Log Scales Visualization

Log scales allow a large range of values to be displayed without small values being compressed down into bottom of the graph.

  1. Open the navigation menu and click Observability & Management. Under Logging Analytics, click Log Explorer.
  2. Search for logs for a set of entities. See Search Logs by Entities.
  3. From the Visualize panel, select any visualization option containing a histogram (open records with histogram and open table with histogram), bar chart (open bar chart and open horizontal bar chart), or line chart (open line chart).
  4. Click Show Log Scale to view the smaller values that aren’t otherwise visible on the chart.
    This option is displayed only when the chart contains bars that aren’t visible. This option is also useful to highlight small values.

For example, the following histogram shows the log records before the log scale is enabled, where the smaller values are not displayed properly:


Visualization before log scale is enabled

With the log scale enabled, the smaller values are now displayed:


Visualization after log scale is enabled