chart and select to remove it. for example - if most of the points range 0-100, and there is one at 15000, you cant get anything from the graph without zooming (and I didnt find a way to only zoom on the y axis) ... View more