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Tables are a highly flexible visualization designed to display data in columns and rows. The table visualization can take multiple datasets and provide the option to switch between them. With this versatility, it’s the preferred visualization for viewing multiple data types, aiding in your data analysis needs.

You can use a table visualization to show datasets such as:

• Common database queries like logs, traces, metrics
• Financial reports
• Customer lists
• Product catalogs

Any information you might want to put in a spreadsheet can often be best visualized in a table.

Tables also provide different styles to visualize data inside the table cells, such as colored text and cell backgrounds, gauges, sparklines, data links, JSON code, and images.

Configure a table visualization

The following video provides a visual walkthrough of the options you can set in a table visualization. If you want to see a configuration in action, check out the video:

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Supported data formats

The table visualization supports any data that has a column-row structure.

Example

This example shows a basic dataset in which there’s data for every table cell:

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Column1, Column2, Column3
value1 , value2 , value3
value4 , value5 , value6
value7 , value8 , value9

If a cell is missing or the table column-row structure is not complete, as in the following example, the table visualization won’t display any of the data:

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Column1, Column2, Column3
value1 , value2 , value3
gap1   , gap2
value4 , value5 , value6

If you need to hide columns, you can do so using data transformations, field overrides, or by building a query that returns only the needed columns.

Column filtering

You can temporarily change how column data is displayed using column filtering. For example, you can show or hide specific values.

Turn on column filtering

To turn on column filtering, follow these steps:

1. In Grafana, navigate to the dashboard with the table with the columns that you want to filter.
2. Hover over any part of the panel to which you want to add the link to display the actions menu on the top right corner.
3. Click the menu and select Edit.
4. In the panel editor pane, expand the Table options section.
5. Toggle on the Column filter switch.

A filter icon (funnel) appears next to each column title.

Filter column values

To filter column values, follow these steps:

1. Click the filter icon (funnel) next to a column title.

   Grafana displays the filter options for that column.

2. Click the checkbox next to the values that you want to display or click Select all.

3. Enter text in the search field at the top to show those values in the display so that you can select them rather than scroll to find them.

4. Choose from several operators to display column values:

   • Contains - Matches a regex pattern (operator by default).
   • Expression - Evaluates a boolean expression. The character $ represents the column value in the expression (for example, “$ >= 10 && $ <= 12”).
   • The typical comparison operators: =, !=, <, <=, >, >=.

5. Click the checkbox above the Ok and Cancel buttons to add or remove all displayed values to and from the filter.

Clear column filters

Columns with filters applied have a blue filter displayed next to the title.

To remove the filter, click the blue filter icon and then click Clear filter.

Apply ad hoc filters from the table

In tables, you can apply ad hoc filters directly from the visualization with one click.

To display the filter icons, hover your cursor over the cell that has the value for which you want to filter:

For more information about applying ad hoc filters this way, refer to Dashboard drilldown with ad hoc filters.

Sort columns

Click a column title to change the sort order from default to descending to ascending. Each time you click, the sort order changes to the next option in the cycle. You can sort multiple columns by holding the Cmd or Ctrl key and clicking the column name.

Dataset selector

If the data queried contains multiple datasets, a table displays a drop-down list at the bottom, so you can select the dataset you want to visualize. This option is only available when you’re editing the panel.

Configuration options

Panel options

Table options

Table footer options

The table footer displays the results of calculations (and reducer functions) on fields. The footer is only displayed after you select an option in the Calculation drop-down list:

There are several calculations you can choose from including minimum, maximum, first, last, and total. For the full list of options, refer to Calculations.

In the table footer:

• You can apply multiple calculations at once.
• The calculations and reducer functions apply to all fields in the table, by default. To control which fields have a calculation or function applied, add the table footer in an override instead.
• If you enable a mathematical function for a non-numeric field, nothing for that function is displayed for that field.

In the following image, multiple calculations—Mean, Max, and Last—have been applied:

You can also see in the previous image that the mathematical functions, Mean and Max, haven’t been applied to the text field in the table. Only the Last function has been applied to that field.

Cell options

Cell options allow you to control how data is displayed in a table. The options are differ based on the cell type that you select and are outlined within the descriptions of each cell type. The following table provides short descriptions for each cell type and links to a longer description and the cell type options.

Cell type

By default, Grafana automatically chooses display settings. You can override these settings by choosing one of the following cell types to control the default display for all fields. Additional configuration is available for some cell types.

If you want to apply a cell type to only some fields instead of all fields, you can do so using the Cell options > Cell type field override.

Auto

This is a basic text and number cell.

It has the following cell options:

Colored text

If thresholds, value mappings, or color schemes are set, the cell text is displayed in the appropriate color.

The colored text cell type has the following options:

Colored background

If thresholds, value mappings, or color schemes are set, the cell background is displayed in the appropriate color.

You can also set background cell color by row:

The colored background cell type has the following options:

Data links

If you’ve configured data links, when the cell type is Auto, the cell text becomes clickable. If you change the cell type to Data links, the cell text reflects the titles of the configured data links. To control the application of data link text more granularly, use a Cell option > Cell type > Data links field override.

