Create a report from a sparkline chart

In this example, you create a report that shows the trends in the number of purchases made over time. This example uses sparkline charts. Sparklines are inline charts that appear in the search results table and are designed to display time-based trends associated with the primary key of each row.

For searches that use the stats and chart commands, you can add sparkline charts to the results table.

Prerequisite
This example requires the productName field from the Enabling field lookups section. You must complete all of those steps before continuing with this section.

Steps

1. Start a new search.
2. Set the time range to All time.
3. Run the following search.

   sourcetype=access_* status=200 action=purchase| chart sparkline(count) AS "Purchases Trend" count AS Total BY categoryId | rename categoryId AS "Category"

   This search uses the chart command to count the number of purchases by using action="purchase". The search specifies the purchases made for each product by using categoryId. The difference is that the count of purchases is now an argument of the sparkline() function.

   

4. Click Save As and select Report.
5. In the Save Report As dialog box, for Title type Purchasing trends.
6. For Description, type Count of purchases with trending.
   
   
7. Click Save.
8. In the confirmation dialog box, click View.

Next step

This completes Part 6 of the Search Tutorial.

Up to now, you have saved searches as Reports. Continue to Part 7: Creating dashboards, where you learn how to save searches and reports as dashboard panels.

See also

chart command in the Search Reference
Add sparklines to your search results in the Search Manual