The field picker is very useful for investigating and navigating data. Clicking on any field in the field picker pops open a panel with a wealth of information about that field in the results of your search:
Looking through the information, we observe the following:
- Number (of) values, appears in X% of results tells you how many events contain a value for this field.
- Selected indicates if the field is a selected field.
- Top values and Top values by time (allows referring to the Top 10 Values returned in the search) present graphs about the data in this search. This is a great way to dive into reporting and graphing. ...