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Time series

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Time series

Time series visualizations are the default way to show the variations of a set of data values over time. Each data point is matched to a timestamp and this time series is displayed as a graph. The visualization can render series as lines, points, or bars and it’s versatile enough to display almost any type of time-series data.

Note
You can migrate from the legacy Graph visualization to the time series visualization. To migrate, open the panel and click the Migrate button in the side pane.

A time series visualization displays an x-y graph with time progression on the x-axis and the magnitude of the values on the y-axis. This visualization is ideal for displaying large numbers of timed data points that would be hard to track in a table or list.

You can use the time series visualization if you need track:

Temperature variations throughout the day
The daily progress of your retirement account
The distance you jog each day over the course of a year

Configure a time series visualization

The following video guides you through the creation steps and common customizations of time series visualizations, and is great for beginners:

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Supported data formats

Time series visualizations require time-series data—a sequence of measurements, ordered in time, and formatted as a table—where every row in the table represents one individual measurement at a specific time. Learn more about time-series data.

The dataset must contain at least one numeric field, and in the case of multiple numeric fields, each one is plotted as a new line, point, or bar labeled with the field name in the tooltip.

Example 1

In the following example, there are three numeric fields represented by three lines in the chart:

Time	value1	value2	value3
2022-11-01 10:00:00	1	2	3
2022-11-01 11:00:00	4	5	6
2022-11-01 12:00:00	7	8	9
2022-11-01 13:00:00	4	5	6

If the time field isn’t automatically detected, you might need to convert the data to a time format using a data transformation.

Example 2

The time series visualization also supports multiple datasets. If all datasets are in the correct format, the visualization plots the numeric fields of all datasets and labels them using the column name of the field.

Query1

Time	value1	value2	value3
2022-11-01 10:00:00	1	2	3
2022-11-01 11:00:00	4	5	6
2022-11-01 12:00:00	7	8	9

Query2

timestamp	number1	number2	number3
2022-11-01 10:30:00	11	12	13
2022-11-01 11:30:00	14	15	16
2022-11-01 12:30:00	17	18	19
2022-11-01 13:30:00	14	15	16

Example 3

If you want to more easily compare events between different, but overlapping, time frames, you can do this by using a time offset while querying the compared dataset:

Query1

Time	value1	value2	value3
2022-11-01 10:00:00	1	2	3
2022-11-01 11:00:00	4	5	6
2022-11-01 12:00:00	7	8	9

Query2

timestamp(-30min)	number1	number2	number3
2022-11-01 10:30:00	11	12	13
2022-11-01 11:30:00	14	15	16
2022-11-01 12:30:00	17	18	19
2022-11-01 13:30:00	14	15	16

When you add the offset, the resulting visualization makes the datasets appear to be occurring at the same time so that you can compare them more easily.

Alert rules

You can link alert rules to time series visualizations in the form of annotations to observe when alerts fire and are resolved. In addition, you can create alert rules from the Alert tab within the panel editor.

Special overrides

The following overrides help you further refine a time series visualization.

Transform override property

Use the Graph styles > Transform override property to transform series values without affecting the values shown in the tooltip, context menu, or legend. Choose from the following transform options:

Constant - Show the first value as a constant line.
Negative Y transform - Flip the results to negative values on the y-axis.

Fill below to override property

The Graph styles > Fill below to override property fills the area between two series. When you configure the property, select the series for which you want the fill to stop.

The following example shows three series: Min, Max, and Value. The Min and Max series have Line width set to 0. Max has a Fill below to override set to Min, which fills the area between Max and Min with the Max line color.

Multiple y-axes

In some cases, you might want to display multiple y-axes. For example, if you have a dataset showing both temperature and humidity over time, you might want to show two y-axes with different units for the two series.

You can configure multiple y-axes and control where they’re displayed in the visualization by adding field overrides. This example of a dataset that includes temperature and humidity describes how you can configure that. Repeat the steps for every y-axis you wish to display.

Pan and zoom panel time range

You can pan the panel time range left and right, and zoom it and in and out. This, in turn, changes the dashboard time range.

Zoom in - Click and drag on the panel to zoom in on a particular time range.

Zoom out - Double-click anywhere on the panel to zoom out the time range.

When you zoom out, the range doubles with each double-click, adding equal time to each side of the range. For example, if the original time range is from 9:00 to 9:59, the time range changes as follow with each double-click:

Next range: 8:30 - 10:29
Next range: 7:30 - 11:29

Pan - Click and drag the x-axis area of the panel to pan the time range.

The time range shifts by the distance you drag. For example, if the original time range is from 9:00 to 9:59 and you drag 30 minutes to the right, the time range changes to 9:30 to 10:29.

For screen recordings showing these interactions, refer to the Panel overview documentation.

Configuration options

The following section describes the configuration options available in the panel editor pane for this visualization. These options are, as much as possible, ordered as they appear in Grafana.

Panel options

In the Panel options section of the panel editor pane, set basic options like panel title and description, as well as panel links. To learn more, refer to Configure panel options.

Tooltip options

Tooltip options control the information overlay that appears when you hover over data points in the visualization.

Option	Description
Tooltip mode	When you hover your cursor over the visualization, Grafana can display tooltips. Choose how tooltips behave.
Values sort order	This option controls the order in which values are listed in a tooltip.
Hide zeros	When you set the Tooltip mode to All, the Hide zeros option is displayed. This option controls whether or not series with `0` values are shown in the list in the tooltip.
Hover proximity	Set the hover proximity (in pixels) to control how close the cursor must be to a data point to trigger the tooltip to display.
Max width	Set the maximum width of the tooltip box.
Max height	Set the maximum height of the tooltip box. The default is 600 pixels.

Tooltip mode

When you hover your cursor over the visualization, Grafana can display tooltips. Choose how tooltips behave.

Single - The hover tooltip shows only a single series, the one that you are hovering over on the visualization.
All - The hover tooltip shows all series in the visualization. Grafana highlights the series that you are hovering over in bold in the series list in the tooltip.
Hidden - Do not display the tooltip when you interact with the visualization.

Use an override to hide individual series from the tooltip.

Values sort order

When you set the Tooltip mode to All, the Values sort order option is displayed. This option controls the order in which values are listed in a tooltip. Choose from the following:

None - Grafana automatically sorts the values displayed in a tooltip.
Ascending - Values in the tooltip are listed from smallest to largest.
Descending - Values in the tooltip are listed from largest to smallest.

Hover proximity

Set the hover proximity (in pixels) to control how close the cursor must be to a data point to trigger the tooltip to display. The following screen recording shows this option in a time series visualization:

Legend options

Legend options control the series names and statistics that appear under or to the right of the graph. For more information about the legend, refer to Configure a legend.

Option	Description
Visibility	Toggle the switch to turn the legend on or off.
Mode	Use these settings to define how the legend appears in your visualization. List displays the legend as a list. This is a default display mode of the legend. Table displays the legend as a table.
Placement	Choose where to display the legend. Bottom places the legend below the graph. Right places the legend to the right of the graph.
Width	Control how wide the legend is when placed on the right side of the visualization. This option is only displayed if you set the legend placement to Right.
Limit	Limit how many series items are shown by default. The rest become expandable using a Show all link.
Values	Choose which of the standard calculations to show in the legend. You can have more than one.

Axis options

Options under the Axis section control how the x- and y-axes are rendered. Some options don’t take effect until you click outside of the field option box you’re editing. You can also press Enter.

Option	Description
Time zone	Set the desired time zones to display along the x-axis. Choose from: Auto, Left, Right, and Hidden.
Placement	Select the placement of the y-axis.
Label	Set a y-axis text label. If you have more than one y-axis, then you can assign different labels using an override.
Width	Set a fixed width for the axis. By default, Grafana dynamically calculates the width of an axis.
Show grid lines	Set the axis grid line visibility. Choose from: Auto, On, and Off.
Color	Set the color of the axis. Choose from: Text - Uses panel text color. Series - Uses the colors of the series.
Show border	Set the axis border visibility.
Scale	Set the y-axis values scale. Choose from: Linear, Logarithmic, and Symlog.
Centered zero	Set the y-axis so it’s centered on zero.
Soft min	Set a soft min to better control the y-axis limits.
Soft max	Set a soft max to better control the y-axis limits.

Placement

Select the placement of the y-axis. Choose from the following:

Auto - Automatically assigns the y-axis to the series. When there are two or more series with different units, Grafana assigns the left axis to the first unit and the right axis to the units that follow.
Left - Display all y-axes on the left side.
Right - Display all y-axes on the right side.
Hidden - Hide all axes. To selectively hide axes, Add a field override that targets specific fields.

Scale

Set the y-axis values scale. Choose from:

Linear - Divides the scale into equal parts.
Logarithmic - Use a logarithmic scale. When you select this option, a list appears for you to choose a binary (base 2) or common (base 10) logarithmic scale.
Symlog - Use a symmetrical logarithmic scale. When you select this option, a list appears for you to choose a binary (base 2) or common (base 10) logarithmic scale. The linear threshold option allows you to set the threshold at which the scale changes from linear to logarithmic.

Soft min and soft max

Set a Soft min or soft max option for better control of y-axis limits. By default, Grafana sets the range for the y-axis automatically based on the dataset.

Soft min and soft max settings can prevent small variations in the data from being magnified when it’s mostly flat. In contrast, hard min and max values help prevent obscuring useful detail in the data by clipping intermittent spikes past a specific point.

To define hard limits of the y-axis, set standard min/max options. For more information, refer to Configure standard options.

Annotation options

Option	Description
Multi-row annotations	Breaks each annotation data frame into a separate row in the visualization. Only visible in panels that display more than one annotation.
Annotation clustering	Joins adjacent point annotations into a single annotation region. In public preview. Requires `annotationsClustering` feature flag.
Hide lines and areas	Controls display of annotation indicator lines, and shaded area for region annotations. In public preview. Requires `annotationsClustering` feature flag.

Graph styles options

The options under the Graph styles section let you control the general appearance of the graph, excluding color.

Option	Description
Style	Choose whether to display your time-series data as Lines, Bars, or Points.
Line interpolation	Choose how the graph interpolates the series line.
Line width	Set the thickness of the series lines or the outline for bars using the Line width slider.
Fill opacity	Set the series area fill color using the Fill opacity slider.
Gradient mode	Choose a gradient mode to control the gradient fill, which is based on the series color.
Line style	Choose a solid, dashed, or dotted line style.
Connect null values	Choose how null values, which are gaps in the data, appear on the graph.
Disconnect values	Choose whether to set a threshold above which values in the data should be disconnected.
Show points	Set whether to show data points to lines or bars.
Show values	Set whether to show data point values above the lines or bars.
Point size	Set the size of the points, from 1 to 40 pixels in diameter.
Stack series	Set whether Grafana displays series on top of each other.
Bar alignment	Set the position of the bar relative to a data point.
Bar width factor	Set the width of the bar relative to minimum space between data points. A factor of 0.5 means that the bars take up half of the available space between data points. A factor of 1.0 means that the bars take up all available space.

Style

Choose whether to display your time-series data as Lines, Bars, or Points. You can use overrides to combine multiple styles in the same graph. Choose from the following:

Line interpolation

Choose how the graph interpolates the series line:

Linear - Points are joined by straight lines.
Smooth - Points are joined by curved lines that smooths transitions between points.
Step before - The line is displayed as steps between points. Points are rendered at the end of the step.
Step after - The line is displayed as steps between points. Points are rendered at the beginning of the step.

Gradient mode

Choose a gradient mode to control the gradient fill, which is based on the series color. To change the color, use the standard color scheme field option. For more information, refer to Color scheme.

None - No gradient fill. This is the default setting.
Opacity - An opacity gradient where the opacity of the fill increases as y-axis values increase.
Hue - A subtle gradient that’s based on the hue of the series color.
Scheme - A color gradient defined by your Color scheme. This setting is used for the fill area and line. For more information about scheme, refer to Scheme gradient mode.

Gradient appearance is influenced by the Fill opacity setting. The following image shows the Fill opacity set to 50.

Scheme gradient mode

In Scheme gradient mode, the line or bar receives a gradient color defined from the selected Color scheme option in the visualization’s Standard options.

The following image shows a line chart with the Green-Yellow-Red (by value) color scheme option selected:

If the Color scheme is set to From thresholds (by value) and Gradient mode is set to Scheme, then the line or bar color changes as it crosses the defined thresholds:

Line style

Choose a solid, dashed, or dotted line style:

Solid - Display a solid line. This is the default setting.
Dash - Display a dashed line. When you choose this option, a list appears for you to select the length and gap (length, gap) for the line dashes. Dash spacing is 10, 10 by default.
Dots - Display dotted lines. When you choose this option, a list appears for you to select the gap (length = 0, gap) for the dot spacing. Dot spacing is 0, 10 by default.

Connect null values

Choose how null values, which are gaps in the data, appear on the graph. Null values can be connected to form a continuous line or set to a threshold above which gaps in the data are no longer connected.

Never - Time series data points with gaps in the data are never connected.
Always - Time series data points with gaps in the data are always connected.
Threshold - Specify a threshold above which gaps in the data are no longer connected. This can be useful when the connected gaps in the data are of a known size and/or within a known range, and gaps outside this range should no longer be connected.

Disconnect values

Choose whether to set a threshold above which values in the data should be disconnected.

Never - Time series data points in the data are never disconnected.
Threshold - Specify a threshold above which values in the data are disconnected. This can be useful when desired values in the data are of a known size and/or within a known range, and values outside this range should no longer be connected.

To change the color, use the standard color scheme field option.

Show points

Set whether to show data points as lines or bars. Choose from the following:

Auto - Grafana determines a point’s visibility based on the density of the data. If the density is low, then points appear.
Always - Show the points regardless of how dense the dataset is.
Never - Don’t show points.

Stack series

Set whether Grafana stacks or displays series on top of each other. Be cautious when using stacking because it can create misleading graphs. To read more about why stacking might not be the best approach, refer to The issue with stacking. Choose from the following:

Off - Turns off series stacking. When Off, all series share the same space in the visualization.
Normal - Stacks series on top of each other.
100% - Stack by percentage where all series add up to 100%.

Stack series in groups

The stacking group option is only available as an override. For more information about creating an override, refer to Configure field overrides.

Edit the panel and click Overrides.
Create a field override for the Stack series option.
In stacking mode, click Normal.
Name the stacking group in which you want the series to appear.

The stacking group name option is only available when you create an override.

Bar alignment

Set the position of the bar relative to a data point. In the examples below, Show points is set to Always which makes it easier to see the difference this setting makes. The points don’t change, but the bars change in relationship to the points. Choose from the following:

Before The bar is drawn before the point. The point is placed on the trailing corner of the bar.
Center The bar is drawn around the point. The point is placed in the center of the bar. This is the default.
After The bar is drawn after the point. The point is placed on the leading corner of the bar.

Standard options

Standard options in the panel editor pane let you change how field data is displayed in your visualizations. When you set a standard option, the change is applied to all fields or series. For more granular control over the display of fields, refer to Configure overrides.

Option	Description
Unit	Choose which unit a field should use.
Min/Max	Set the minimum and maximum values used in percentage threshold calculations or leave these field empty for them to be calculated automatically.
Field min/max	Enable Field min/max to have Grafana calculate the min or max of each field individually, based on the minimum or maximum value of the field.
Decimals	Specify the number of decimals Grafana includes in the rendered value.
Display name	Set the display title of all fields. You can use variables in the field title.
Color scheme	Set single or multiple colors for your entire visualization.
No value	Enter what Grafana should display if the field value is empty or null. The default value is a hyphen (-).

To learn more, refer to Configure standard options.

Data links and actions

Data links allow you to link to other panels, dashboards, and external resources and actions let you trigger basic, unauthenticated, API calls. In both cases, you can carry out these tasks while maintaining the context of the source panel.

For each data link, set the following options:

Title
URL
Open in new tab
One click - Opens the data link with a single click. Only one data link can have One click enabled at a time.

For each action, define the following API call settings:

Option	Description
Title	A human-readable label for the action that’s displayed in the UI.
Confirmation message	A descriptive prompt to confirm or cancel the action.
Method	Select from POST, PUT, or GET.
URL	The request URL. To add a variable, click in the URL field and enter `$` or press Ctrl+Space or Cmd+Space to see a list of available variables.
Variables	Key and Name pairs with a type selection. Click the + icon to add as many variables as you need. To add a variable to the request, prefix the key with `$`. You can set the values for the variables when performing an action.
Query parameters	Key and Value pairs. Click the + icon to add as many key/value pairs as you need.
Headers	Comprised of Key and Value pairs and a Content-Type. Click the + icon to add as many key/value pairs as you need.
Content-Type	Select from the following: application/json, text/plain, application/XML, and application/x-www-form-urlencoded.
Body	The body of the request.

To learn more, refer to Configure data links and actions.

Value mappings

Value mapping is a technique you can use to change how data appears in a visualization.

For each value mapping, set the following options:

Condition - Choose what’s mapped to the display text and (optionally) color:
- Value - Specific values
- Range - Numerical ranges
- Regex - Regular expressions
- Special - Special values like Null, NaN (not a number), or boolean values like true and false
Display text
Color (Optional)
Icon (Canvas only)

To learn more, refer to Configure value mappings.

Thresholds

A threshold is a value or limit you set for a metric that’s reflected visually when it’s met or exceeded. Thresholds are one way you can conditionally style and color your visualizations based on query results.

For each threshold, set the following options:

Option	Description
Value	Set the value for each threshold.
Thresholds mode	Choose from Absolute and Percentage.
Show thresholds	Choose from a variety of display options including not displaying thresholds at all.

To learn more, refer to Configure thresholds.

Field overrides

Overrides allow you to customize visualization settings for specific fields or series. When you add an override rule, it targets a particular set of fields and lets you define multiple options for how that field is displayed.

