Visualizations - Example Work Flows

This section includes examples for configuring the visualizations:

• TSVB Chart Displaying Traffic Trend
• Pie Chart Displaying Alarms Summary
• Metric Displaying Card Count
• Bar Chart for Alarms by Severity

TSVB Chart Displaying Traffic Trend

To create a TSVB chart that shows traffic trend for every five minutes:

1. Click Create Visualization. In the New Visualization page, select TSVB.

2. Click Panel Options.



3. Select or enter the following details under Data:

Index Pattern	fmstats*
Time field	Timestamp
Interval	Must be >=5 minutes
Drop last bucket	Must be checked

4. Click Data and Select Metrics.

Select or enter the following details:

Label: Configure the label as Max Rate (Bytes/s)
Aggregation	Max
Field	port.rx.octets.Rps
Create another aggregation
Aggregation	Series Agg
Function	Sum
Group By	Terms
By	PortIdToClusterId
Top	10
Order by	Max of port.rx.octets.Rps

5. Select Options.



Data Formatter	Bytes
Template	Values/s

5. Click Save to save the visualization.

Note:  Use the chart type option allows you to configure the chart.

Pie Chart Displaying Alarms Summary

To create a pie chart that shows alarm summary:

1. Click Create Visualization. In the New Visualization page, select Pie.
2. Select the data source for the visualization. It can be either an index pattern or a saved search object. In this example, Alarm Summary is selected as the data source.
3. Click Data.  Configure the Metrics and Buckets as shown in the following figure.

   

   • Aggregation function: Select Unique Count. This returns the number of unique values in a field.
   • Field values: _Id and Type can be changed as per your requirements
     • Field value _Id: The field that you want to visualize (in the example, id is being used because it is unique for each node)
     • Field value Type: The Field that you want to use to split the pie chart (in the example, type is being used to slice the chart)
4. Click Update to update the visualization.

Note:  Use the Options tab to configure the required visual effects such as configuring the pie chart as a donut, adjusting the position of the legend, and so on.

Metric Displaying Card Count

To create a Metric visualization that shows the number of cards:

1. Click Create Visualization. In the New Visualization page, select Metric.
2. Select the data source for the visualization. It can be either an index pattern or a saved search object.
3. Configure the Aggregation as Count.
4. In the Add Filer option, configure the following:
   • Filter: resource.type
   • Operator: is
   • Value: Card
5. Click Update.

Refer to the following image:

Note:  Use the Options tab to configure the required visual effects such as adjusting the font size.

Bar Chart for Alarms by Severity

To create a bar chart that shows the number of alarms based on severity:

1. Click Create Visualization. In the New Visualization page, select Vertical Bar.
2. Select the data source for the visualization. It can be either an index pattern or a saved search object. In this example, fmalarms is selected as the data source.
3. Click Data.  Configure the Metrics and Buckets as shown in the following figure.
• Metrics
  • Aggregation: Count
• Bucket
  • Aggregation: Terms
  • Field: Severity
  • Order by: Metric Count



4. Under Advanced, select Split series and configure the following:
• Sub aggregation: Terms
• Field: resourceType
• Order by: Metric Count



5. Under Metrics & Axes, configure the following:



6. Click Update.