Sunburst

This applies to: Visual Data Discovery

Use sunburst visuals to display up to three levels of hierarchical data in a circle format.

The topmost hierarchical data is shown in the center of the sunburst, and the secondary levels are shown in levels further out from the center. You can include a third level of hierarchical data by enabling Enable Level 3 Group in the settings sidebar menu of the visual.

Note: To edit the number or date and time format for this visual, see Configure Number Formatting for Visuals and Configure Date and Time Formatting for Visuals.

Support for this feature by connector is shown in the following table.

Key:Y - Supported; N - Not Supported; N/A - not applicable

Connector	Supported?	Notes
Amazon Redshift	Y
Amazon S3	Y
Apache Drill	Y
Apache Phoenix	Y
Apache Phoenix Query Server (QS)	Y
Apache Solr	Y
BigQuery	Y	If you need to access a BigQuery partition, explicitly include an alias for the built in partition column in your select clause, such as select *, _PARTITIONTIME as pt from projectId.datasetId.tableId.
Cloudera Impala	Y
Cloudera Search	Y
Couchbase	Y
Dremio	Y
Elasticsearch 7.0	Y
Elasticsearch 8.0	Y
File Upload	Y
HDFS	Y
Hive	Y
Jira	Y
MemSQL	Y
Microsoft SQL Server	Y
MongoDB	Y
MySQL	Y
Oracle	Y
PostgreSQL	Y
Python	Y
Real Time Sales	Y
Salesforce	Y
SAP Hana	Y
SAP IQ	Y
SAP S/4HANA	Y
Spark SQL	Y
Snowflake	Y
Teradata	Y
TIBCO DV	Y
Trino	Y
File Upload (Upload API)	Y
Vertica	Y

This topic describes:

• Configure Colors for a Specific Sunburst

• Sort Data in a Sunburst Visual

Sort Data in a Sunburst Visual

Data in your visual is sorted Top of the Top if only two groups are included in the visual.

When you add a third group by enabling Enable Level 3 Group, simple sort is used instead.

Configure Colors for a Specific Sunburst

Specify the color settings for a specific sunburst using the Color sidebar

1. Edit the visual you want to modify. See Edit Visuals.

2. If you are editing the visual in a dashboard, select Settings from the visual drop-down menu. The sidebar menu for the visual appears. If you are editing the visual from the Visual Gallery, the sidebar appears to the right of the visual.

   Select on the sidebar menu. The Color sidebar for the visual appears.

   

3. Configure the color settings as described below. As you change the color settings, the legend at the top of the Color sidebar shows how the legend will appear on the visual. Supported color specifications are described in Specify Colors.

   Setting	Description
   Legend	Enable or disable to display a dynamic legend in this visual. Dynamic legends allow you to temporarily add or remove data shown in the visual. For distinct color styles, select a data point in the legend to turn it off and on in the visual. Use the color selector to manually assign colors for legend items.
   Color Metric	Select the metric that affects the segment color in the visual. You can also define the default aggregation function used for the metric values: SUM, AVG, MAX, MIN, or (for some data sources) LAST VALUE. See Metric Aggregation Functions.
   Color Palette	If a color palette is specified for this visual type in the data source defaults, select the color palette for this specific visual. If a color range is selected for KPI visuals in the data source defaults, this setting is not available. Select the Inherit from theme checkbox to use the color palette specified by the theme.
   Color Mode	Select Distinct Colors or Gradient to identify the way colors are used on the screen. Either specific distinct colors will be used or a gradient of colors will be used.
   Threshold Mode	If you selected the Gradient color mode, this setting cannot be changed. If you selected the Distinct Colors color mode, select either Auto or Manual from the drop-down list. Auto will automatically assign thresholds and colors for the visual. Manual allows you to change the thresholds and colors used on the visual.
   Number of colors	Specify the number of colors to use for the visual.
   Color Rules	Color rules allow you to change the colors for each color used for the visual. In addition, if you specified a Manual threshold mode, you can select the thresholds used for color settings in the visual.

4. Close the Color sidebar and the color settings are dynamically applied to the visual.

5. Select to save the dashboard and the visual with its updated settings.