Choose from the following override options:

Option	Description
Fields with name	Select a field from the list of all available fields.
Field with name matching regex	Specify fields to override with a regular expression.
Fields with type	Select fields by type, such as string, numeric, or time.
Fields returned by query	Select all fields returned by a specific query, such as A, B, or C.
Fields with values	Select all fields returned by your defined reducer condition, such as Min, Max, Count, Total.

To learn more, refer to Configure field overrides.

Alert list

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Alert list

Alert lists allow you to display a list of important alerts that you want to track. You can configure the alert list to show the current state of your alert, such as firing, pending, or normal. Learn more about alerts in Grafana Alerting overview.

On each dashboard load, this visualization queries the alert list, always providing the most up-to-date results.

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Configure an alert list

Once you’ve created a dashboard, the following video shows you how to configure an alert list visualization:

Configuration options

The following section describes the configuration options available in the panel editor pane for this visualization. These options are, as much as possible, ordered as they appear in Grafana.

Panel options

In the Panel options section of the panel editor pane, set basic options like panel title and description, as well as panel links. To learn more, refer to Configure panel options.

Options

Use the following options to refine your alert list visualization.

Option	Description
View mode	Choose between List to display alerts in a detailed list format with comprehensive information, or Stat to show alerts as a summarized single-value statistic.
Group mode	Choose between Default grouping to show alert instances grouped by their alert rule, or Custom grouping to show alert instances grouped by a custom set of labels.
Max items	Sets the maximum number of alerts to list. By default, Grafana sets this value to 10.
Sort order	Select how to order the alerts displayed.
Alerts linked to this dashboard	Toggle the switch on to only show alerts from the dashboard the alert list is in.

Sort order

Select how to order the alerts displayed. Choose from:

Alphabetical (asc) - Alphabetical order.
Alphabetical (desc) - Reverse alphabetical order.
Importance - By importance according to the following values, with 1 being the highest:
- alerting: 1
- firing: 1
- no_data: 2
- pending: 3
- ok: 4
- paused: 5
- inactive: 5
Time (asc) - Newest active alert instances first.
Time (desc) - Oldest active alert instances first.

These options allow you to limit alerts shown to only those that match the query, folder, or tags you choose.

Option	Description
Alert name	Filter alerts by name.
Alert instance label	Filter alert instances using label querying. For example,`{severity="critical", instance=~"cluster-us-.+"}`.
Datasource	Filter alerts from the selected data source.
Folder	Filter alerts by the selected folder. Only alerts from dashboards in this folder are displayed.
Show alerts with 0 instances	Filter for alert rules with no instances. Alert rules with 0 (zero) instances are hidden by default. You can choose to show them by toggling this switch. Because these rules have no instances, they remain hidden if the Alert instance label filter is configured.

Choose which alert states to display in this visualization.

Option	Description
Alerting / Firing	Shows alerts that are currently active and triggering an alert condition.
Pending	Shows alerts that are in a transitional state, waiting for conditions to be met before triggering.
No Data	Shows alerts where the data source is not returning any data, which could indicate an issue with data collection.
Normal	Shows alerts that are in a normal or resolved state, where no alert condition is currently met.
Error	Shows alerts where an error has occurred, typically related to an issue in the alerting process.

Annotations list

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Annotations list

The annotations list shows a list of available annotations you can use to view annotated data. Various options are available to filter the list based on tags and on the current dashboard.

Configuration options

The following section describes the configuration options available in the panel editor pane for this visualization. These options are, as much as possible, ordered as they appear in Grafana.

Panel options

In the Panel options section of the panel editor pane, set basic options like panel title and description, as well as panel links. To learn more, refer to Configure panel options.

Annotation query options

The following options control the source query for the list of annotations:

Option	Description
Query filter	Specify which annotations are included in the list.
Time Range	Specify whether the list should be limited to the current time range.
Tags	Filter the annotations by tags. You can add multiple tags to refine the list. Optionally, leave the tag list empty and filter in view mode by selecting tags that are listed as part of the results on the panel itself.
Limit	Limit the number of results returned.

Query filter

Use the Query filter option to create a list of annotations from all dashboards in your organization or the current dashboard in which this panel is located. Choose from:

All dashboards - List annotations from all dashboards in the current organization.
This dashboard - Limit the list to the annotations on the current dashboard.

Time Range

Specify whether the list should be limited to the current time range. Choose from:

None - No time range limit for the annotations query.
This dashboard - Limit the list to the time range of the dashboard where the annotations list is available.

Display options

These options control additional metadata included in the annotations list display:

Option	Description
Show user	Show or hide which user created the annotation.
Show time	Show or hide the time the annotation creation time.
Show tags	Show or hide the tags associated with an annotation. Note that you can use the tags to filter the annotations list.

Link behavior options

Use the following options to control the behavior of annotation links in the list:

Option	Description
Link target	Set how to view the annotated data. Choose from: Panel - The link takes you directly to a full-screen view of the panel with the corresponding annotation. Dashboard - Focuses the annotation in the context of a complete dashboard.
Time before	Set the time range before the annotation. Use duration string values like `1h` for one hour and `10m` for 10 minutes.
Time after	Set the time range after the annotation.

Bar chart

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Bar chart

A bar chart is a visual representation that uses rectangular bars, where the length of each bar represents each value. You can use the bar chart visualization when you want to compare values over different categories or time periods. The visualization can display the bars horizontally or vertically, and can be customized to group or stack bars for more complex data analysis.

You can use the bar chart visualization if you need to show:

Population distribution by age or location
CPU usage per application
Sales per division
Server cost distribution

Configure a bar chart

The following video shows you how to create and configure a bar chart visualization:

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Supported data formats

To create a bar chart visualization, you need a dataset containing one string or time field (or column) and at least one numeric field, though preferably more than one to make best use of the visualization.

The text or time field is used to label the bars or values in each row of data and the numeric fields are represented by proportionally sized bars.

Example 1

Group	Value1	Value2	Value3
uno	5	3	2

If you have more than one text or time field, by default, the visualization uses the first one, but you can change this in the x-axis option as described in the Bar chart options section.

Example 2

If your dataset contains multiple rows, the visualization displays multiple bar chart groups where each group contains multiple bars representing all the numeric values for a row.

Group	Value1	Value2	Value3
uno	5	3	2
dos	10	6	4
tres	20	8	2

While the first field can be time-based and you can use a bar chart to plot time-series data, for large amounts of time-series data, we recommend that you use the time series visualization and configure it to be displayed as bars.

We recommend that you only use one dataset in a bar chart because using multiple datasets can result in unexpected behavior.

Apply filters from the bar chart

In bar charts, you can apply filters directly from the visualization.

To display the filter button, hover your cursor over the bar that has the value for which you want to filter and click the bar:

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

Configuration options

The following section describes the configuration options available in the panel editor pane for this visualization. These options are, as much as possible, ordered as they appear in Grafana.

Panel options

In the Panel options section of the panel editor pane, set basic options like panel title and description, as well as panel links. To learn more, refer to Configure panel options.

Bar chart options

Use these options to refine your visualization.

Option	Description
X Axis	Specify which field is used for the x-axis.
Orientation	Choose from: Auto - Grafana decides the bar orientation based on the panel dimensions. Horizontal - Will make the X axis the category axis. Vertical - Will make the Y axis the category axis.
Rotate x-axis tick labels	When the graph is vertically oriented, this setting rotates the labels under the bars. This setting is useful when bar chart labels are long and overlap.
X-axis tick label max length	Sets the maximum length of bar chart labels. Labels longer than the maximum length are truncated, and appended with `...`.
X-axis labels minimum spacing	Sets the minimum spacing between x-axis labels. Depending on your choice, you can select the RTL checkbox to require space from the right side. Choose from: None - All tick marks are shown. Small - 100 px of space is required between labels. Medium - 200 px of space is required between labels. Large - 300 px of space is required between labels.
Show values	This controls whether values are shown. Values are shown on top or to the left of bars. Choose from: Auto Values will be shown if there is space. Always Always show values. Never Never show values.
Stacking	Controls bar chart stacking. Choose from: Off: Bars will not be stacked. Normal: Bars will be stacked on each other. Percent: Bars will be stacked on each other, and the height of each bar is the percentage of the total height of the stack.
Group width	Controls the width of groups. 1 = Max with, 0 = Min width.
Bar width	Controls the width of bars. 1 = Max width, 0 = Min width.
Bar radius	Controls the radius of the bars. Choose from: 0 = Minimum radius 0.5 = Maximum radius
Highlight full area on cover	Controls if the entire surrounding area of the bar is highlighted when you hover over the bar.
Color by field	Use the color value for a sibling field to color each bar value.
Line width	Controls line width of the bars.
Fill opacity	Controls the fill opacity bars.
Gradient mode	Set the mode of the gradient fill. Fill gradient is based on the line color. To change the color, use the standard color scheme field option. Gradient appearance is influenced by the Fill opacity setting.

Gradient mode

Set the mode of the gradient fill. Fill gradient is based on the line color. To change the color, use the standard color scheme field option. Gradient appearance is influenced by the Fill opacity setting. Choose from:

None - No gradient fill. This is the default setting.
Opacity - Transparency of the gradient is calculated based on the values on the y-axis. Opacity of the fill is increasing with the values on the Y-axis.
Hue - Gradient color is generated based on the hue of the line color.
Scheme - The bar receives a gradient color defined by the Standard options > Color scheme selection.
- From thresholds - If the Color scheme selection is From thresholds (by value), then each bar is the color of the defined threshold.
  
  Color scheme: From thresholds
- Gradient color schemes - The following image shows a bar chart with the Green-Yellow-Red (by value) color scheme option selected.
  
  Color scheme: Green-Yellow-Red

Tooltip options

Tooltip options control the information overlay that appears when you hover over data points in the visualization.

Option	Description
Tooltip mode	When you hover your cursor over the visualization, Grafana can display tooltips. Choose how tooltips behave.
Values sort order	This option controls the order in which values are listed in a tooltip.
Hide zeros	When you set the Tooltip mode to All, the Hide zeros option is displayed. This option controls whether or not series with `0` values are shown in the list in the tooltip.
Max width	Set the maximum width of the tooltip box.
Max height	Set the maximum height of the tooltip box. The default is 600 pixels.

Tooltip mode

When you hover your cursor over the visualization, Grafana can display tooltips. Choose how tooltips behave.

Single - The hover tooltip shows only a single series, the one that you are hovering over on the visualization.
All - The hover tooltip shows all series in the visualization. Grafana highlights the series that you are hovering over in bold in the series list in the tooltip.
Hidden - Do not display the tooltip when you interact with the visualization.

Use an override to hide individual series from the tooltip.

Values sort order

When you set the Tooltip mode to All, the Values sort order option is displayed. This option controls the order in which values are listed in a tooltip. Choose from the following:

None - Grafana automatically sorts the values displayed in a tooltip.
Ascending - Values in the tooltip are listed from smallest to largest.
Descending - Values in the tooltip are listed from largest to smallest.

Legend options

Legend options control the series names and statistics that appear under or to the right of the graph. For more information about the legend, refer to Configure a legend.

Option	Description
Visibility	Toggle the switch to turn the legend on or off.
Mode	Use these settings to define how the legend appears in your visualization. List displays the legend as a list. This is a default display mode of the legend. Table displays the legend as a table.
Placement	Choose where to display the legend. Bottom places the legend below the graph. Right places the legend to the right of the graph.
Width	Control how wide the legend is when placed on the right side of the visualization. This option is only displayed if you set the legend placement to Right.
Limit	Limit how many series items are shown by default. The rest become expandable using a Show all link.
Values	Choose which of the standard calculations to show in the legend. You can have more than one.

Axis

Use the following field settings to refine how your axes display.

For guidance on configuring more than one y-axis, refer to Multiple y-axes.

Some field options will not affect the visualization until you click outside of the field option box you are editing or press Enter.

Option	Description
Placement	Select the placement of the Y-axis. Choose from: Auto - Grafana automatically assigns Y-axis to the series. When there are two or more series with different units, then Grafana assigns the left axis to the first unit and right to the following units. Left - Display all Y-axes on the left side. Right - Display all Y-axes on the right side. Hidden - Hide all axes. To selectively hide axes, add a field override that targets specific fields.
Label	Set a Y-axis text label. If you have more than one Y-axis, then you can assign different labels with an override.
Width	Set a fixed width of the axis. By default, Grafana dynamically calculates the width of an axis. By setting the width of the axis, data whose axes types are different can share the same display proportions. This makes it easier to compare more than one graph’s worth of data because the axes are not shifted or stretched within visual proximity of each other.
Show grid lines	Set whether grid lines are displayed in the chart. Choose from: Auto - Grafana automatically determines whether grid lines are displayed. On - Grid lines are always displayed. Off - Grid lines are never displayed
Color	Choose whether the axis color is the Text or Series color.
Show border	Toggle the switch to hide or display the border.
Scale	Set how the y-axis is split. Choose from: Linear Logarithmic - Choose between log base 2 or log base 10. Symlog - Uses a symmetrical logarithmic scale. Choose between log base 2 or log base 10, allowing for negative values.
Centered zero	Set the y-axis so it’s centered on zero.
Soft min and soft max	Set a Soft min or soft max option for better control of Y-axis limits. By default, Grafana sets the range for the Y-axis automatically based on the dataset.

Soft min and soft max

Set a Soft min or soft max option for better control of Y-axis limits. By default, Grafana sets the range for the Y-axis automatically based on the dataset.

Soft min and soft max settings can prevent blips from turning into mountains when the data is mostly flat, and hard min or max derived from standard min and max field options can prevent intermittent spikes from flattening useful detail by clipping the spikes past a defined point.

You can set standard min/max options to define hard limits of the Y-axis. For more information, refer to Standard options definitions.

Multiple y-axes

Standard options

Option	Description
Unit	Choose which unit a field should use.
Min/Max	Set the minimum and maximum values used in percentage threshold calculations or leave these field empty for them to be calculated automatically.
Field min/max	Enable Field min/max to have Grafana calculate the min or max of each field individually, based on the minimum or maximum value of the field.
Decimals	Specify the number of decimals Grafana includes in the rendered value.
Display name	Set the display title of all fields. You can use variables in the field title.
Color scheme	Set single or multiple colors for your entire visualization.
No value	Enter what Grafana should display if the field value is empty or null. The default value is a hyphen (-).

To learn more, refer to Configure standard options.

Data links and actions

For each data link, set the following options:

Title
URL
Open in new tab
One click - Opens the data link with a single click. Only one data link can have One click enabled at a time.

For each action, define the following API call settings:

Option	Description
Title	A human-readable label for the action that’s displayed in the UI.
Confirmation message	A descriptive prompt to confirm or cancel the action.
Method	Select from POST, PUT, or GET.
URL	The request URL. To add a variable, click in the URL field and enter `$` or press Ctrl+Space or Cmd+Space to see a list of available variables.
Variables	Key and Name pairs with a type selection. Click the + icon to add as many variables as you need. To add a variable to the request, prefix the key with `$`. You can set the values for the variables when performing an action.
Query parameters	Key and Value pairs. Click the + icon to add as many key/value pairs as you need.
Headers	Comprised of Key and Value pairs and a Content-Type. Click the + icon to add as many key/value pairs as you need.
Content-Type	Select from the following: application/json, text/plain, application/XML, and application/x-www-form-urlencoded.
Body	The body of the request.

To learn more, refer to Configure data links and actions.

Value mappings

Value mapping is a technique you can use to change how data appears in a visualization.

For each value mapping, set the following options:

Condition - Choose what’s mapped to the display text and (optionally) color:
- Value - Specific values
- Range - Numerical ranges
- Regex - Regular expressions
- Special - Special values like Null, NaN (not a number), or boolean values like true and false
Display text
Color (Optional)
Icon (Canvas only)

To learn more, refer to Configure value mappings.

Thresholds

For each threshold, set the following options:

Option	Description
Value	Set the value for each threshold.
Thresholds mode	Choose from Absolute and Percentage.
Show thresholds	Choose from a variety of display options including not displaying thresholds at all.

To learn more, refer to Configure thresholds.

Field overrides

Choose from the following override options:

Option	Description
Fields with name	Select a field from the list of all available fields.
Field with name matching regex	Specify fields to override with a regular expression.
Fields with type	Select fields by type, such as string, numeric, or time.
Fields returned by query	Select all fields returned by a specific query, such as A, B, or C.
Fields with values	Select all fields returned by your defined reducer condition, such as Min, Max, Count, Total.

To learn more, refer to Configure field overrides.

Bar gauge

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Bar gauge

Bar gauges simplify your data by reducing every field to a single value. You choose how Grafana calculates the reduction. This visualization can show one or more bar gauges depending on how many series, rows, or columns your query returns.

The bar gauge visualization displays values as bars with various lengths or fills proportional to the values they represent. They differ from traditional bar charts in that they act as gauges displaying metrics between ranges. One example is a thermometer displaying body temperature in a bar filling up.

You can use a bar gauge visualization when you need to show:

Key performance indicators (KPIs)
System health
Savings goals
Attendance
Process completion rates

Configure a bar gauge visualization

The following video shows you how to create and configure a bar gauge visualization:

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Supported data formats

To create a bar gauge visualization, you need a dataset querying at least one numeric field. Every numeric field in the dataset is displayed as a bar gauge. Text or time fields aren’t required but if they’re present, they’re used for labeling.

Example 1

Label	Value1	Value2	Value3
Row1	5	3	2

The minimum and maximum range for the bar gauges is automatically pulled from the largest and smallest numeric values in the dataset. You can also manually define the minimum and maximum values as indicated in the Standard options section.

You can also define the minimum and maximum from the dataset provided.

Example 2

Label	Value	Max	Min
Row1	3	6	1

If you don’t want to show gauges for the min and max values, you can configure only one field to be displayed as described in the Value options section.

Even if the min and max aren’t displayed, the visualization still pulls the range from the data set.

