Sparklines

Growing in popularity as a data visualization option, Sparklines are inline charts that represent the general shape of a variation (typically over time) in some measurement (such as miles per gallon or home value), in a simple and highly condensed way. Splunk provides the ability for you to add Sparklines to stats and chart searches, improving their usefulness and overall information density.

A simple Splunk search example like

sourcetype=csv "0001" "USD" | chart AVG(Jan) by PERIOD

creates the following results table:

Sparklines

As you can see, the preceding example of a search, generates a table that shows average amounts by the field PERIOD—just two ...

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