OMC HOW-TO: Using Line Charts in Log Analytics to graph numeric fields

Summary

Log Analytics captures a lot of numeric/metric type data and you can use our Line Chart to visualize these.

Content

Log Analytics can collect a lot of numeric metric-type data. From bytes downloaded in an access log to IO bytes read/written in a network switch log. Log analytics provides features to graph these numeric values using the line chart visualization.

Line Chart Visualization

 Use line chart to track a value trends over time. This graph shows average Duration over time grouped by log source. Since the log query filtered on a single log source here, you only see one value.