Example 3

The bar gauge visualization also supports multiple records (rows) in the dataset.

Label	Value1	Value2	Value3
Row1	5	3	2
Row2	10	6	4
Row3	20	8	2

By default, the visualization is configured to calculate a single value per column or series and to display only the last set of data. However, it derives the minimum and maximum from the full dataset even if those values aren’t visible. In this example, that means only the last row of data is displayed in the gauges and the minimum and maximum values are defined as 2 and 20, pulled from the whole dataset.

If you want to show one gauge per cell you can change the Show setting from Calculate to All values and each bar is labeled by concatenating the text column with each value’s column name.

For more information on these settings, refer to Value options.

Configuration options

The following section describes the configuration options available in the panel editor pane for this visualization. These options are, as much as possible, ordered as they appear in Grafana.

Panel options

In the Panel options section of the panel editor pane, set basic options like panel title and description, as well as panel links. To learn more, refer to Configure panel options.

Value options

Use the following options to refine how your visualization displays the value:

Option	Description
Show	Set how Grafana displays your data. Choose from: Calculate - Show a calculated value based on all rows. All values - Show a separate value for every row. If you select this option, then you can also limit the number of rows to display.
Calculation	If you chose Calculate as your Show option, select a reducer function that Grafana will use to reduce many fields to a single value. For a list of available calculations, refer to Calculation types.
Limit	If you chose All values as your Show option, enter the maximum number of rows to display. The default is 5,000.
Fields	Select the fields display in the panel.

Bar gauge options

Adjust how the gauge is displayed.

Option	Description
Orientation	Choose a stacking direction: Auto - Grafana determines the best orientation. Horizontal - Bars stretch horizontally, left to right. Vertical - Bars stretch vertically, bottom to top.
Display mode	Choose a display mode: Gradient - Threshold levels define a gradient. Retro LCD - The bar is split into sections that are lit or unlit. Basic - Single color based on the matching threshold.
Value display	Choose a value display mode: Value color - Value color is determined by value. Text color - Value color is default text color. Hidden - Values are hidden.
Name placement	Set the name placement mode when the bar gauge orientation is Auto or Horizontal. Choose from: Auto - Grafana determines the best placement. Top - Names are placed on top of each bar gauge. Left - Names are placed to the left of each bar gauge. Hidden - Names are hidden. When the bar gauge is in the vertical orientation, choose from Auto (names are always placed at the bottom of each bar) or Hidden.
Show unfilled area	Select if you want to render the unfilled region of the bars as dark gray. Not applicable to Retro LCD display mode.
Bar size	Choose a bar size mode: Auto - Grafana determines the best bar size. Manual - Manually configure the bar size.
Min width	Limit the minimum width of the bar column when the gauge is oriented vertically or is in Auto mode. Automatically shows the x-axis scroll bar when there’s a large amount of data. This option only applies when the Bar size mode is set to Manual.
Min height	Limit the minimum height of the bar row when the bar gauge is oriented horizontally or is in Auto mode. Automatically shows the y-axis scroll bar when there’s a large amount of data. This option only applies when the Bar size mode is set to Manual.
Max height	Limit the maximum height of the bar row when the bar gauge is oriented horizontally or is in Auto mode. Automatically shows the y-axis scroll bar when there’s a large amount of data. This option only applies when the Bar size mode is set to Manual.

Legend options

Legend options control the series names and statistics that appear under or to the right of the graph. For more information about the legend, refer to Configure a legend.

Option	Description
Visibility	Toggle the switch to turn the legend on or off.
Mode	Use these settings to define how the legend appears in your visualization. List displays the legend as a list. This is a default display mode of the legend. Table displays the legend as a table.
Placement	Choose where to display the legend. Bottom places the legend below the graph. Right places the legend to the right of the graph.
Width	Control how wide the legend is when placed on the right side of the visualization. This option is only displayed if you set the legend placement to Right.
Limit	Limit how many series items are shown by default. The rest become expandable using a Show all link.
Values	Choose which of the standard calculations to show in the legend. You can have more than one.

Text size options

Set the sizes of the following text elements in pixels:

Title - Bar name
Value - Bar value

Standard options

Option	Description
Unit	Choose which unit a field should use.
Min/Max	Set the minimum and maximum values used in percentage threshold calculations or leave these field empty for them to be calculated automatically.
Field min/max	Enable Field min/max to have Grafana calculate the min or max of each field individually, based on the minimum or maximum value of the field.
Decimals	Specify the number of decimals Grafana includes in the rendered value.
Display name	Set the display title of all fields. You can use variables in the field title.
Color scheme	Set single or multiple colors for your entire visualization.
No value	Enter what Grafana should display if the field value is empty or null. The default value is a hyphen (-).

To learn more, refer to Configure standard options.

Data links and actions

Data links allow you to link to other panels, dashboards, and external resources while maintaining the context of the source panel. You can create links that include the series name or even the value under the cursor. To learn more, refer to Configure data links and actions.

Note
Actions are not supported for this visualization.

For each data link, set the following options:

Title
URL
Open in new tab

Data links for this visualization don’t include the One click switch, however, if there’s only one data link configured, that data link has single-click functionality. If multiple data links are configured, then clicking the visualization opens a menu that displays all the data links.

Value mappings

Value mapping is a technique you can use to change how data appears in a visualization.

For each value mapping, set the following options:

Condition - Choose what’s mapped to the display text and (optionally) color:
- Value - Specific values
- Range - Numerical ranges
- Regex - Regular expressions
- Special - Special values like Null, NaN (not a number), or boolean values like true and false
Display text
Color (Optional)
Icon (Canvas only)

To learn more, refer to Configure value mappings.

Thresholds

For each threshold, set the following options:

Option	Description
Value	Set the value for each threshold.
Thresholds mode	Choose from Absolute and Percentage.

To learn more, refer to Configure thresholds.

Field overrides

Choose from the following override options:

Option	Description
Fields with name	Select a field from the list of all available fields.
Field with name matching regex	Specify fields to override with a regular expression.
Fields with type	Select fields by type, such as string, numeric, or time.
Fields returned by query	Select all fields returned by a specific query, such as A, B, or C.
Fields with values	Select all fields returned by your defined reducer condition, such as Min, Max, Count, Total.

To learn more, refer to Configure field overrides.

Candlestick

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Candlestick

The candlestick visualization allows you to visualize data that includes a number of consistent dimensions focused on price movements, such as stock prices. The candlestick visualization includes an Open-High-Low-Close (OHLC) mode, as well as support for additional dimensions based on time series data.

Candlestick visualizations build upon the foundation of the time series visualization and include many common configuration settings.

You can use a candlestick if you want to visualize, at a glance, how a price moved over time, whether it went up, down, or stayed the same, and how much it fluctuated:

Each candlestick is represented as a rectangle, referred to as the candlestick body. The candlestick body displays the opening and closing prices during a time period. Green candlesticks represent when the price appreciated while the red candlesticks represent when the price depreciated. The lines sticking out the candlestick body are referred to as wicks or shadows, which represent the highest and lowest prices during the time period.

Use a candlestick when you need to:

Monitor and identify trends in price movements of specific assets such as stocks, currencies, or commodities.
Analyze any volatility in the stock market.
Provide data analysis to help with trading decisions.

Configure a candlestick

Once you’ve created a dashboard, the following video shows you how to configure a candlestick visualization:

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Supported data formats

The candlestick visualization works best with price movement data for an asset. The data must include:

Timestamps - The time at which each price movement occurred.
Opening price - The price of the asset at the beginning of the time period.
Closing price - The price of the asset at the end of the time period.
Highest price - The highest price the asset reached during the time period.
Lowest price - The lowest price the asset reached during the time period.

Example

Timestamps	Open	High	Low	Close
2024-03-13 10:05:00	0.200	0.205	0.201	0.203
2024-03-14 10:10:10	0.204	0.205	0.201	0.200
2024-03-15 10:15:10	0.204	0.205	0.201	0.200
2024-03-16 10:20:11	0.203	0.203	0.202	0.203
2024-03-17 10:25:11	0.203	0.203	0.202	0.203
2024-03-18 10:30:12	0.202	0.202	0.201	0.201

The data is converted as follows:

Pan and zoom panel time range

You can pan the panel time range left and right, and zoom it and in and out. This, in turn, changes the dashboard time range.

Zoom in - Click and drag on the panel to zoom in on a particular time range.

Zoom out - Double-click anywhere on the panel to zoom out the time range.

Next range: 8:30 - 10:29
Next range: 7:30 - 11:29

Pan - Click and drag the x-axis area of the panel to pan the time range.

The time range shifts by the distance you drag. For example, if the original time range is from 9:00 to 9:59 and you drag 30 minutes to the right, the time range changes to 9:30 to 10:29.

For screen recordings showing these interactions, refer to the Panel overview documentation.

Configuration options

The following section describes the configuration options available in the panel editor pane for this visualization. These options are, as much as possible, ordered as they appear in Grafana.

Panel options

In the Panel options section of the panel editor pane, set basic options like panel title and description, as well as panel links. To learn more, refer to Configure panel options.

Candlestick options

The following options let you control which data is displayed in the visualization and how it appears:

Option	Description
Mode	Controls which dimensions are used for the visualization. Choose from: Candles - Uses the open, high, low, and close dimensions. Volume - Uses only the volume dimension. Both - The default behavior, which displays both candles and volume values.
Candle style	Controls the appearance of the candles. Choose from: Candles - The default display style, which creates candle-style markers between the open and close dimensions. OHLC Bars - Displays values for the four core dimensions, open, high, low, and close.
Color strategy	Controls how colors are applied to dimensions. Choose from: Since Open - This mode uses the Up color if the intra-period price movement is positive. Since Prior Close - The color of the candle is based on the inter-period price movement or change in value.
Up color/Down color	These options control which colors are used when the price movement is up or down. Note that the Color strategy selection determines if intra-period or inter-period price movement is used to select the candle or OHLC bar color.
Open, High, Low, Close, Volume	The candlestick visualization attempts to map fields from your data to these dimensions, as appropriate dimension.
Additional fields	The Include and Ignore options allow the candlestick visualization to display other included data such as simple moving averages, Bollinger bands and more, using the same styles and configurations available in the time series visualization.

Color strategy

The Color strategy option controls how colors are applied to dimensions. Choose from:

Since Open - The default behavior. This mode uses the Up color if the intra-period price movement is positive. In other words, if the value on close is greater or equal to the value on open, the Up color is used.
Since Prior Close - An alternative display method where the color of the candle is based on the inter-period price movement or change in value. In other words, if the value on open is greater than the previous value on close, the Up color is used. If the value on open is lower than the previous value on close, the Down color is used.

This option also triggers the hollow candlestick visualization mode. Hollow candlesticks indicate that the intra-period movement is positive (value is higher on close than on open), while filled candlesticks indicate the intra-period change is negative (value is lower on close than on open). To learn more, refer to the explanation of the differences.

Open, High, Low, Close, Volume

The candlestick visualization attempts to map fields from your data to the appropriate dimension:

Open - Starting value of the given period.
High - Highest value of the given period.
Low - Lowest value of the given period.
Close - Final (end) value of the given period.
Volume - Sample count in the given period (for example, number of trades).

Note
The candlestick visualization legend doesn’t display these values.

If your data can’t be mapped to these dimensions for some reason (for example, because the column names aren’t the same), you can map them manually using the Open, High, Low, and Close fields under the Candlestick options in the panel editor:

Additional fields

The candlestick visualization is based on the time series visualization, and it can visualize additional data dimensions beyond open, high, low, close, and volume. The Include and Ignore options allow it to visualize other included data such as simple moving averages, Bollinger bands and more, using the same styles and configurations available in the time series visualization.

Tooltip options

Tooltip options control the information overlay that appears when you hover over data points in the visualization.

Option	Description
Tooltip mode	When you hover your cursor over the visualization, Grafana can display tooltips. Choose how tooltips behave.
Values sort order	This option controls the order in which values are listed in a tooltip.
Hover proximity	Set the hover proximity (in pixels) to control how close the cursor must be to a data point to trigger the tooltip to display.
Max width	Set the maximum width of the tooltip box.
Max height	Set the maximum height of the tooltip box. The default is 600 pixels.

Tooltip mode

When you hover your cursor over the visualization, Grafana can display tooltips. Choose how tooltips behave.

Single - The hover tooltip shows only a single series, the one that you are hovering over on the visualization.
All - The hover tooltip shows all series in the visualization. Grafana highlights the series that you are hovering over in bold in the series list in the tooltip.
Hidden - Do not display the tooltip when you interact with the visualization.

Use an override to hide individual series from the tooltip.

Values sort order

When you set the Tooltip mode to All, the Values sort order option is displayed. This option controls the order in which values are listed in a tooltip. Choose from the following:

None - Grafana automatically sorts the values displayed in a tooltip.
Ascending - Values in the tooltip are listed from smallest to largest.
Descending - Values in the tooltip are listed from largest to smallest.

Hover proximity

Legend options

Legend options control the series names and statistics that appear under or to the right of the graph. For more information about the legend, refer to Configure a legend.

Option	Description
Visibility	Toggle the switch to turn the legend on or off.
Mode	Use these settings to define how the legend appears in your visualization. List displays the legend as a list. This is a default display mode of the legend. Table displays the legend as a table.
Placement	Choose where to display the legend. Bottom places the legend below the graph. Right places the legend to the right of the graph.
Width	Control how wide the legend is when placed on the right side of the visualization. This option is only displayed if you set the legend placement to Right.
Limit	Limit how many series items are shown by default. The rest become expandable using a Show all link.
Values	Choose which of the standard calculations to show in the legend. You can have more than one.

Annotation options

Option	Description
Multi-row annotations	Breaks each annotation data frame into a separate row in the visualization. Only visible in panels that display more than one annotation.
Annotation clustering	Joins adjacent point annotations into a single annotation region. In public preview. Requires `annotationsClustering` feature flag.
Hide lines and areas	Controls display of annotation indicator lines, and shaded area for region annotations. In public preview. Requires `annotationsClustering` feature flag.

Graph styles options

The options under the Graph styles section let you control the general appearance of additional fields in the visualization, excluding color.

Option	Description
Style	Choose whether to display your time-series data as Lines, Bars, or Points.
Line interpolation	Choose how the graph interpolates the series line.
Line width	Set the thickness of the series lines or the outline for bars using the Line width slider.
Fill opacity	Set the series area fill color using the Fill opacity slider.
Gradient mode	Choose a gradient mode to control the gradient fill, which is based on the series color.
Line style	Choose a solid, dashed, or dotted line style.
Connect null values	Choose how null values, which are gaps in the data, appear on the graph.
Disconnect values	Choose whether to set a threshold above which values in the data should be disconnected.
Show points	Set whether to show data points to lines or bars.
Point size	Set the size of the points, from 1 to 40 pixels in diameter.
Stack series	Set whether Grafana displays series on top of each other.
Bar alignment	Set the position of the bar relative to a data point.
Bar width factor	Set the width of the bar relative to minimum space between data points. A factor of 0.5 means that the bars take up half of the available space between data points. A factor of 1.0 means that the bars take up all available space.

Style

Choose whether to display your time-series data as Lines, Bars, or Points. You can use overrides to combine multiple styles in the same graph. Choose from the following:

Line interpolation

Choose how the graph interpolates the series line:

Linear - Points are joined by straight lines.
Smooth - Points are joined by curved lines that smooths transitions between points.
Step before - The line is displayed as steps between points. Points are rendered at the end of the step.
Step after - The line is displayed as steps between points. Points are rendered at the beginning of the step.

Gradient mode

Choose a gradient mode to control the gradient fill, which is based on the series color. To change the color, use the standard color scheme field option. For more information, refer to Color scheme.

None - No gradient fill. This is the default setting.
Opacity - An opacity gradient where the opacity of the fill increases as y-axis values increase.
Hue - A subtle gradient that’s based on the hue of the series color.
Scheme - A color gradient defined by your Color scheme. This setting is used for the fill area and line. For more information about scheme, refer to Scheme gradient mode.

Gradient appearance is influenced by the Fill opacity setting. The following image shows the Fill opacity set to 50.

Scheme gradient mode

In Scheme gradient mode, the line or bar receives a gradient color defined from the selected Color scheme option in the visualization’s Standard options.

The following image shows a line chart with the Green-Yellow-Red (by value) color scheme option selected:

If the Color scheme is set to From thresholds (by value) and Gradient mode is set to Scheme, then the line or bar color changes as it crosses the defined thresholds:

Line style

Choose a solid, dashed, or dotted line style:

Solid - Display a solid line. This is the default setting.
Dash - Display a dashed line. When you choose this option, a list appears for you to select the length and gap (length, gap) for the line dashes. Dash spacing is 10, 10 by default.
Dots - Display dotted lines. When you choose this option, a list appears for you to select the gap (length = 0, gap) for the dot spacing. Dot spacing is 0, 10 by default.

Connect null values

Never - Time series data points with gaps in the data are never connected.
Always - Time series data points with gaps in the data are always connected.
Threshold - Specify a threshold above which gaps in the data are no longer connected. This can be useful when the connected gaps in the data are of a known size and/or within a known range, and gaps outside this range should no longer be connected.

Disconnect values

Choose whether to set a threshold above which values in the data should be disconnected.

Never - Time series data points in the data are never disconnected.
Threshold - Specify a threshold above which values in the data are disconnected. This can be useful when desired values in the data are of a known size and/or within a known range, and values outside this range should no longer be connected.

To change the color, use the standard color scheme field option.

Show points

Set whether to show data points as lines or bars. Choose from the following:

Auto - Grafana determines a point’s visibility based on the density of the data. If the density is low, then points appear.
Always - Show the points regardless of how dense the dataset is.
Never - Don’t show points.

Stack series

Off - Turns off series stacking. When Off, all series share the same space in the visualization.
Normal - Stacks series on top of each other.
100% - Stack by percentage where all series add up to 100%.

