Time Series Chart Overview

Time series charts are graphical representations of your activity over time.

Peaks and valleys that are displayed in the charts depict high and low volume activity. Time series charts are useful for short-term and long term trending of data.

Using time series charts, you can access, navigate, and investigate log or network activity from various views and perspectives.

To display time series charts, you must create and save a search that includes time series and grouping options. You can save up to 100 time series searches.

Default time series saved searches are accessible from the list of available searches on the event or flow search page.

You can easily identify saved time series searches on the Quick Searches menu, because the search name is appended with the time range specified in the search criteria.

If your search parameters match a previously saved search for column definition and grouping options, a time series chart might automatically display for your search results. If a time series chart does not automatically display for your unsaved search criteria, no previously saved search criteria exists to match your search parameters. If this occurs, you must enable time series data capture and save your search criteria.

You can magnify and scan a timeline on a time series chart to investigate activity. The following table provides functions that you can use to view time series charts.