Opening SharePoint 2013 Search Service Application and viewing the crawl health reports results in the error “The chart cannot be rendered. This may be due to a misconfiguration of the Microsoft SharePoint Server State Service. For more information, contact your server administrator. ”

In order to resolve this error run the commands below from and elevated SharePoint PowerShell 2013 management shell.

$Service = New-SPStateServiceApplication -Name “State Service”
New-SPStateServiceDatabase -Name “State Service DB” -ServiceApplication $Service
New-SPStateServiceApplicationProxy -Name “State Service Proxy” -ServiceApplication $Service -DefaultProxyGroup