Stack series in groups

The stacking group option is only available as an override. For more information about creating an override, refer to Configure field overrides.

Edit the panel and click Overrides.
Create a field override for the Stack series option.
In stacking mode, click Normal.
Name the stacking group in which you want the series to appear.

The stacking group name option is only available when you create an override.

Bar alignment

Before The bar is drawn before the point. The point is placed on the trailing corner of the bar.
Center The bar is drawn around the point. The point is placed in the center of the bar. This is the default.
After The bar is drawn after the point. The point is placed on the leading corner of the bar.

Axis options

Option	Description
Placement	Select the placement of the y-axis. Choose from: Auto, Left, Right, and Hidden.
Label	Set a y-axis text label. If you have more than one y-axis, then you can assign different labels using an override.
Width	Set a fixed width for the axis. By default, Grafana dynamically calculates the width of an axis.
Show grid lines	Set the axis grid line visibility. Choose from: Auto, On, and Off.
Color	Set the color of the axis. Choose from: Text - Uses panel text color. Series - Uses the colors of the series.
Show border	Set the axis border visibility.
Scale	Set the y-axis values scale. Choose from: Linear, Logarithmic, and Symlog.
Centered zero	Set the y-axis so it’s centered on zero. Applies to the Linear or Symlog scale options.
Soft min	Set a soft min to better control the y-axis limits.
Soft max	Set a soft max to better control the y-axis limits.

Placement

Select the placement of the y-axis. Choose from the following:

Auto - Automatically assigns the y-axis to the series. When there are two or more series with different units, Grafana assigns the left axis to the first unit and the right axis to the units that follow.
Left - Display all y-axes on the left side.
Right - Display all y-axes on the right side.
Hidden - Hide all axes. To selectively hide axes, Add a field override that targets specific fields.

Scale

Set the y-axis values scale. Choose from:

Linear - Divides the scale into equal parts.
Logarithmic - Use a logarithmic scale. If you select this option, in the Log base list, choose a binary (base 2) or common (base 10) logarithmic scale.
Symlog - Use a symmetrical logarithmic scale. If you select this option, choose also:
- Log base - Select a binary (base 2) or common (base 10) logarithmic scale.
- Linear threshold - Set the threshold at which the scale changes from linear to logarithmic.

Soft min and soft max

Set a Soft min or soft max option for better control of y-axis limits. By default, Grafana sets the range for the y-axis automatically based on the dataset.

To define hard limits of the y-axis, set standard min/max options. For more information, refer to Configure standard options. The following examples shows how this option works in a time series visualization:

Standard options

Option	Description
Unit	Choose which unit a field should use.
Min/Max	Set the minimum and maximum values used in percentage threshold calculations or leave these field empty for them to be calculated automatically.
Field min/max	Enable Field min/max to have Grafana calculate the min or max of each field individually, based on the minimum or maximum value of the field.
Decimals	Specify the number of decimals Grafana includes in the rendered value.
Display name	Set the display title of all fields. You can use variables in the field title.
Color scheme	Set single or multiple colors for your entire visualization.
No value	Enter what Grafana should display if the field value is empty or null. The default value is a hyphen (-).

To learn more, refer to Configure standard options.

Data links and actions

For each data link, set the following options:

Title
URL
Open in new tab
One click - Opens the data link with a single click. Only one data link can have One click enabled at a time.

For each action, define the following API call settings:

Option	Description
Title	A human-readable label for the action that’s displayed in the UI.
Confirmation message	A descriptive prompt to confirm or cancel the action.
Method	Select from POST, PUT, or GET.
URL	The request URL. To add a variable, click in the URL field and enter `$` or press Ctrl+Space or Cmd+Space to see a list of available variables.
Variables	Key and Name pairs with a type selection. Click the + icon to add as many variables as you need. To add a variable to the request, prefix the key with `$`. You can set the values for the variables when performing an action.
Query parameters	Key and Value pairs. Click the + icon to add as many key/value pairs as you need.
Headers	Comprised of Key and Value pairs and a Content-Type. Click the + icon to add as many key/value pairs as you need.
Content-Type	Select from the following: application/json, text/plain, application/XML, and application/x-www-form-urlencoded.
Body	The body of the request.

To learn more, refer to Configure data links and actions.

Value mappings

Value mapping is a technique you can use to change how data appears in a visualization.

For each value mapping, set the following options:

Condition - Choose what’s mapped to the display text and (optionally) color:
- Value - Specific values
- Range - Numerical ranges
- Regex - Regular expressions
- Special - Special values like Null, NaN (not a number), or boolean values like true and false
Display text
Color (Optional)
Icon (Canvas only)

To learn more, refer to Configure value mappings.

Thresholds

For each threshold, set the following options:

Option	Description
Value	Set the value for each threshold.
Thresholds mode	Choose from Absolute and Percentage.
Show thresholds	Choose from a variety of display options including not displaying thresholds at all.

To learn more, refer to Configure thresholds.

Field overrides

Choose from the following override options:

Option	Description
Fields with name	Select a field from the list of all available fields.
Field with name matching regex	Specify fields to override with a regular expression.
Fields with type	Select fields by type, such as string, numeric, or time.
Fields returned by query	Select all fields returned by a specific query, such as A, B, or C.
Fields with values	Select all fields returned by your defined reducer condition, such as Min, Max, Count, Total.

To learn more, refer to Configure field overrides.

Canvas

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Canvas

Canvases combine the power of Grafana with the flexibility of custom elements. They are extensible visualizations that allow you to add and arrange elements wherever you want within unstructured static and dynamic layouts. This lets you design custom visualizations and overlay data in ways that aren’t possible with standard Grafana visualizations, all within the Grafana UI.

If you’ve used popular UI and web design tools, then designing canvases will feel very familiar. With all of these dynamic elements, there’s almost no limit to what a canvas can display.

Note
We’d love your feedback on the canvas visualization. Please check out the open Github issues and submit a new feature request as needed.

Configure a canvas visualization

The following video shows you how to create and configure a canvas visualization:

Supported data formats

The canvas visualization is unique in that it doesn’t have any specific data requirements. You can even start adding and configuring visual elements without providing any data. However, any data you plan to consume should be accessible through supported Grafana data sources and structured in a way that ensures smooth integration with your custom elements.

If your canvas is going to update in real time, your data should support refreshes at your desired intervals without degrading the user experience.

You can tie Elements and Connections to data through options like text, colors, and background pattern images, etc. available in the canvas visualization.

Elements

Elements are the basic building blocks of a canvas and they help you visualize data with different shapes and options. You can rotate and move elements around the canvas. When you move elements, snapping and alignment guides help you create more precise layouts.

Add elements in the Layer section of canvas options.

Note
Element snapping and alignment only works when the canvas is not zoomed in.

Element types

When you select an element that you’ve added to a canvas, you can access configuration options for it that are dependent on the element type.

The following sections describe the different elements available.

Basic shapes

A basic shape element can display text (both fixed and field data) and its background color can be changed based on data thresholds. You can add the following basic shapes to a canvas:

Cloud
Ellipse
Parallelogram
Rectangle
Triangle

Metric value

The metric value element lets you select the data you want to display on a canvas. This element has a unique “edit” mode that can be triggered either through the context menu “Edit” option or by double clicking. When in edit mode you can select which field data that you want to display.

Text

The text element lets you add text to the canvas. The element also supports an editing mode, triggered via either double clicking or the edit menu option in the context menu.

Icon

The icon element lets you add a supported icon to the canvas. Icons can have their color set based on thresholds or value mappings.

Add a custom icon

You can add a custom icon by referencing an SVG file. To add a custom icon, follow these steps:

Under Icon > SVG Path, if it’s not already selected, select Fixed as your file source.
Click Select a value in the field below.
In the dialog box that opens, click the URL tab.
Enter the URL in the field below the URL tab.
Click Select.
(Optional) Add a background image to your icon with the Background (icon) option by following the steps to add a custom image.

If you don’t have an SVG file, you can use a rectangle element instead of an icon and set its background image to an image file type. To add a custom image for another element type, follow the steps to add a custom image.

Server

The server element lets you easily represent a single server, a stack of servers, a database, or a terminal. Server elements support status color, bulb color, and a bulb blink rate all configurable by fixed or field values.

Button

The button element lets you add a basic button to the canvas. Button elements support triggering basic, unauthenticated API calls. API settings are found in the button element editor. You can also pass template variables in the API editor.

Note
A button click will only trigger an API call when inline editing is disabled.

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With Grafana Play, you can explore and see how it works, learning from practical examples to accelerate your development. This feature can be seen on Canvas Visualization: Buttons.

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Button API options

The following options let you configure basic, unauthenticated API calls:

Option	Description
Endpoint	Enter the endpoint URL.
Method	Choose from GET, POST, and PUT.
Content-Type	Select an option in the drop-down list. Choose from: JSON, Text, JavaScript, HTML, XML, and x-www-form-urlencoded.
Query parameters	Enter as many Key, Value pairs as you need.
Header parameters	Enter as many Key, Value pairs as you need.
Success message	Enter a message that will appear if the API call is successful. If you leave the field empty, the default message “API call was successful” appears.
Payload	Enter the body of the API call.

Add custom images to elements

You can add custom background images to all elements except Button by referencing an image URL. The image must be hosted at a URL that allows requests from your Grafana instance.

To upload a custom image, follow these steps:

Under Background (<ELEMENT TYPE>), if it’s not already selected, select Fixed as your image source.
Click Select a value in the field below.
In the dialog box that opens, click the URL tab.
Enter the URL in the field below the URL tab.
Click Select.

Connections

When building a canvas, you can connect elements together to create more complex visualizations. You can also create connections to the background of the canvas.

To create a connection, follow these steps:

In the panel edit pane, expand the Canvas options section.
Toggle on the Inline editing switch.
Hover the cursor over an element you want to connect to display the connection anchors:
Drag the cursor from a connection anchor on that element to one on another element.

To remove a connection, click the connection and then press the Delete or Backspace key.

Connection adjustments

You can adjust connections, adding angles to them, to fit the canvas you’re working in. When you move connected elements, the connection resizes to fit the space.

To adjust a connection, click it to display the midpoint controls and move those as needed.
To make a connection a straight line again, move the midpoint back until the midpoint controls disappear.

If you move a connection so that it’s almost a right angle or a straight line, the connection snaps into that angle or into a straight line.

Connection styles

You can set the size, color, direction, and style of connections based on fixed or field values. To do so, enter into panel edit mode, select the connection, and modify the connection’s properties in the panel editor. For more information on connection styles, refer to Selected connection options.

Canvas editing

You can make changes to a canvas visualization while in the context of the dashboard, or in dashboard mode. The following sections describe the editing options available in dashboard mode.

Inline editor

You can edit your canvas inline while in dashboard mode. The inline editor menu displays the options relevant to the part of the canvas that you’ve selected. You can also move the editor window around.

The context menu lets you perform common tasks quickly and efficiently. Supported functionality includes opening and closing the inline editor, duplicating an element, deleting an element, and more.

The context menu is triggered by a right click action over the panel or over a given canvas element. When right clicking the panel, you are able to set a background image and easily add elements to the canvas.

When right clicking an element, you are able to edit, delete, duplicate, and modify the element’s layer positioning.

Configuration options

The following section describes the configuration options available in the panel editor pane for this visualization. These options are, as much as possible, ordered as they appear in Grafana.

Panel options

In the Panel options section of the panel editor pane, set basic options like panel title and description, as well as panel links. To learn more, refer to Configure panel options.

Canvas options

Inline editing

The inline editing toggle lets you lock or unlock the canvas. When turned off the canvas becomes “locked”, freezing elements in place and preventing unintended modifications.

Experimental Element types

Toggle the switch to include experimental element types in the available selections.

Pan and zoom

You can enable panning and zooming in a canvas. This allows you to both create and navigate more complex designs.

Note
Canvas pan and zoom is currently in public preview. Grafana Labs offers limited support, and breaking changes might occur prior to the feature being made generally available.

To use this feature, enable the canvasPanelPanZoom feature toggle in your Grafana configuration file or contact Support.

Use the following pointer and keyboard strokes:

Zoom in - Scroll up
Zoom out - Scroll down
Pan - Middle mouse/wheel + drag OR Control + right-click + drag
Reset - Double-click

Zoom to content

When you toggle on the Zoom to content switch, Grafana automatically adjusts the view to fit all visible elements in your canvas visualization into the viewport, adding a small margin around the edges. This makes it easy to reset your view, present content, or switch between devices without losing your framing. The content will re‑fit even if you resize the panel.

Infinite panning

You can enable infinite panning in a canvas when pan and zoom is enabled. This allows you to pan and zoom the canvas and uncover larger designs.

Note
Infinite panning is an experimental feature that may not work as expected in all scenarios. For example, elements that are not top-left constrained may experience unexpected movement when panning.

Tooltip options

The Tooltip mode setting controls the display of tooltips when hovering over canvas elements that are connected to data, data links, or actions. The options are:

Enabled - Show a tooltip when the cursor hovers over an element.
Disabled - Tooltips are not shown on hover.

The Disable for one-click elements setting allows hiding tooltips on elements that have one-click functionality enabled. This prevents tooltips from interfering with one-click interactions while still allowing tooltips on other elements.

Layer options

The Layer options let you add elements to the canvas and control its appearance:

Elements (layer)

Use the Add item button to open the element type drop-down list. Elements are listed in the reverse order that you add them to the canvas:

By default, elements have numbered names, like “Element 1”, and those numbers correspond to the order in which the elements were added, but you can change the default names.

You can also take the following actions on elements:

Change the order of elements by clicking and holding the row of the element while moving it up and down in the element list.
Duplicate or remove elements by clicking the icons on the element row.
Access the element editing options by clicking the element row. This displays the Selected element section of options. Click Clear selection to remove the element from focus and stop displaying that section of options.

Rename an element

To update the name of an element, follow these steps:

Hover the cursor over the element name so the Edit layer name (pencil) icon is displayed.
Click the Edit layer name icon.
Enter a new name.
Click outside of the name field.

Background (canvas)

Use the following options to control the background of the canvas:

Option	Description
Color	Set the background color.
Image	Use one of the provided background images or add your own custom image.
Image size	Control the size of the image or set it as a tile.

Border (canvas)

Use the following options to control the border of the canvas:

Option	Description
Width	Set the border width in pixels.
Color	Set the border color. This option is only displayed when the border width is greater than zero.
Radius	Add rounded corners to the border and control the degree of curve.

Selected element options

The following options allow you to control the appearance of the element you’ve selected. To access an element so that you can edit it, expand the Layer section and select the desired element.

Option	Description
Element type	Change the selected element type.
Element	Control the appearance of text on the element. This section is named based on the element type.
Layout	Control the placement of elements on the canvas.
Background (element)	Set the background of the element.
Border (element)	Set the border of the element.
Data links and actions	Configure data links and actions for elements.

Element type

You can change element type by making a new selection in the drop-down list:

Element

This section is named based on the element type. Control the appearance of text on the element with the following options:

Option	Description
Style	Buttons only. Select an option in the Variant drop-down list to indicate what kind of action the button initiates. Choose from primary, secondary, success, and destructive.
Text	Select a Source. Choose from Fixed or Field. If you selected Fixed, enter text in the Value field. If you selected Field, choose the field.
Text color	Choose a text color.
Align text	Set the horizontal alignment of text within the element. Choose from Left, Center, and Right.
Vertical align	Set the vertical alignment of the text within the element. Choose from Top, Middle, and Bottom.
Text size	Set the text size. Leave the field empty to allow Grafana to automatically set the text size.
API	Buttons only. Configure API options. For more information, refer to Button API options.

Icons don’t have text, so they have different options:

Option	Description
SVG Path	Choose whether the icon SVG file source is Fixed or Field. If you selected Fixed, choose a provided option or add a custom icon. If you selected Field, choose a field.
Fill color	Choose a fill color for the icon.

Layout

Control the placement of elements on the canvas with the following options:

Option	Description
Quick placement	Select an alignment option to automatically place the element. Choose from: Align left Align horizontal centers Align right Align top Align vertical centers Align bottom
Constraints	Set element constraints. Choose from: Left, Right, Left & Right, Center, and Scale. Use the Scale option to ensure that elements are automatically resized when the panel size changes.
Position	Use these settings to manually set the position of an element. Set any or all of the following options: top, left, width, height, and rotation.

Background (element)

Use the following options to set the background of the element:

Color - Set the background color.
Image - Use one of the provided background images or add your own custom image.

This option doesn’t apply to the button element.

Border (element)

Use the following options to set the border of the element:

Width - Set the border width in pixels.
Color - Set the border color. This option is only displayed when the border width is greater than zero.
Radius - Add rounded corners to the element border and control the degree of curve.

Data links and actions

Canvases support data links and actions for all elements.

If you add multiple data links or actions to an element, you can control the order in which they appear in the element tooltip. To do this, click and drag the link or action to the desired position.

The following tasks describe how to configure data links and actions.

Add data links

Add actions

To add a data link, follow these steps:

Enable inline editing.
Click the element to which you want to add the data link.
In either the inline editor or panel editor, expand the Selected element editor.
Scroll down to the Data links and actions section and expand it.
Click + Add link.
In the dialog box that opens, enter a Title.

This is a human-readable label for the link displayed in the UI. This is a required field.
Enter the URL or variable to which you want to link.

To add a data link variable, click in the URL field and enter $ or press Ctrl+Space or Cmd+Space to see a list of available variables. This is a required field.
If you want the link to open in a new tab, toggle the Open in a new tab switch.
If you want the data link to open with a single click on the element, toggle the One click switch.

Only one data link or action can have One click enabled at a time.
Click Save to save changes and close the dialog box.
Disable inline editing.

To add an action, by follow these steps:

Enable inline editing.
Click the element to which you want to add the data link.
In either the inline editor or panel editor, expand the Selected element editor.
Scroll down to the Data links and actions section and expand it.

