@zebrawolf,
Please take a look at this documentation page for step to step tutorial on creating a dynamic chart using data from JSON API.
If you are still facing the issue, kindly create a sample project reproducing the issue you are facing and share it with us over Google-Drive or Onedrive along with the sample data so that we run the code locally, understand the scenario better and help you out?
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Shashi Ranjan
Team CanvasJS