Data Visualization components

Data Visualization components, available from the Information Discovery section of the Add Component dialog, provide more detailed or alternate views of the data.

Alerts

Displays messages to users to highlight values for those records. For example, alerts can be used to flag attribute values that fall outside of a specific range.

Alerts component showing alerts lists for two alerts categories
The Alerts component configuration includes:
  • Whether users can use an alert to refine the data
  • The EQL query for each alert
  • The text of the alert messages

Chart

Displays data using standard chart formats, including:
  • Bar charts
  • Line charts
  • Area charts
  • Pie charts
  • Scatter charts
  • Bubble charts

Users may be able to select different metric or dimensions in order to change the chart display.

Chart component showing a stacked vertical bar chart
The Chart component configuration includes:
  • The chart type
  • The dimensions and metrics to display on the chart
  • The chart style, including options for displaying the chart legend and axes
  • Whether end users can change the chart metrics and dimensions

Map

Displays one or more sets of geographic locations.

Users can search for locations, and display details for a specific location.

Map component showing locations for two location sets
The Map component configuration includes:
  • The available search options
  • The lists of locations, including:
    • EQL queries to generate the lists
    • Sorting and pagination options
    • The attributes to include in the location details

Metrics Bar

Provides a quick view of metrics that summarize various aspects of the data. Users can display additional messages related to the metric value.

Metrics Bar component with two metrics and a warning message
The Metrics Bar component configuration includes:
  • The EQL queries to generate the metrics
  • The format for each metric value
  • Rules for displaying the metric value based on the current value

Pivot Table

Generates a table that allows users to perform comparisons and identify trends across several cross sections of data.

Users can export the data to a spreadsheet, and may be permitted to change the table layout.

Example of a Pivot Table component
The Pivot Table component configuration includes:
  • The metrics and dimensions to display
  • Highlighting for specific metric values
  • Available actions
  • Other display options such as the table height and the column width

Tag Cloud

Displays the distribution of text values for an attribute in the current data. Values that occur more frequently or are more relevant are in larger and bolder type.

Example of a Tag Cloud component

When the values are displayed by frequency, the component may instead show the number of matches for each value.


Tag Cloud showing the number of matches for each value

Users may be able to use the values to refine the data.

The Tag Cloud component configuration includes:
  • The attribute to use
  • The number of values to display
  • Whether to display values based on frequency or relevancy
  • When displaying by frequency, whether to display the number of matches
  • Whether users can use the values to refine the data