Click + Add action. In the dialog box that opens, set the action options:

Option	Description
Title	A human-readable label for the action that’s displayed in the UI.
Confirmation message	A descriptive prompt to confirm or cancel the action.
One click	If you want the action to be triggered by a single click on the element, toggle the switch. Only one data link or action can have One click enabled at a time.
Method	Select from POST, PUT, or GET.
URL	The request URL or variable to which you want to link. To add a variable, click in the URL field and enter `$` or press Ctrl+Space or Cmd+Space to see a list of available variables.
Variables	Key and Name pairs with a type selection. Click the + icon to add as many variables as you need. To add a variable to the request, prefix the key with `$`. You can set the values for the variables when performing an action.
Query parameters	Key and Value pairs. Click the + icon to add as many key/value pairs as you need.
Headers	Comprised of Key and Value pairs and a Content-Type. Click the + icon to add as many key/value pairs as you need.
Content-Type	Select from the following: application/json, text/plain, application/XML, and application/x-www-form-urlencoded.
Body	The body of the request.

Click Save to save changes and close the dialog box.
Disable inline editing.

Selected connection options

You can style the selected connection using the following options:

Color - Set the connection color.
Size - Control the size of the connection by entering a number in the Value field.
Radius - Add curve to the connection by entering a value to represent the degree.
Direction - Control the appearance of the arrow head. Choose your source from Fixed or Field. The default value is Forward regardless of the source type.

If the direction source is Fixed, choose from:
- Forward - The arrow head points in the direction in which the connection was drawn.
- Reverse - The arrow head points in the opposite direction of which the connection was drawn.
- Both - Adds arrow heads to both ends of the connection.
- None - Removes the arrow head.
If the direction source is Field, select a field that contains numeric values:
- Positive values - Display forward arrows.
- Negative values - Display reverse arrows.
- Zero - Display no arrow heads.
Line style - Choose from the following line styles: Solid, Dashed, and Dotted.

Standard options

Option	Description
Unit	Choose which unit a field should use.
Min/Max	Set the minimum and maximum values used in percentage threshold calculations or leave these field empty for them to be calculated automatically.
Field min/max	Enable Field min/max to have Grafana calculate the min or max of each field individually, based on the minimum or maximum value of the field.
Decimals	Specify the number of decimals Grafana includes in the rendered value.
Display name	Set the display title of all fields. You can use variables in the field title.
Color scheme	Set single or multiple colors for your entire visualization.
No value	Enter what Grafana should display if the field value is empty or null. The default value is a hyphen (-).

To learn more, refer to Configure standard options.

Value mappings

Value mapping is a technique you can use to change how data appears in a visualization.

For each value mapping, set the following options:

Condition - Choose what’s mapped to the display text and (optionally) color:
- Value - Specific values
- Range - Numerical ranges
- Regex - Regular expressions
- Special - Special values like Null, NaN (not a number), or boolean values like true and false
Display text
Color (Optional)
Icon (Canvas only)

To learn more, refer to Configure value mappings.

Field overrides

Choose from the following override options:

Option	Description
Fields with name	Select a field from the list of all available fields.
Field with name matching regex	Specify fields to override with a regular expression.
Fields with type	Select fields by type, such as string, numeric, or time.
Fields returned by query	Select all fields returned by a specific query, such as A, B, or C.
Fields with values	Select all fields returned by your defined reducer condition, such as Min, Max, Count, Total.

To learn more, refer to Configure field overrides.

Thresholds

For each threshold, set the following options:

Option	Description
Value	Set the value for each threshold.
Thresholds mode	Choose from Absolute and Percentage.

To learn more, refer to Configure thresholds.

Dashboard list

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Dashboard list

Dashboard lists allow you to display dynamic links to other dashboards. You can configure the list to use starred dashboards, recently viewed dashboards, a search query, and dashboard tags.

On each dashboard load, this panel queries the dashboard list, always providing the most up-to-date results.

You can use a dashboard list visualization to display a list of important dashboards that you want to track.

Configure a dashboard list visualization

Once you’ve created a dashboard, the following video shows you how to configure a dashboard list visualization:

Give it a try using Grafana Play

With Grafana Play, you can explore and see how it works, learning from practical examples to accelerate your development. This feature can be seen on Dashboard List Visualization.

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Configuration options

The following section describes the configuration options available in the panel editor pane for this visualization. These options are, as much as possible, ordered as they appear in Grafana.

Panel options

In the Panel options section of the panel editor pane, set basic options like panel title and description, as well as panel links. To learn more, refer to Configure panel options.

Dashboard list options

Use the following options to refine your dashboard list visualization.

Option	Description
Include current time range	Propagate the time range of the current dashboard to the dashboard list links. When you click a link, the linked dashboard opens with the indicated time range already set.
Include current template variable values	Include template variables that are being used as query parameters in the dashboard list link. When you click the link, any matching templates in the linked dashboard are set to the values from the link. Learn more in Dashboard URL variables.
Starred	Display starred dashboards in alphabetical order.
Recently viewed	Display recently viewed dashboards in alphabetical order.
Search	Display dashboards returned by search. You must enter at least one value in the search fields, Query or Tags. Variable interpolation is supported for both fields. For example, `$my_var` or `${my_var}`.
Show headings	Headings for enabled sections are displayed. Sections are: Starred Recently viewed Search
Show folder names	Display the name of the folder where the dashboard is located.
Max items	Set the maximum number of items to list per section. If you enter “10” and enable Starred and Recently viewed dashboards, the panel displays up to 20 total dashboards, 10 in each section.
Query	Search by dashboard name. This option is only applied when the Search switch is toggled on.
Folder	Only dashboards from the selected folder are displayed in the dashboard list. This option is only applied when the Search switch is toggled on.
Tags	Search by tags. This option is only applied when the Search switch is toggled on.

Query

Use this field to search by dashboard name. Query terms are case-insensitive and partial values are accepted. For example, if you have dashboards called “Indoor Temps” and “Outdoor temp”, entering the word “temp” returns both results. This option is only applied when the Search switch is toggled on.

Folder

Only dashboards from the selected folder are included in search results and displayed in the dashboard list. To include all dashboards in search results, select the top-level Dashboards folder. This option is only applied when the Search switch is toggled on.

Flame graph

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Flame graph

Flame graphs let you visualize profiling data. Using this visualization, a profile can be represented as a flame graph, top table, or both.

For example, if you want to understand which parts of a program consume the most resources, such as CPU time, memory, or I/O operations, you can use a flame graph to visualize and analyze where potential performance issues are:

You can use a flame graph visualization if you need to:

Identify any performance hotspots to find where code optimizations may be needed.
Diagnose the root cause of any performance degradation.
Analyze the behavior of complex systems, including distributed systems or microservices architectures.

To learn more about how Grafana Pyroscope visualizes flame graphs, refer to Flame graphs: Visualizing performance data.

Configure a flame graph visualization

Once you’ve created a dashboard, the following video shows you how to configure a flame graph visualization:

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Supported data formats

To render a flame graph, you must format the data frame data using a nested set model.

A nested set model ensures each item of a flame graph is encoded by its nesting level as an integer value, its metadata, and by its order in the data frame. This means that the order of items is significant and needs to be correct. The ordering is a depth-first traversal of the items in the flame graph which recreates the graph without needing variable-length values in the data frame like in a children’s array.

Required fields:

Field name	Type	Description
level	number	The nesting level of the item. In other words how many items are between this item and the top item of the flame graph.
value	number	The absolute or cumulative value of the item. This translates to the width of the item in the graph.
label	string	Label to be shown for the particular item.
self	number	Self value, which is usually the cumulative value of the item minus the sum of cumulative values of its immediate children.

Example

The following table is an example of the type of data you need for a flame graph visualization and how it should be formatted:

level	value	self	label
0	16.5 Bil	16.5 K	total
1	4.10 Bil	4.10 k	test/pkg/agent.(*Target).start.func1
2	4.10 Bil	4.10 K	test/pkg/agent.(*Target).start.func1
3	3.67 Bil	3.67 K	test/pkg/distributor.(*Distributor).Push
4	1.13 Bil	1.13 K	compress/gzip.(*Writer).Write
5	1.06 Bil	1.06 K	compress/flat.(*compressor).write

Flame graph mode

A flame graph takes advantage of the hierarchical nature of profiling data. It condenses data into a format that allows you to easily see which code paths are consuming the most system resources, such as CPU time, allocated objects, or space when measuring memory. Each block in the flame graph represents a function call in a stack and its width represents its value.

Grayed-out sections are a set of functions that represent a relatively small value and they are collapsed together into one section for performance reasons.

You can hover over a specific function to view a tooltip that shows you additional data about that function, like the function’s value, percentage of total value, and the number of samples with that function.

You can click a function to show a drop-down menu with additional actions:

Focus block

When you click Focus block, the block, or function, is set to 100% of the flame graph’s width and all its child functions are shown with their widths updated relative to the width of the parent function. This makes it easier to drill down into smaller parts of the flame graph.

Copy function name

When you click Copy function name, the full name of the function that the block represents is copied.

Sandwich view

The sandwich view allows you to show the context of the clicked function. It shows all the function’s callers on the top and all the callees at the bottom. This shows the aggregated context of the function so if the function exists in multiple places in the flame graph, all the contexts are shown and aggregated in the sandwich view.

Grouping

Under the Grouping section of the menu, the following options let you expand and collapse groups of functions:

Expand group - Expands the grouped function you’ve clicked. Displayed if you click a function that’s been automatically grouped in the flame graph.
Expand all groups - Expands all grouped functions in the flame graph. Always displayed when you click the graph.
Collapse group - Collapses the expanded function you’ve clicked. Displayed if you click a function in the flame graph that’s been manually expanded.
Collapse all groups - Collapses all expanded functions in the flame graph. Displayed if there are any expanded functions when you click the graph.

Status bar

The status bar shows metadata about the flame graph and currently applied modifications, like what part of the graph is in focus or what function is shown in sandwich view. Click the X in the status bar pill to remove that modification.

Top table mode

The top table shows the functions from the profile in table format. The table has three columns: symbols, self, and total. The table is sorted by self time by default, but can be reordered by total time or symbol name by clicking the column headers. Each row represents aggregated values for the given function if the function appears in multiple places in the profile.

There are also action buttons on the left-most side of each row. The first button searches for the function name while second button shows the sandwich view of the function.

The following table lists the features of the toolbar:

Option	Description
Search	Use the search field to find functions with a particular name. All the functions in the flame graph that match the search will remain colored while the rest of the functions appear in gray.
Reset	Reset the flame graph back to its original state from a focus block or sandwich view. The reset icon is only displayed when the flame graph is in one of those two states.
Color schema picker	Switch between coloring functions by their value or by their package name to visually tie functions from the same package together.
Grouping	Expand or collapse all groups to show all instances of a function or show the function grouped.
Text align	Align text either to the left or to the right to show more important parts of the function name when it does not fit into the block.
Visualization picker	Choose to show only the flame graph, only table, or both at the same time.

Search

You can use the search field to find functions with a particular name. All the functions in the flame graph that match the search will remain colored while the rest of the functions are grayed-out.

Color schema picker

You can switch between coloring functions by their value or by their package name to visually tie functions from the same package together.

Configuration options

The following section describes the configuration options available in the panel editor pane for this visualization. These options are, as much as possible, ordered as they appear in Grafana.

Panel options

In the Panel options section of the panel editor pane, set basic options like panel title and description, as well as panel links. To learn more, refer to Configure panel options.

Standard options

You can customize the following standard options:

Option	Description
Unit	This option lets you choose which unit a field should use. For more information on unit options as well as creating custom units, refer to the unit configuration documentation.
Decimals	Specify the number of decimals Grafana includes in the rendered value.

Field overrides

Choose from the following override options:

Option	Description
Fields with name	Select a field from the list of all available fields.
Field with name matching regex	Specify fields to override with a regular expression.
Fields with type	Select fields by type, such as string, numeric, or time.
Fields returned by query	Select all fields returned by a specific query, such as A, B, or C.
Fields with values	Select all fields returned by your defined reducer condition, such as Min, Max, Count, Total.

To learn more, refer to Configure field overrides.

Gauge

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Gauge

Gauges are single-value visualizations that allow you to quickly visualize where a value falls within a defined or calculated min and max range. With repeat options, you can display multiple gauges, each corresponding to a different series, column, or row.

You can use gauges if you need to track:

Service level objectives (SLOs)
How full a piece of equipment is
How fast a vehicle is moving within a set of limits
Network latency
Equipment state with set point and alarm thresholds
CPU consumption (0-100%)
RAM availability

Configure a gauge visualization

The following video provides beginner steps for creating gauge panels. You’ll learn the data requirements and caveats, special customizations, and much more:

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Supported data formats

To create a gauge visualization you need a dataset containing at least one numeric field. These values are identified by the field name. Additional text fields aren’t required but can be used for identification and labeling.

Example - One row, multiple values

The gauge visualization can support multiple fields in a dataset.

value1	value2	value3
5	3	10

When there are multiple values in the dataset, the visualization displays multiple gauges and automatically defines the minimum and maximum. In this case, those are 3 and 10. Because the minimum and maximum values are defined, each gauge is shaded in to show that value in relation to the minimum and maximum.

Example - Multiple rows and values

The gauge visualization can display datasets with multiple rows of data or even multiple datasets.

Identifier	value1	value2	value3
A	5	3	10
B	6	9	15
C	1	4	8

By default, the visualization calculates a single value per column or series and displays only the last row of data. However, it derives the minimum and maximum from the full dataset, even if those values aren’t visible.

In this example, that means only the last row of data, row C, is displayed in the gauges and the minimum and maximum values are 1 and 15. The value 1 is displayed because it’s in the last row, while 15 is not.

If you want to show one gauge per table cell, under Value options, change the Show setting from Calculate to All values. Each gauge label is a concatenation of the text column with each value’s column name.

Example - Control min and max

You can control the minimum and maximum values by defining them directly in your dataset. This is an alternative to setting it manually in the field options.

value	max	min
5	10	2

In this example, to hide the min and max fields, select the “value” field in Value options > Fields.

Even when minimum and maximum values aren’t displayed, the visualization still pulls the range from them.

Configuration options

The following section describes the configuration options available in the panel editor pane for this visualization. These options are, as much as possible, ordered as they appear in Grafana.

Panel options

In the Panel options section of the panel editor pane, set basic options like panel title and description, as well as panel links. To learn more, refer to Configure panel options.

Value options

Use the following options to refine how your visualization displays the value:

Option	Description
Show	Set how Grafana displays your data. Choose from: Calculate - Show a calculated value based on all rows. All values - Show a separate value for every row. If you select this option, then you can also limit the number of rows to display.
Calculation	If you chose Calculate as your Show option, select a reducer function that Grafana will use to reduce many fields to a single value. For a list of available calculations, refer to Calculation types.
Limit	If you chose All values as your Show option, enter the maximum number of rows to display. The default is 5,000.
Fields	Select the fields display in the panel.

Gauge options

Adjust how the gauge is displayed.

Option	Description
Style	Choose a gauge shape: Circle - Fills clockwise around a circle, starting from the 12 o’clock position. Arc - Fills from left to right around an arc.
Orientation	Choose a stacking direction: Auto - Gauges display in rows and columns. Horizontal - Gauges display top to bottom. Vertical - Gauges display left to right.
Gauge size	Choose a gauge size mode: Auto - Grafana determines the best gauge size. Manual - Manually configure the gauge size. This option only applies when Orientation is set to Horizontal or Vertical.
Min width	Set the minimum width of vertically-oriented gauges. If you set a minimum width, the x-axis scrollbar is automatically displayed when there’s a large amount of data. This option only applies when Gauge size is set to Manual.
Min height	Set the minimum height of horizontally-oriented gauges. If you set a minimum height, the y-axis scrollbar is automatically displayed when there’s a large amount of data. This option only applies when Gauge size is set to Manual.
Bar width	Set a factor between 0.1 and 1 to control the width of the gauge bar relative to the total gauge area.
Segments	Enter a value between 1 and 100 to break the gauge into equal segments. Segments are always fully filled, even if the gauge’s current value falls within a segment.
Segment spacing	Enter a value between 0 and 1 to set the factor that controls the size of the gap between each segment. This option is only applies when the Segments value is more than `1`.
Text mode	Choose what text to render in the gauge: Auto - Grafana determines the text to show. Value and name - Renders both the value and series name. Value - Renders only the value. Name - Renders only the series name. None - Renders the gauge with no labels.
Neutral value	Set the starting value from which every gauge will be filled.
Show sparkline	Toggle on the switch to render a sparkline containing the series data for the gauge.
Show thresholds	Control whether a threshold band is shown outside the inner gauge value band.
Show labels	Control whether threshold, neutral and min/max labels are shown outside of the gauge.
Effects	Other styling choices you can apply to your gauge include: Gradient - Color transitions are represented with gradients for color schemes where the gauge color differs by value. Bar glow - Adds a glowing shadow outside the gauge bar. Center glow - The color representing the current gauge value is visible in the center of the gauge.

Neutral value

Set the starting value from which every gauge will be filled when it shouldn’t be the minimum value. This option is especially useful in cases where the range of data values includes negative numbers.

For example, you want to display the storage of several batteries and the power range is from -2.5 kW (discharging) to 2.5 kW. When the minimum value is used as the starting point for the gauges, the visualization looks like this:

If you enter a neutral value of 0, the visualization looks like this and is easier to reason about:

Show sparkline

If you want to visualize the list of values as a time series along with the calculated gauge value, toggle on the Show sparkline switch. Each gauge displays the sparkline inside the circle or arc:

Show thresholds

Control whether a threshold band is shown outside the inner gauge value band.

Text size options

Adjust the sizes of the gauge text.

Title - Enter a numeric value for the gauge title size.
Value - Enter a numeric value for the gauge value size.

