Improvements in canvas visualizations

Standardized tooltips

As a continuation of our efforts to standardize tooltips across visualizations, we’ve updated canvas visualization tooltips to be supported for all elements tied to data. Besides the element name and data, the tooltip now also displays the timestamp. This is a step forward from the previous implementation where tooltips were shown only if data links were configured.

Data links improvements

We’ve updated canvas visualizations so that you can add data links to canvas elements without using an override. The Selected element configuration now includes a Data links section where you can add data links to elements using the same steps as in other visualizations.

Data links in canvas elements can also be configured to open with a single click. To enable this functionality, select Link under the one One-click section in the Selected element data link options. If there are multiple data links for an element, the first link in the list has the one-click functionality.

As part of this improvement, we’ve also added the ability to control the order in which data links are displayed by dragging and dropping them. This improvement has been added to all visualizations.

In future releases, we’ll add one-click functionality to data links in other Grafana visualizations.