Gauge

With this cell type, cells can be displayed as a graphical gauge, with several different presentation types.

The gauge cell type has the following options:

Gauge display mode

You can set three gauge display modes.

Option	Description
Basic	Shows a simple gauge with the threshold levels defining the color of gauge.
Gradient	The threshold levels define a gradient.
Retro LCD	The gauge is split up in small cells that are lit or unlit.

Value display

Labels displayed alongside of the gauges can be set to be colored by value, match the theme text color, or be hidden.

Option	Description
Value color	Labels are colored by value.
Text color	Labels match the theme text color.
Hidden	Labels are hidden.

Sparkline

This cell type shows values rendered as a sparkline. To show sparklines on data with multiple time series, use the Time series to table transformation to process it into a format the table can show.

The sparkline cell type options are described in the following table. For more detailed information about all of the sparkline styling options (except Hide value), refer to the time series graph styles documentation.

JSON View

This cell type shows values formatted as code. If a value is an object the JSON view allowing browsing the JSON object will appear on hover.

For the JSON view cell type, you can set enable Cell value inspect. This enables value inspection from table cells. When the switch is toggled on, clicking the inspect icon in a cell opens the Inspect value drawer which contains two tabs: Plain text and Code editor.

Toggle on the Tooltip from field switch to use the values from another field (or column) in a tooltip. For more information, refer to Tooltip from field.

Grafana attempts to automatically detect the type of data in the cell and opens the drawer with the associated tab showing. However, you can switch back and forth between tabs.

Pill

The Pill cell type displays each item in a comma-separated string in a colored block.

The colors applied to each piece of text are maintained throughout the table. For example, if the word “test” is first displayed in a red pill, it will always be displayed in a red pill.

The following data formats are supported for the pill cell type:

• Comma-separated values (cows,chickens,goats)
• JSON arrays of uniform ((["cows","chickens","goats"])) or mixed ([1,2,3,"foo",42,"bar"]) types

Toggle on the Tooltip from field switch to use the values from another field (or column) in a tooltip. For more information, refer to Tooltip from field.

Markdown + HTML

The Markdown + HTML cell type displays rich Markdown or HTML content, rendered using the GitHub-Flavored Markdown spec. This is useful if you need to display customized, pre-formatted information alongside tabular data, such as formatted strings, lists of links, or other dynamic cases.

For this cell type, you can toggle the Dynamic height switch, which allows the cell to resize dynamically based on the cell content. If you use dynamic height, we strongly recommend that you also toggle on Pagination to avoid performance issues in larger tables, since enabling Dynamic height disables table virtualization.

By default, the HTML rendered is sanitized, and un-sanitized HTML can only be rendered in these cells if the disable_sanitize_html option is set to true for your Grafana instance.

Toggle on the Tooltip from field switch to use the values from another field (or column) in a tooltip. For more information, refer to Tooltip from field.

Image

If you have a field value that is an image URL or a base64 encoded image, this cell type displays it as an image.

It has the following options:

Actions

The cell displays a button that triggers a basic, unauthenticated API call when clicked. Configure the API call with the following options:

Tooltip from field

Toggle on the Tooltip from field switch to use the values from another field (or column) in a tooltip.

When you toggle the switch on, you can select from a drop-down list any of the fields in the table to be used as the source of the tooltip content. All table fields are included in the drop-down list, whether visible or hidden.

When a tooltip from a field has been added to a cell, a chip is displayed in the top-right or top-left corner of the cell:

Hover your mouse over the chip to display the tooltip.

When you toggle on the switch, the Tooltip placement option, which controls where the tooltip box opens upon hover, is also displayed. Select one of the following options: Auto, Top, Right, Bottom, and Left.

The content of the tooltip is determined by the values of the source field and can’t be directly edited. However, you can affect the display of the value using overrides like value mappings, as shown in the Example: Tooltip from field with value mappings section.

While you can turn on this option under Cell options, and have it applied to all cells in the table, it’s typically used as an override on a sub-set of cells instead. This is demonstrated in the example in the following section.

Example: Tooltip from field using overrides

The following table has five visible fields (columns) as well as a hidden field called “Info”:

• The “Info” field is hidden using the Table > Hide in table override property.
• The following overrides have been applied to the “Short text” field:
  • The values from the “Info” field are used as tooltip text for the “Short text” cells using the Cell options > Tooltip from field override property.
  • The Cell options > Tooltip placement override property is set to control the placement of the tooltip.

Now, when you hover the cursor over the chip in the “Short text” column, the corresponding values from the “Info” column appear in the tooltip:

Example: Tooltip from field with value mappings

While the content of the tooltip is determined by the values of the source field and can’t be directly edited, you can use field overrides on the source field to manipulate the display of that value.

For example, if the “Info” column is being used as the source field for the tooltip values, you could set up a value mapping. In this case, the value “up” is mapped to the word “Good”:

Now, when you hover the cursor over the chip in the “Short text” cell, the mapped value appears in the tooltip:

You can use all field overrides to affect the display of the tooltip. For example, the Table > Column width or Cell options > Cell type overrides can change the cell width or visual display of the data.

Standard options

Data links and actions

Value mappings

Thresholds

Field overrides