Standard options

Option	Description
Unit	Choose which unit a field should use.
Min/Max	Set the minimum and maximum values used in percentage threshold calculations or leave these field empty for them to be calculated automatically.
Field min/max	Enable Field min/max to have Grafana calculate the min or max of each field individually, based on the minimum or maximum value of the field.
Decimals	Specify the number of decimals Grafana includes in the rendered value.
Display name	Set the display title of all fields. You can use variables in the field title.
Color scheme	Set single or multiple colors for your entire visualization.
No value	Enter what Grafana should display if the field value is empty or null. The default value is a hyphen (-).

To learn more, refer to Configure standard options.

Data links and actions

Note
Actions are not supported for this visualization.

For each data link, set the following options:

Title
URL
Open in new tab

Value mappings

Value mapping is a technique you can use to change how data appears in a visualization.

For each value mapping, set the following options:

Condition - Choose what’s mapped to the display text and (optionally) color:
- Value - Specific values
- Range - Numerical ranges
- Regex - Regular expressions
- Special - Special values like Null, NaN (not a number), or boolean values like true and false
Display text
Color (Optional)
Icon (Canvas only)

To learn more, refer to Configure value mappings.

Thresholds

For each threshold, set the following options:

Option	Description
Value	Set the value for each threshold.
Thresholds mode	Choose from Absolute and Percentage.

To learn more, refer to Configure thresholds.

Field overrides

Choose from the following override options:

Option	Description
Fields with name	Select a field from the list of all available fields.
Field with name matching regex	Specify fields to override with a regular expression.
Fields with type	Select fields by type, such as string, numeric, or time.
Fields returned by query	Select all fields returned by a specific query, such as A, B, or C.
Fields with values	Select all fields returned by your defined reducer condition, such as Min, Max, Count, Total.

To learn more, refer to Configure field overrides.

Geomap

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Geomap

Geomaps allow you to view and customize the world map using geospatial data. It’s the ideal visualization if you have data that includes location information and you want to see it displayed in a map.

You can configure and overlay map layers, like heatmaps and networks, and blend included basemaps or your own custom maps. This helps you to easily focus on the important location-based characteristics of the data.

When a geomap is in focus, in addition to typical mouse controls, you can pan around using the arrow keys or zoom in and out using the plus (+) and minus (-) keys or icons.

Geomaps are also useful when you have location data that’s changing in real time and you want to visualize where an element is moving, using auto-refresh.

You can use a geomap visualization if you need to:

Track your fleet of vehicles and associated metrics
Show the locations and statuses of data centers or other connected assets in a network
Display geographic trends in a heatmap
Visualize the relationship of your locations’ HVAC consumption or solar production with the sun’s location

Note
We’d love your feedback on the geomap visualization. Please check out the open Github issues and submit a new feature request as needed.

Configure a geomap visualization

The following video provides beginner steps for creating geomap visualizations. You’ll learn the data requirements and caveats, special customizations, preconfigured displays and much more:

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Supported data formats

To create a geomap visualization, you need datasets containing fields with location information.

The supported location formats are:

Latitude and longitude
Geohash
Lookup codes: country, US states, or airports

To learn more, refer to Location mode.

Geomaps also support additional fields with various data types to define things like labels, numbers, heat sizes, and colors.

Example - Latitude and longitude

If you plan to use latitude and longitude coordinates, the dataset must include at least two fields (or columns): one called latitude (you can also uselat), and one called longitude (also lon or lng). When you use this naming convention, the visualization automatically detects the fields and displays the elements. The order of the fields doesn’t matter as long as there is one latitude and one longitude.

Name	latitude	longitude	value
Disneyland	33.8121	-117.9190	4
DisneyWorld	28.3772	-81.5707	10
EuroDisney	48.867374	2.784018	3
Tokyo Disney	35.6329	139.8804	70
Shanghai Disney	31.1414	121.6682	1

If your latitude and longitude fields are named differently, you can specify them, as indicated in the Location mode section.

Example - Geohash

If your location data is in geohash format, the visualization requires at least one field (or column) containing location data.

If the field is named geohash, the visualization automatically detects the location and displays the elements. The order of the fields doesn’t matter and the data set can have multiple other numeric, text, and time fields.

Name	geohash	trips
Cancun	d5f21	8
Honolulu	87z9ps	0
Palm Cove	rhzxudynb014	1
Mykonos	swdj02ey9gyx	3

If your field containing geohash location data is not named as above, you can configure the visualization to use geohash and specify which field to use, as explained in the Location mode section.

Example - Lookup codes

The geomap visualization can identify locations based on country, airport, or US state codes.

For this configuration, the dataset must contain at least one field (or column) containing the location code.

If the field is named lookup, the visualization automatically detects it and displays points based on country codes.

Year	lookup	gdp
2016	MEX	104171935
2016	DEU	94393454
2016	FRA	83654250
2016	BRA	80921527
2016	CAN	79699762

The other location types— airport codes or US state codes—aren’t automatically detected.

If you want to use other codes or give the field a custom name, you can follow the steps in the Location mode section.

Configuration options

Panel options

In the Panel options section of the panel editor pane, set basic options like panel title and description, as well as panel links. To learn more, refer to Configure panel options.

Map view options

The map view controls the initial view of the map when the dashboard loads.

Initial View

The initial view configures how the geomap renders when the panel is first loaded.

View - Sets the center for the map when the panel first loads. Refer to the table following this list for view selections.
Zoom - Sets the initial zoom level.
Use current map settings - Use the settings of the current map to set the center.

View selection	Description
Fit to data	fits the map view based on the data extents of Map layers and updates when data changes. Data - option allows selection of extent based on data from “All layers”, a single “Layer”, or the “Last value” from a selected layer. Layer - can be selected if fitting data from a single “Layer” or the “Last value” of a layer. Padding - sets padding in relative percent beyond data extent (not available when looking at “Last value” only). Max zoom - sets the maximum zoom level when fitting data.
(0°, 0°)
Coordinates	sets the map view based on: Latitude and Longitude.

Default Views are also available including:


North America	South America	Europe	Africa	West Asia
South Asia	South-East Asia	East Asia	Australia	Oceania

The Share view option allows you to link the movement and zoom actions of multiple map visualizations within the same dashboard. The map visualizations that have this option enabled act in tandem when one of them is moved or zoomed, leaving the other ones independent.

Note
You might need to reload the dashboard for this feature to work.

No map repeating

The No map repeating option prevents the base map tiles from repeating horizontally when you pan across the world. This constrains the view to a single instance of the world map and avoids visual confusion when displaying global datasets. Enabling this option requires the map to reinitialize.

Sync view to dashboard variable

Stores the current map’s view extents in a dashboard variable of your choosing. This is particularly useful for dynamically querying data based on the map’s current extents.

To use the option, follow these steps:

Create a Custom type dashboard variable.
Return to panel configuration and toggle on this switch.
Select the newly created variable from the Variable name drop-down list.
Use the variable in your queries.

The variable contains comma-separated coordinates (EPSG:4326): minLon,minLat,maxLon,maxLat

Map layers options

Geomaps support showing multiple layers. Each layer determines how you visualize geospatial data on top of the base map.

There are three options that you need to set for all maps:

Other options are dependent on your map layer type and are described within the layer type section.

The layer controls allow you to create layers, change their name, reorder and delete layers.

Add layer creates an additional, configurable data layer for the geomap. When you add a layer, you are prompted to select a layer type. You can change the layer type at any point during panel configuration. See the Layer Types section above for details on each layer type.
Edit layer name (pencil icon) renames the layer.
Trash Bin deletes the layer.
Reorder (six dots/grab handle) allows you to change the layer order. Data on higher layers will appear above data on lower layers. The visualization will update the layer order as you drag and drop to help simplify choosing a layer order.

You can add multiple layers of data to a single geomap in order to create rich, detailed visualizations.

Layer type

There are eight map layer types to choose from in a geomap.

Markers renders a marker at each data point.
Heatmap visualizes a heatmap of the data.
GeoJSON renders static data from a GeoJSON file.
Night / Day renders a night / day region.
Route render data points as a route.
Photos renders a photo at each data point.
Network visualizes a network graph from the data.
Open Street Map adds a map from a collaborative free geographic world database.
CARTO basemap adds a layer from CARTO Raster basemaps.
ArcGIS MapServer adds a layer from an ESRI ArcGIS MapServer.
XYZ Tile layer adds a map from a generic tile layer.
MapLibre Style layer adds a map from a MapLibre/Mapbox style URL.

There are also two experimental (or alpha) layer types.

Icon at last point (alpha) renders an icon at the last data point.
Dynamic GeoJSON (alpha) styles a GeoJSON file based on query results.

To enable experimental layers. Set enable_alpha to true in your configuration file:

[panels]
enable_alpha = true

To enable the experimental layers using Docker, run the following command:

docker run -p 3000:3000 -e "GF_PANELS_ENABLE_ALPHA=true" grafana/grafana:<VERSION>

Data

Geomaps need a source of geographical data gathered from a data source query which can return multiple datasets. By default Grafana picks the first dataset, but this drop-down allows you to pick other datasets if the query returns more than one.

Location mode

There are four options to map the data returned by the selected query:

Auto automatically searches for location data. Use this option when your query is based on one of the following names for data fields.
- geohash: “geohash”
- latitude: “latitude”, “lat”
- longitude: “longitude”, “lng”, “lon”
- lookup: “lookup”
Coords specifies that your query holds coordinate data. You will get prompted to select numeric data fields for latitude and longitude from your database query.
Geohash specifies that your query holds geohash data. You will be prompted to select a string data field for the geohash from your database query.
Lookup specifies that your query holds location name data that needs to be mapped to a value. You will be prompted to select the lookup field from your database query and a gazetteer. The gazetteer is the directory that is used to map your queried data to a geographical point.

Markers layer

The markers layer allows you to display data points as different marker shapes such as circles, squares, triangles, stars, and more.

Option	Description
Data	Configure the data settings for the layer. For more information, refer to Data.
Location	Configure the data settings for the layer. For more information, refer to Location mode.
Size	Configures the size of the markers. The default is `Fixed size`, which makes all marker sizes the same regardless of the data; however, there is also an option to size the markers based on data corresponding to a selected field. `Min` and `Max` marker sizes have to be set such that the markers can scale within this range.
Symbol	Allows you to choose the symbol, icon, or graphic to aid in providing additional visual context to your data. Choose from assets that are included with Grafana such as simple symbols or the Unicon library. You can also specify a URL containing an image asset. The image must be a scalable vector graphic (SVG).
Symbol Vertical Align	Configures the vertical alignment of the symbol relative to the data point. Note that the symbol’s rotation angle is applied first around the data point, then the vertical alignment is applied relative to the rotation of the symbol.
Symbol Horizontal Align	Configures the horizontal alignment of the symbol relative to the data point. Note that the symbol’s rotation angle is applied first around the data point, then the horizontal alignment is applied relative to the rotation of the symbol.
Color	Configures the color of the markers. The default `Fixed color` sets all markers to a specific color. There is also an option to have conditional colors depending on the selected field data point values and the color scheme set in the `Standard options` section.
Fill opacity	Configures the transparency of each marker.
Rotation angle	Configures the rotation angle of each marker in degrees. The default is `Fixed value`, which makes all markers rotate to the same angle regardless of the data; however, there is also an option to set the rotation of the markers based on data corresponding to a selected field.
Text label	Configures a text label for each marker.
Show legend	Allows you to toggle the legend for the layer.
Display tooltip	Allows you to toggle tooltips for the layer.

Heatmap layer

The heatmap layer clusters various data points to visualize locations with different densities. To add a heatmap layer:

Click on the drop-down menu under Data Layer and choose Heatmap.

Similar to Markers, you are prompted with various options to determine which data points to visualize and how you want to visualize them.

Option	Description
Data	Configure the data settings for the layer. For more information, refer to Data.
Location	Configure the data settings for the layer. For more information, refer to Location mode.
Weight values	Configures the size of the markers. The default is `Fixed size`, which makes all marker sizes the same regardless of the data; however, there is also an option to size the markers based on data corresponding to a selected field. `Min` and `Max` marker sizes have to be set such that the markers can scale within this range.
Radius	Configures the size of the heatmap clusters.
Blur	Configures the amount of blur on each cluster.
Opacity	Configures the opacity of each cluster.
Display tooltip	Allows you to toggle tooltips for the layer.

GeoJSON layer

The GeoJSON layer allows you to select and load a static GeoJSON file from the filesystem.

Option	Description
GeoJSON URL	Provides a choice of GeoJSON files that are included with Grafana. You can also enter a URL manually, which supports variables.
Default Style	Controls which styles to apply when no rules above match. Color - configures the color of the default style Opacity - configures the default opacity
Style Rules	Apply styles based on feature properties Rule - allows you to select a feature, condition, and value from the GeoJSON file in order to define a rule. The trash bin icon can be used to delete the current rule. Color - configures the color of the style for the current rule Opacity - configures the transparency level for the current rule
Display tooltip	Allows you to toggle tooltips for the layer.

Styles can be set within the “properties” object of the GeoJSON with support for the following geometries:

Polygon, MultiPolygon

“fill” - The color of the interior of the polygon(s)
“fill-opacity” - The opacity of the interior of the polygon(s)
“stroke-width” - The width of the line component of the polygon(s)

Point, MultiPoint

“marker-color” - The color of the point(s)
“marker-size” - The size of the point(s)

LineString, MultiLineString

“stroke” - The color of the line(s)
“stroke-width” - The width of the line(s)

Night / Day layer

The Night / Day layer displays night and day regions based on the current time range.

Option	Description
Data	Configures the data set for the layer. For more information, refer to Data.
Show	Toggles the time source from panel time range.
Night region color	Picks the color for the night region.
Display sun	Toggles the sun icon.
Opacity	Set the opacity from `0` (transparent) to `1` (opaque).
Display tooltip	Allows you to toggle tooltips for the layer.

Extensions for OpenLayers - DayNight

Route layer

The Route layer renders data points as a route.

The layer can also render a route with arrows.

Option	Description
Data	configure the data settings for the layer. For more information, refer to Data.
Location	configure the data settings for the layer. For more information, refer to Location mode.
Size	sets the route thickness. Fixed value by default. When field data is selected you can set the Min and Max range in which field data can scale.
Color	sets the route color. Set to `Fixed color` by default. You can also tie the color to field data.
Fill opacity	configures the opacity of the route.
Text label	configures a text label for each route.
Arrow	sets the arrow styling to display along route, in order of data. Choose from: None, Forward, and Reverse
Display tooltip	allows you to toggle tooltips for the layer.

Extensions for OpenLayers - Flow Line Style

Photos layer

The Photos layer renders a photo at each data point.

Option	Description
Data	Configure the data settings for the layer. For more information, refer to Data.
Location	Configure the data settings for the layer. For more information, refer to Location mode.
Image Source field	Allows you to select a string field containing image data in either of the following formats: Image URLs Base64 encoded - Image binary (“data:image/png;base64,…”)
Kind	Sets the frame style around the images. Choose from: Square, Circle, Anchored, and Folio.
Crop	Toggles whether the images are cropped to fit.
Shadow	Toggles a box shadow behind the images.
Border	Sets the border size around images.
Border color	Sets the border color around images.
Radius	Sets the overall size of images in pixels.
Display tooltip	Allows you to toggle tooltips for the layer.

Extensions for OpenLayers - Image Photo Style

Network layer

The Network layer renders a network graph. This layer supports the same data format supported by the node graph visualization with the addition of geospatial data included in the nodes data. The geospatial data is used to locate and render the nodes on the map.

You can convert node graph data to a network layer:

Option	Description
Data	Configure the data settings for the layer. For more information, refer to Data.
Location	Configure the data settings for the layer. For more information, refer to Location mode.
Arrow	Sets the arrow direction to display for each edge, with forward meaning source to target. Choose from: None, Forward, Reverse and Both.
Show legend	Allows you to toggle the legend for the layer. Note: The legend currently only supports node data.
Display tooltip	Allows you to toggle tooltips for the layer.

Node styles options

Option	Description
Size	Configures the size of the nodes. The default is `Fixed size`, which makes all node sizes the same regardless of the data; however, there is also an option to size the nodes based on data corresponding to a selected field. `Min` and `Max` node sizes have to be set such that the nodes can scale within this range.
Symbol	Allows you to choose the symbol, icon, or graphic to aid in providing additional visual context to your data. Choose from assets that are included with Grafana such as simple symbols or the Unicon library. You can also specify a URL containing an image asset. The image must be a scalable vector graphic (SVG).
Color	Configures the color of the nodes. The default `Fixed color` sets all nodes to a specific color. There is also an option to have conditional colors depending on the selected field data point values and the color scheme set in the `Standard options` section.
Fill opacity	Configures the transparency of each node.
Rotation angle	Configures the rotation angle of each node in degrees. The default is `Fixed value`, which makes all nodes rotate to the same angle regardless of the data; however, there is also an option to set the rotation of the nodes based on data corresponding to a selected field.
Text label	Configures a text label for each node.

Edge styles options

Option	Description
Size	Configures the line width of the edges. The default is `Fixed size`, which makes all edge line widths the same regardless of the data; however, there is also an option to size the edges based on data corresponding to a selected field. `Min` and `Max` eges sizes have to be set such that the edges can scale within this range.
Color	Configures the color of the edges. The default `Fixed color` sets all edges to a specific color. There is also an option to have conditional colors depending on the selected field data point values and the color scheme set in the `Standard options` section.
Fill opacity	Configures the transparency of each edge.
Text label	Configures a text label for each edge.

Open Street Map layer

A map from a collaborative free geographic world database.

Opacity from 0 (transparent) to 1 (opaque)
Display tooltip - allows you to toggle tooltips for the layer.

About Open Street Map

CARTO basemap layer

A CARTO layer is from CARTO Raster basemaps.

