Adding a streaming time range to a visualization

When you are working with streaming data and you want to limit the data in the visualization to a certain time range, you can add a Streaming time range limitation. This way, you can choose to only show data from the latest 5 minutes (or similar).

About this task

For more information about streaming data, see Working with streaming data.

Tip: You can specify a time range directly on a time axis in a visualization. Just click on the axis to open a popup menu.

For more options to specify the time range, use the Visualization properties.

Procedure

Click to select the visualization to configure.
Open the visualization properties and locate the Data section.
Under Data limiting, click Add limitation and choose Streaming data time range.

Tip: You can only use one streaming data time range in each visualization, but you can click the settings icon to edit a previously added limitation.

In the Limit streaming data to a time range dialog, configure the time range as desired.

Option	Description
Column	Select the `DateTime` column you want to use when specifying a time range.
From	Specify a starting point for the time range by selecting a number and a time unit.
To	Specify an end point for the time range by selecting a number and a time unit.
Edit	Click Edit to open the Limit Data Using Expression dialog (installed client), or the Custom expression dialog (in web clients), where you can write your own expression to specify a starting point or an end point for the time range.

When you are done, click OK.

Note: When you select multiple visualizations and open the Limit streaming data to a time range dialog from the Visualization properties panel, a streaming data time range will be added to all selected visualizations. Verify the settings before you apply them by clicking OK.