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Bubble charts

Use a bubble chart to visualize multiple series data in three dimensions. Bubble position represents two dimensions of the data series. Bubble size represents the third dimension.

A bubble chart

Data formatting

To create a bubble chart, start with a search that generates multiple data series. Use this syntax to generate the series.

... | <stats_command> <y-axis_field> <x-axis_field> <bubble_size_field><bubble_color_field>

Generate a bubble chart

  1. Select the Add chart button ( The Add Chart button in the editing toolbar. ) in the editing toolbar and browse through the available charts. Choose the bubble chart.
  2. Select the chart on your dashboard to highlight it with the blue editing outline.
  3. Set up a new data source by selecting + Create search and adding a search to the SPL query window. Or, you can select an existing data source under the Search, Saved search, or Chain search sections.
  4. (Optional) You can also write a new ID that describes the search better than the default by changing the ID in Data source name.
  5. Select Apply and close.

Configuration Panel options for bubble charts

You can use the Configuration panel to configure the following bubble chart components.

Title

Give your visualization a name. This is also helpful when searching for individual visualizations in the dashboard definitions. This name is not the same as the automatically assigned unique ID.

Description

Give your visualization a description to explain what the user is viewing.

Data Sources

Choose an existing ad hoc search or create a new one.

Position & Size
You can use your mouse to change the size or location of the visualization, or the Position & Size section of the Configuration panel for pixel perfect sizing and placement.

Axes

  • Use X Axis title to name your x-axis.
  • Use Y Axis title to name your y-axis.

Legend

  • Use Position to choose the position of the legend.
  • Use Truncation to choose how legend labels are truncated when they overflow the layout boundaries by choosing where to place ellipses (...)

Drilldown
Drilldown for a bubble chart lets users click on a part of the chart to open an internal or external URL.

Code
Select your visualization or its search to view and edit the source code in real-time. You can also change the Visualization ID to a more readable ID to help identify this visualization in the source code.

Configure the bubble chart display options

A single group-by field in the query generates a visualization with all bubbles in the same color. To get series colors with the stats command, use two or more group-by fields. This generates a bubble for each unique combination of fields. The value of the field you choose determines the series color.

For example, the following search generates four columns of data in the statistics table.

index = _internal sourcetype=splunkd_access | stats count sum(bytes) as total_bytes by status, date_hour | table status date_hour count total_bytes status

The four columns can be used to determine the size of the bubbles, the field values of the x and y-axis, and the colors of the bubbles. For example: 

"options": {
	"x": "> primary | seriesByIndex(0)",
	"y": "> primary | seriesByIndex(1)",
	"size": "> primary | seriesByIndex(2)",
	"category": "> primary | seriesByIndex(3)"
 }

primary[n-1] (with n equal to the actual order of the columns) represents the order of the field columns. You can also use field column names, for example: 

"options": {
	"x": "> primary | seriesByName(\"date_hour\")",
	"y": "> primary | seriesByName(\"count\")",
	"size": "> primary | seriesByName(\"total_bytes\")",
	"category": "> primary | seriesByName(\"status\")"
 }

There are additional options that can only be set in the source editor. For a complete list of options available, see: Bubble chart.

Examples

The following graph uses options and settings that are not available in the visual editor. Expand the dashboard definition to view the options and settings used. The search used to generate the chart is

index=_internal sourcetype=splunkd_access | stats count sum(bytes) as total_bytes by status, date_hour | table date_hour count total_bytes status

The chart also uses the category option to format the data series. 

{
   "type": "splunk.bubble",
   "dataSources": {
       "primary": "ds_ICPlkaoR"
   },
   "title": "Bubble Chart",
   "description": "Bubble charts can help visualize data in three dimensions",
   "showProgressBar": false,
   "showLastUpdated": false,
   "options": {
       "category": "> primary | seriesByIndex(3)",
       "xAxisTitleText": "Hour",
       "yAxisTitleText": "Count"
   },
   "context": {}
}


A bubble graph

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Bubble chart example

Expand this window to see the dashboard definition of the bubble graph.

Source options for bubble charts

You can customize your dashboard with the Dashboard Studio UI or set options in the source editor for splunk.bubble. The UI and source options both produce the same design results.

Additionally, you can write advanced configurations in the source editor using selector and formatting functions and dynamic options syntax. For more details, see Modify and write dynamic options syntax.

Add source options to the options field of the visualization stanza. The following example shows the addition of background color settings using a hexadecimal code: 

"viz_25NNIqLF": {
  "type": "splunk.bubble",
  "options": {
    "backgroundColor": "#0000FF",
  },
  "dataSources": {
    "primary": "ds_gcEN4c7Q"
  }
}


To read more on how visualization stanzas are structured see: The source code stanza of a visualization. Below are all of the options available.

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Bubble chart options

The following options are available for editing bubble charts in the source editor:


Last modified on 08 August, 2024
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This documentation applies to the following versions of Splunk® Enterprise: 9.1.0, 9.1.1, 9.1.2, 9.1.3, 9.1.4, 9.1.5, 9.1.6, 9.1.7, 9.1.8, 9.2.0, 9.2.1, 9.2.2, 9.2.3, 9.2.4, 9.2.5, 9.3.0, 9.3.1, 9.3.2, 9.3.3

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