Theme
- Auto
- Light
- Dark
Show labels shows the Country details on top of the map.
Opacity from 0 (transparent) to 1 (opaque)
Display tooltip - allows you to toggle tooltips for the layer.

About CARTO

ArcGIS MapServer layer

An ArcGIS layer is a layer from an ESRI ArcGIS MapServer.

Server Instance to select the map type.
- World Street Map
- World Imagery
- World Physical
- Topographic
- USA Topographic
- World Ocean
- Custom MapServer (see XYZ for formatting)
  - URL template
  - Attribution
Opacity from 0 (transparent) to 1 (opaque)
Display tooltip - allows you to toggle tooltips for the layer.

More Information

XYZ Tile layer

The XYZ Tile layer is a map from a generic tile layer.

URL template - Set a valid tile server url, with {z}/{x}/{y} for example: https://tile.openstreetmap.org/{z}/{x}/{y}.png
Attribution sets the reference string for the layer if displayed in map controls
Min zoom - Minimum zoom level. Tiles aren’t loaded below this level.
Max zoom - Maximum zoom level provided by the server. Beyond this level, the map is rendered by scaling up existing tiles.
Opacity from 0 (transparent) to 1 (opaque)
Dashboard variables - You can use dashboard variables in both the URL template and Attribution fields. This allows you to dynamically switch map sources or versions. Example: https://example.com/maps/${version}/{z}/{x}/{y}.png.

More information

MapLibre Style layer

The MapLibre Style Layer is a map defined using a MapLibre/Mapbox style.json URL. The style contains the URL to the tiles, layer definitions, and more. Typically, they’re based on vector tiles as opposed to raster tiles.

URL template - Set a valid style URL. For example: https://demotiles.maplibre.org/style.json
Access Token - An API token for mapbox maps. Only works for mapbox:// URLs. Refer to mapbox access tokens documentation for more information. In other cases, you might have to include the token in the URL. For example: https://example.com/map/style.json?key=XXX.

Basemap layer options

A basemap layer provides the visual foundation for a mapping application. It typically contains data with global coverage. Several base layer options are available each with specific configuration options to style the base map.

Basemap layer types can also be added as layers. You can specify an opacity.

There are five basemap layer types to choose from in a geomap.

Open Street Map adds a map from a collaborative free geographic world database.
CARTO basemap adds a layer from CARTO Raster basemaps.
ArcGIS MapServer adds a layer from an ESRI ArcGIS MapServer.
XYZ Tile layer adds a map from a generic tile layer.
MapLibre Style layer adds a map from a MapLibre/Mapbox style URL.

The default basemap layer uses the CARTO map. You can define custom default base layers in the .ini configuration file.

Configure the default base layer with provisioning

You can configure the default base map using config files with Grafana’s provisioning system. For more information on all the settings, refer to the provisioning docs page.

Use the JSON configuration option default_baselayer_config to define the default base map. There are currently five base map options to choose from: carto, esri-xyz, osm-standard, xyz, maplibre. Here are some provisioning examples for each base map option.

carto loads the CartoDB tile server. You can choose from auto, dark, and light theme for the base map and can be set as shown below. The showLabels tag determines whether or not Grafana shows the Country details on top of the map. Here is an example:

geomap_default_baselayer = `{
  "type": "carto",
  "config": {
    "theme": "auto",
    "showLabels": true
  }
}`

esri-xyz loads the ESRI tile server. There are already multiple server instances implemented to show the various map styles: world-imagery, world-physical, topo, usa-topo, and ocean. The custom server option allows you to configure your own ArcGIS map server. Here are some examples:

World imagery

Custom

geomap_default_baselayer = `{
  "type": "esri-xyz",
  "config": {
    "server": "world-imagery"
  }
}`

geomap_default_baselayer = `{
  "type": "esri-xyz",
  "config": {
    "server": "custom",
    "url": "[tile server url]",
    "attribution": "[tile server attribution]"
  }
}`

osm-standard loads the OpenStreetMap tile server. There are no additional configurations needed and the config fields can be left blank. Here is an example:

default_baselayer_config = `{
  "type": "osm-standard",
  "config": {}
}`

xyz loads a custom tile server defined by the user. Set a valid tile server url, with {z}/{x}/{y} for this option in order to properly load a default base map. Here is an example:

default_baselayer_config = `{
  "type": "xyz",
  "config": {
    "attribution": "Open street map",
    "url": "https://tile.openstreetmap.org/{z}/{x}/{y}.png"
  }
}`

maplibre loads a custom tile server defined by the user. Set a valid style url for this option to properly load a default base map. Here’s an example:

default_baselayer_config = `{
  "type": "maplibre",
  "config": {
    "url": "https://demotiles.maplibre.org/style.json"
  }
}`

enable_custom_baselayers allows you to enable or disable custom open source base maps that are already implemented. The default is true.

Map controls options

The map controls section contains various options for map information and tool overlays.

Option	Description
Show zoom control	Displays zoom controls in the upper left corner.
Mouse wheel zoom	Enables the mouse wheel to be used for zooming in or out.
Show attribution	Displays attribution for basemap layers.
Show scale	Displays scale information in the bottom left corner in meters (m) or kilometers (km).
Show measure tools	Displays measure tools in the upper right corner. This includes the Length and Area options.
Show debug	Displays debug information in the upper right corner.
Tooltip	Controls display of tooltips.

Show zoom control

Displays zoom controls in the upper left corner. This control can be useful when using systems that don’t have a mouse.

Mouse wheel zoom

Enables the mouse wheel to be used for zooming in or out.

Show attribution

Displays attribution for basemap layers.

Show scale

Displays scale information in the bottom left corner in meters (m) or kilometers (km).

Show measure tools

Displays measure tools in the upper right corner. Measurements appear only when this control is open.

Click to start measuring
Continue clicking to continue measurement
Double-click to end measurement

When you change measurement type or units, the previous measurement is removed from the map. If the control is closed and then re-opened, the most recent measurement is displayed. A measurement can be modified by clicking and dragging on it.

Length

Get the spherical length of a geometry. This length is the sum of the great circle distances between coordinates. For multi-part geometries, the length is the sum of the length of each part. Geometries are assumed to be in ‘EPSG:3857’.

Metric (m/km)
Feet (ft)
Miles (mi)
Nautical miles (nmi)

Area

Get the spherical area of a geometry. This area is calculated assuming that polygon edges are segments of great circles on a sphere. Geometries are assumed to be in ‘EPSG:3857’.

Square Meters (m²)
Square Kilometers (km²)
Square Feet (ft²)
Square Miles (mi²)
Acres (acre)
Hectare (ha)

Show debug

Displays debug information in the upper right corner. This can be useful for debugging or validating a data source.

Zoom displays current zoom level of the map.
Center displays the current longitude, latitude of the map center.

Tooltip

Tooltips are supported for the Markers, Heatmap, Photos layers. For these layer types, choose from the following tooltip options:

None displays tooltips only when a data point is clicked.
Details displays tooltips when a mouse pointer hovers over a data point.

When a data point on the geomap represents one row—that is, only a single row of response data is relevant to that point—the tooltip displays a grid with the row’s names and values:

When a data point represents more than one row—that is, different rows but with the same geographical information—then each row appears as a single entry:

The text displayed in each tooltip row is associated with the first field value in each data row. Click it to expand and display the full details of the data row.

Note
The data appearing in each detail row is determined by the underlying query and transformations applied to the query’s results, and can’t be directly controlled using tooltip options.

Standard options

Option	Description
Unit	Choose which unit a field should use.
Min/Max	Set the minimum and maximum values used in percentage threshold calculations or leave these field empty for them to be calculated automatically.
Field min/max	Enable Field min/max to have Grafana calculate the min or max of each field individually, based on the minimum or maximum value of the field.
Decimals	Specify the number of decimals Grafana includes in the rendered value.
Display name	Set the display title of all fields. You can use variables in the field title.
Color scheme	Set single or multiple colors for your entire visualization.
No value	Enter what Grafana should display if the field value is empty or null. The default value is a hyphen (-).

To learn more, refer to Configure standard options.

Data links and actions

Note
Actions are not supported for this visualization.

For each data link, set the following options:

Title
URL
Open in new tab

To learn more, refer to Configure data links and actions.

Value mappings

Value mapping is a technique you can use to change how data appears in a visualization.

For each value mapping, set the following options:

Condition - Choose what’s mapped to the display text and (optionally) color:
- Value - Specific values
- Range - Numerical ranges
- Regex - Regular expressions
- Special - Special values like Null, NaN (not a number), or boolean values like true and false
Display text
Color (Optional)
Icon (Canvas only)

To learn more, refer to Configure value mappings.

Thresholds

For each threshold, set the following options:

Option	Description
Value	Set the value for each threshold.
Thresholds mode	Choose from Absolute and Percentage.

To learn more, refer to Configure thresholds.

Field overrides

Choose from the following override options:

Option	Description
Fields with name	Select a field from the list of all available fields.
Field with name matching regex	Specify fields to override with a regular expression.
Fields with type	Select fields by type, such as string, numeric, or time.
Fields returned by query	Select all fields returned by a specific query, such as A, B, or C.
Fields with values	Select all fields returned by your defined reducer condition, such as Min, Max, Count, Total.

To learn more, refer to Configure field overrides.

Heatmap

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Heatmap

Heatmaps allow you to view histograms over time. While histograms display the data distribution that falls in a specific value range, heatmaps allow you to identify patterns in the histogram data distribution over time. For more information about heatmaps, refer to Introduction to histograms and heatmaps.

For example, if you want to understand the temperature changes for the past few years, you can use a heatmap visualization to identify trends in your data:

Give it a try using Grafana Play

With Grafana Play, you can explore and see how it works, learning from practical examples to accelerate your development. This feature can be seen on Grafana Heatmaps.

Try it

You can use a heatmap visualization if you need to:

Visualize a large density of your data distribution.
Condense large amounts of data through various color schemes that are easier to interpret.
Identify any outliers in your data distribution.
Provide statistical analysis to see how values or trends change over time.

Configure a heatmap visualization

Once you’ve created a dashboard, the following video shows you how to configure a heatmap visualization:

Supported data formats

Heatmaps support time series data.

Example

The table below is a simplified output of random walk distribution over time:

Time	Walking (km)
2023-06-25 21:13:09	10
2023-08-25 21:13:10	8
2023-08-30 21:13:10	10
2023-10-08 21:13:11	12
2023-12-25 21:13:11	14
2024-01-05 21:13:12	13
2024-02-22 21:13:13	10

The data is converted as follows:

Pan and zoom panel time range

You can pan the panel time range left and right, and zoom it and in and out. This, in turn, changes the dashboard time range.

Zoom in - Click and drag on the panel to zoom in on a particular time range.

Zoom out - Double-click anywhere on the panel to zoom out the time range.

Next range: 8:30 - 10:29
Next range: 7:30 - 11:29

Pan - Click and drag the x-axis area of the panel to pan the time range.

The time range shifts by the distance you drag. For example, if the original time range is from 9:00 to 9:59 and you drag 30 minutes to the right, the time range changes to 9:30 to 10:29.

For screen recordings showing these interactions, refer to the Panel overview documentation.

Configuration options

The following section describes the configuration options available in the panel editor pane for this visualization. These options are, as much as possible, ordered as they appear in Grafana.

Panel options

In the Panel options section of the panel editor pane, set basic options like panel title and description, as well as panel links. To learn more, refer to Configure panel options.

Heatmap options

The following options control how data in the heatmap is calculated and grouped.

Options	Description
Calculate from data	This setting determines if the data is already a calculated heatmap (from the data source/transformer), or one that should be calculated in the panel.
X Bucket	This setting determines how the x-axis is split into buckets. You can specify a time interval in the Size input. For example, a time range of `1h` makes the cells 1-hour wide on the x-axis. You can also set an interval based on Count.
Y Bucket	This setting determines how the y-axis is split into buckets. Choose from Size or Count.
Y Bucket scale	Select one of the following y-axis value scales: Linear - Linear scale. Logarithmic - Choose a Log base of 2 or 10. Symlog - Symlog scale. Choose a Log base of 2 or 10 and enter a value for the Linear threshold.

Y-Axis options

The following options define the display of the y-axis.

Options	Description
Placement	Set where the y-axis is displayed. Choose from: Left, Right, or Hidden.
Unit	Unit configuration.
Decimals	This setting determines decimal configuration.
Min/Max value	These settings configure the axis range.
Axis width	This setting configures the width for the axis.
Axis label	This setting configures the axis value.
Tick alignment	Sets the alignment of the tick marks on the visualization. Choose from: Auto, Top (LE), Middle, and Bottom (GE). This option is only displayed when your Calculate from data setting is No.
Reverse	When selected, the axis appears in reverse order.

Multiple y-axes

Colors options

The color spectrum controls the mapping between value count (in each bucket) and the color assigned to each bucket. The leftmost color on the spectrum represents the minimum count and the color on the right most side represents the maximum count. Some color schemes are automatically inverted when using the light theme.

You can also change the color mode to Opacity. In this case, the color will not change but the amount of opacity will change with the bucket count

Mode

Use the following options to define the heatmap colors.

Scheme - Bucket value represented by cell color.
- Scheme - If the mode is Scheme, then select a color scheme.
Opacity - Bucket value represented by cell opacity. Opaque cell means maximum value.
- Color - Cell base color.
- Scale - Scale for mapping bucket values to the opacity.
  - Exponential - Power scale. Cell opacity calculated as value ^ k, where k is a configured Exponent value. If exponent is less than 1, you will get a logarithmic scale. If exponent is greater than 1, you will get an exponential scale. In case of 1, scale will be the same as linear.
    - Exponent - Value of the exponent, greater than 0.
  - Linear - Linear scale. Bucket value maps linearly to the opacity.

Steps

Set a value between 1 and 128.

Reverse

Toggle the switch to reverse the color scheme. This option only applies the Scheme color mode.

Start/end color scale from value

By default, Grafana calculates cell colors based on minimum and maximum bucket values. With Min and Max you can overwrite those values. Consider a bucket value as a Z-axis and Min and Max as Z-Min and Z-Max, respectively.

Start - Minimum value using for cell color calculation. If the bucket value is less than Min, then it is mapped to the “minimum” color. The series min value is the default value.
End - Maximum value using for cell color calculation. If the bucket value is greater than Max, then it is mapped to the “maximum” color. The series max value is the default value.

Cell display options

Use these settings to control the display of heatmap cells.

Option	Description
Unit	Unit configuration.
Decimals	This setting determines decimal configuration.
Cell gap	Set how much space there is between cells.
Hide cells with values <=	Enter a value.
Hide cells with values >=	Enter a value.

Tooltip options

Tooltip options control the information overlay that appears when you hover over data points in the visualization.

Option	Description
Tooltip mode	When you hover your cursor over the visualization, Grafana can display tooltips. Choose how tooltips behave.
Show histogram (Y axis)	When you set the Tooltip mode to Single, this option is displayed. This option controls whether or not the tooltip includes a histogram representing the y-axis.
Show color scale	This option controls whether or not the tooltip includes the color scale that’s also represented in the legend.
Max width	Set the maximum width of the tooltip box.
Max height	Set the maximum height of the tooltip box. The default is 600 pixels.

Tooltip mode

When you hover your cursor over the visualization, Grafana can display tooltips. Choose how tooltips behave.

Single - The hover tooltip shows only a single series, the one that you are hovering over on the visualization.
All - The hover tooltip shows all series in the visualization. Grafana highlights the series that you are hovering over in bold in the series list in the tooltip.
Hidden - Do not display the tooltip when you interact with the visualization.

Use an override to hide individual series from the tooltip.

Show color scale

When you set the Tooltip mode to Single, this option is displayed. This option controls whether or not the tooltip includes the color scale that’s also represented in the legend. When the color scale is included in the tooltip, it shows the hovered value on the scale:

Legend options

Choose whether you want to display the heatmap legend on the visualization by toggling the Show legend switch.

Annotation options

Option	Description
Multi-row annotations	Breaks each annotation data frame into a separate row in the visualization. Only visible in panels that display more than one annotation.
Annotation clustering	Joins adjacent point annotations into a single annotation region. In public preview. Requires `annotationsClustering` feature flag.
Hide lines and areas	Controls display of annotation indicator lines, and shaded area for region annotations. In public preview. Requires `annotationsClustering` feature flag.

Exemplars

Set the color used to show exemplar data.

Data links and actions

Note
Actions are not supported for this visualization.

For each data link, set the following options:

Title
URL
Open in new tab

To learn more, refer to Configure data links and actions.

Field overrides

Choose from the following override options:

Option	Description
Fields with name	Select a field from the list of all available fields.
Field with name matching regex	Specify fields to override with a regular expression.
Fields with type	Select fields by type, such as string, numeric, or time.
Fields returned by query	Select all fields returned by a specific query, such as A, B, or C.
Fields with values	Select all fields returned by your defined reducer condition, such as Min, Max, Count, Total.

To learn more, refer to Configure field overrides.

Histogram

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Histogram

Histograms calculate the distribution of values and present them as a bar chart. Each bar represents a bucket; the y-axis and the height of each bar represent the count of values that fall into each bucket, and the x-axis represents the value range.

For example, if you want to understand the distribution of people’s heights, you can use a histogram visualization to identify patterns or insights in the data distribution:

You can use a histogram visualization if you need to:

Visualize and analyze data distributions over a specific time range to see how frequently certain values occur.
Identify any outliers in your data distribution.
Provide statistical analysis to help with decision-making

Configure a histogram visualization

After you’ve created a dashboard, the following video shows you how to configure a histogram visualization:

Give it a try using Grafana Play

With Grafana Play, you can explore and see how it works, learning from practical examples to accelerate your development. This feature can be seen on Histogram Examples.

Try it

Supported data formats

Histograms support time series and any table results with one or more numerical fields.

Examples

The following tables are examples of the type of data you need for a histogram visualization and how it should be formatted.

Time-series table

Time	Walking (km)
2024-03-25 21:13:09	37.2
2024-03-25 21:13:10	37.1
2024-03-25 21:13:10	37.0
2024-03-25 21:13:11	37.2
2024-03-25 21:13:11	36.9
2024-03-25 21:13:12	36.7
2024-03-25 21:13:13	36.3

The data is converted as follows:

Basic numerical table

Gender	Height (in)	Weight (lbs)
Male	73.8	242
Male	68.8	162
Male	74.1	213
Male	71.7	220
Male	69.9	206
Male	67.3	152
Male	68.8	184

The data is converted as follows:

Configuration options

The following section describes the configuration options available in the panel editor pane for this visualization. These options are, as much as possible, ordered as they appear in Grafana.

Panel options

In the Panel options section of the panel editor pane, set basic options like panel title and description, as well as panel links. To learn more, refer to Configure panel options.

Histogram options

Use the following options to refine your histogram visualization.

Option	Description
Bucket count	Specifies the number of bins used to group your data in the histogram, affecting the granularity of the displayed distribution. Leave this empty for automatic bucket count of 30.
Bucket size	The size of the buckets. Leave this empty for automatic bucket sizing (~10% of the full range).
Bucket offset	If the first bucket should not start at zero. A non-zero offset has the effect of shifting the aggregation window.
Combine series	This will merge all series and fields into a combined histogram.
Stacking	Controls how multiple series are displayed in the histogram. Choose from the following: Off - Series are not stacked, but instead shown side by side. Normal - Series are stacked on top of each other, showing cumulative values. 100% - Series are stacked to fill 100% of the chart, showing the relative proportion of each series.
Line width	Controls line width of the bars.
Fill opacity	Controls the fill opacity bars.
Gradient mode	Set the mode of the gradient fill. Fill gradient is based on the line color.

Bucket offset

If the first bucket should not start at zero, a non-zero offset has the effect of shifting the aggregation window.

For example, 5-sized buckets that are 0-5, 5-10, 10-15 with a default 0 offset would become 2-7, 7-12, 12-17 with an offset of 2; offsets of 0, 5, or 10, in this case, would effectively do nothing.

Typically, this option would be used with an explicitly defined bucket size rather than automatic. For this setting to affect, the offset amount should be greater than 0 and less than the bucket size; values outside this range have the same effect as values within this range.

Gradient mode

Set the mode of the gradient fill. Fill gradient is based on the line color. To change the color, use the standard color scheme field option.

Gradient display is influenced by the Fill opacity setting.

Choose from the following:

None - No gradient fill. This is the default setting.
Opacity - Transparency of the gradient is calculated based on the values on the Y-axis. The opacity of the fill is increasing with the values on the Y-axis.
Hue - Gradient color is generated based on the hue of the line color.
Scheme - The selected color palette is applied to the histogram bars.

Tooltip options

Tooltip options control the information overlay that appears when you hover over data points in the visualization.

Option	Description
Tooltip mode	When you hover your cursor over the visualization, Grafana can display tooltips. Choose how tooltips behave.
Values sort order	This option controls the order in which values are listed in a tooltip.
Max width	Set the maximum width of the tooltip box.
Max height	Set the maximum height of the tooltip box. The default is 600 pixels.

Tooltip mode

When you hover your cursor over the visualization, Grafana can display tooltips. Choose how tooltips behave.

Single - The hover tooltip shows only a single series, the one that you are hovering over on the visualization.
All - The hover tooltip shows all series in the visualization. Grafana highlights the series that you are hovering over in bold in the series list in the tooltip.
Hidden - Do not display the tooltip when you interact with the visualization.

Use an override to hide individual series from the tooltip.

Values sort order

When you set the Tooltip mode to All, the Values sort order option is displayed. This option controls the order in which values are listed in a tooltip. Choose from the following:

None - Grafana automatically sorts the values displayed in a tooltip.
Ascending - Values in the tooltip are listed from smallest to largest.
Descending - Values in the tooltip are listed from largest to smallest.

Legend options

Legend options control the series names and statistics that appear under or to the right of the graph. For more information about the legend, refer to Configure a legend.

Option	Description
Visibility	Toggle the switch to turn the legend on or off.
Mode	Use these settings to define how the legend appears in your visualization. List displays the legend as a list. This is a default display mode of the legend. Table displays the legend as a table.
Placement	Choose where to display the legend. Bottom places the legend below the graph. Right places the legend to the right of the graph.
Width	Control how wide the legend is when placed on the right side of the visualization. This option is only displayed if you set the legend placement to Right.
Limit	Limit how many series items are shown by default. The rest become expandable using a Show all link.
Values	Choose which of the standard calculations to show in the legend. You can have more than one.

Standard options

Option	Description
Unit	Choose which unit a field should use.
Min/Max	Set the minimum and maximum values used in percentage threshold calculations or leave these field empty for them to be calculated automatically.
Field min/max	Enable Field min/max to have Grafana calculate the min or max of each field individually, based on the minimum or maximum value of the field.
Decimals	Specify the number of decimals Grafana includes in the rendered value.
Display name	Set the display title of all fields. You can use variables in the field title.
Color scheme	Set single or multiple colors for your entire visualization.
No value	Enter what Grafana should display if the field value is empty or null. The default value is a hyphen (-).

To learn more, refer to Configure standard options.

Data links and actions

Note
Actions are not supported for this visualization.

For each data link, set the following options:

Title
URL
Open in new tab

To learn more, refer to Configure data links and actions.

Value mappings

Value mapping is a technique you can use to change how data appears in a visualization.

For each value mapping, set the following options:

Condition - Choose what’s mapped to the display text and (optionally) color:
- Value - Specific values
- Range - Numerical ranges
- Regex - Regular expressions
- Special - Special values like Null, NaN (not a number), or boolean values like true and false
Display text
Color (Optional)
Icon (Canvas only)

To learn more, refer to Configure value mappings.

Thresholds

For each threshold, set the following options:

Option	Description
Value	Set the value for each threshold.
Thresholds mode	Choose from Absolute and Percentage.

To learn more, refer to Configure thresholds.

Field overrides

Choose from the following override options:

Option	Description
Fields with name	Select a field from the list of all available fields.
Field with name matching regex	Specify fields to override with a regular expression.
Fields with type	Select fields by type, such as string, numeric, or time.
Fields returned by query	Select all fields returned by a specific query, such as A, B, or C.
Fields with values	Select all fields returned by your defined reducer condition, such as Min, Max, Count, Total.

To learn more, refer to Configure field overrides.

Logs

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Logs

Logs are structured records of events or messages generated by a system or application—that is, a series of text records with status updates from your system or app. They generally include timestamps, messages, and context information like the severity of the logged event.

The logs visualization displays these records from data sources that support logs, such as Elastic, Influx, and Loki. The logs visualization shows, by default, the timestamp, a colored string representing the log status, the log line body, as well as collapsible log events that help you analyze the information generated.

When the log line details are open, you have access to the following additional options:

Explain log line in Assistant
Copy to clipboard
Anchor to the right
Close log details

You can access the first three options from the log line details or from the log line menu:

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Typically, you use logs with a graph visualization to display the log output of a related process. If you have an incident in your application or systems, such as a website disruption or code failure, you can use the logs visualization to help you figure out what went wrong, when, and even why.

Configure a log visualization

The following video provides a walkthrough of creating a logs visualization. You’ll also learn how to customize some settings and log visualization caveats:

Supported data formats

The logs visualization works best with log-type datasets such as queries from data sources like Loki, Elastic, and InfluxDB.

You can also build log-formatted data from other data sources as long as the first field is a time type followed by string, number, and time fields. The leading time field is used to sort and timestamp the logs and if the data contains other time-type fields, they’re included as elements of the logged record.

The second field is used as the log record title regardless of whether it’s a time, numeric, or string field. Usually the second field is a text field containing multiple string elements, but if the message level (or lvl) is present, the visualization uses the values in it to add colors to the record, as described in Log levels integration.

Subsequent fields are collapsed inside of each log record.

To limit the number of log lines rendered in the visualization, you can use the Max data points setting in the panel Query options. If that option isn’t set, then the data source typically enforces its own default limit.

Example

Time	TitleMessage	Element1	Element2	Element3
2023-02-01 12:00:00	title=Log1 lvl=info	1	server2	2023-02-01 11:00:00
2023-02-01 11:30:00	title=Log1 lvl=error	1	server2	2023-02-01 11:00:00
2023-02-01 11:00:00	title=Log1 lvl=trace	1	server2	2023-02-01 11:00:00

Log level

For logs where a level label is specified, we use the value of the label to determine the log level and update color accordingly. If the log doesn’t have a level label specified, we try to find out if its content matches any of the supported expressions (see below for more information). The log level is always determined by the first match. In case Grafana is not able to determine a log level, it will be visualized with unknown log level. See supported log levels and mappings of log level abbreviation and expressions.

Configuration options

The following section describes the configuration options available in the panel editor pane for this visualization. These options are, as much as possible, ordered as they appear in Grafana.

Panel options

In the Panel options section of the panel editor pane, set basic options like panel title and description, as well as panel links. To learn more, refer to Configure panel options.

Logs options

Use these settings to refine your visualization:

Option	Description
Show timestamps	Show or hide the time column. This is the timestamp associated with the log line as reported from the data source.
Unique labels	Show or hide the unique labels column, which shows only non-common labels.
Wrap lines	Turn line wrapping on or off.
Prettify JSON	Toggle the switch on to pretty print all JSON logs. This setting does not affect logs in any format other than JSON.
Enable highlighting	Use a predefined syntax coloring grammar to highlight relevant parts of the log lines
Enable log details	Toggle the switch on to see an extendable area with log details including labels and detected fields. Each field or label has a stats icon to display ad-hoc statistics in relation to all displayed logs. The default setting is on.
Log Details panel mode	Choose to display the log details in a sidebar panel or inline, below the log line.
Enable infinite scrolling	Request more results by scrolling to the bottom of the logs list.
Show controls	Display controls to jump to the last or first log line, and filters by log level
Font size	Select between the default font size and small font size.
Deduplication	Hide log messages that are duplicates of others shown, according to your selected criteria. Choose from: Exact - Ignoring ISO datetimes. Numerical - Ignoring only those that differ by numbers such as IPs or latencies. Signatures - Removing successive lines with identical punctuation and white space.
Order	Set whether to show results Newest first or Oldest first.

News

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News

The news visualization displays an RSS feed. By default, it displays articles from the Grafana Labs blog, but you can change this by entering a different RSS feed URL.

Note
In version 8.5, we discontinued the “Use Proxy” option for Grafana news visualizations. As a result, RSS feeds that are not configured for request by Grafana’s frontend (with the appropriate CORS headers) may not load.

You can use the news visualization to provide regular news and updates to your users.

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Configure a news visualization

After you’ve created a dashboard, enter the URL of an RSS in the URL field in the News section. This visualization type doesn’t accept any other queries, and you shouldn’t expect to be able to filter or query the RSS feed data in any way using this visualization.

If you’re having trouble loading an RSS feed, you can try rehosting the feed on a different server or using a CORS proxy. A CORS proxy is a tool that allows you to bypass CORS restrictions by making requests to the RSS feed on your behalf. You can find more information about using CORS proxies online.

If you’re unable to display an RSS feed using the news visualization, you can try using the community RSS/Atom data source plugin RSS/Atom data source in combination with the Dynamic text community panel Dynamic text. This will allow you to display the RSS feed in a different way.

Supported data formats

The news visualization supports RSS and Atom feeds.

Configuration options

The following section describes the configuration options available in the panel editor pane for this visualization. These options are, as much as possible, ordered as they appear in Grafana.

Panel options

In the Panel options section of the panel editor pane, set basic options like panel title and description, as well as panel links. To learn more, refer to Configure panel options.

News options

Use the following options to refine your news visualization:

URL - The URL of the RSS or Atom feed.
Show image - Controls if the news social image is displayed beside the text content.

Node graph

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Node graph

Node graphs are useful when you need to visualize elements that are related to each other. This is done by displaying circles—or nodes—for each element you want to visualize, connected by lines—or edges. By default, the visualization uses a layered layout that positions the nodes into a network of connected circles.

Node graphs display useful information about each node, as well as the relationships between them, allowing you to visualize complex infrastructure maps, hierarchies, or execution diagrams.

The appearance of nodes and edges can also be customized in several ways including color, borders, and line style.

You can use a node graph visualization if you need to show:

Solution topologies
Networks
Infrastructure
Organizational charts
Critical path diagrams
Family trees
Mind maps

Configure a node graph visualization

The following video provides beginner steps for creating node panel visualizations. You’ll learn the data requirements and caveats, special customizations, and much more:

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Supported data formats

To create node graphs, you need two datasets: one containing the records for the displayed elements (nodes) and one dataset containing the records for the connections between those elements (edges).

Nodes dataset

The nodes dataset must contain one alphanumeric ID field that gives each element a unique identifier. The visualization also accepts other options fields for titles, subtitles, main and secondary stats, arc information for how much of the circle border to paint, details, colors, icons, node size, and indicators for element highlighting. For more information and naming conventions for these fields, refer to the Nodes data frame structure section.

Example

id	title	subtitle	mainstat	secondarystat	color	icon	highlighted
node1	PC	Windows	AMD	16gbRAM	blue		true
node2	PC	Linux	Intel	32gbRAM	green	eye	false
node3	Mac	MacOS	M3	16gbRAM	gray	apps	false
node4	Alone	SoLonely	JustHere	NotConnected	red		false

If the icon field contains a value, it’s displayed instead of the title and subtitle. For a list of of available icons, refer to Icons Overview.

Edges dataset

Similar to the nodes dataset, the edges dataset needs one unique ID field for each relationship, followed by two fields containing the source and the target nodes of the edge; that is, the nodes the edge connects. Other optional fields are main and secondary stats, context menu elements, line thickness, highlight indications, line colors, and configurations to turn the connection into a dashed line. For more information and naming conventions for these fields, refer to the Edges data frame structure section.

Example

id	source	target	mainstat	seconddarystat	thickness	highlighted	color
edge1	node1	node2	TheMain	TheSub	3	true	cyan
edge2	node3	node2	Main2	Sub2	1	false	orange

If a node lacks edge connections, it’s displayed on its own outside of the network.

Data requirements

A node graph requires a specific shape of the data to be able to display its nodes and edges. This means not every data source or query can be visualized with this graph. If you want to use this as a data source developer see the section about data API.

A node graph consists of nodes and edges.

A node is displayed as a circle. A node might represent an application, a service, or anything else that is relevant from an application perspective.
An edge is displayed as a line that connects two nodes. The connection might be a request, an execution, or some other relationship between the two nodes.

Both nodes and edges can have associated metadata or statistics. The data source defines what information and values is shown, so different data sources can show different type of values or not show some values.

Nodes

Note
Node graphs can show only 1,500 nodes. If this limit is crossed a warning will be visible in upper right corner, and some nodes will be hidden. You can expand hidden parts of the graph by clicking on the “Hidden nodes” markers in the graph.

Usually, nodes show two statistical values inside the node and two identifiers just below the node, usually name and type. Nodes can also show another set of values as a color circle around the node, with sections of different color represents different values that should add up to 1.

For example, you can have the percentage of errors represented by a red portion of the circle. Additional details can be displayed in a context menu which is displayed when you click on the node. There also can be additional links in the context menu that can target either other parts of Grafana or any external link.

Edges

Edges can also show statistics when you hover over the edge. Similar to nodes, you can open a context menu with additional details and links by clicking on the edge.

The first data source supporting this visualization is X-Ray data source for its Service map feature. For more information, refer to the X-Ray plugin documentation.

You can use pan, zoom, and other functions to navigate a node graph.

Pan

You can pan the view by clicking outside any node or edge and dragging your mouse.

Zoom

Use the buttons in the lower right corner to zoom in or out. You can also use the mouse wheel or touchpad scroll, together with either Ctrl or Cmd key to do so.

Switch layouts

Switch quickly between displaying the visualization in graph or grid layout.

Click a node and select either Show in Grid layout or Show in Graph layout, depending on the current layout of the visualization:

In grid layout, you can sort nodes by clicking on the stats inside the legend. The marker next to the stat name shows which stat is currently used for sorting and the sorting direction:

Switching between grid and other layouts this way only changes the layout temporarily. The visualization maintains the layout algorithm selected in the panel editor, and reverts to it when the dashboard refreshes.

For more information about layouts, refer to Layout algorithm.

Hidden nodes

The number of nodes shown at a given time is limited to maintain a reasonable visualization performance. Nodes that are not currently visible are hidden behind clickable markers that show an approximate number of hidden nodes that are connected by a particular edge. You can click on the marker to expand the graph around that node.

Configuration options

The following section describes the configuration options available in the panel editor pane for this visualization. These options are, as much as possible, ordered as they appear in Grafana.

Panel options

In the Panel options section of the panel editor pane, set basic options like panel title and description, as well as panel links. To learn more, refer to Configure panel options.

Node graph options

Use the following options to refine your node graph visualization.

Zoom mode

Choose how the node graph should handle zoom and scroll events:

Cooperative - Allows you to scroll the visualization normally.
Greedy - Reacts to all zoom gestures.

Layout algorithm

Choose how the visualization layout is generated:

Layered - Default. Creates a predictable and orderly layout, especially useful for service graphs.
Force - Uses a physics-based force layout algorithm that’s useful with a large number of nodes (500+).
Grid - Arranges nodes into a grid format to provide a better overview of the most interesting nodes in the graph. This layout shows nodes in a grid without edges and can be sorted by the stats shown inside the node or by the ones represented by the a colored border of the nodes.

For more information about using the graph in grid layout, refer to Switch layouts.

Nodes options

The Nodes options section provides configurations for node behaviors.

Main stat unit - Choose which unit the main stat displays in the graph’s nodes.
Secondary stat unit - Choose which unit the secondary stat displays in the graph’s nodes.
Arc sections - Configure which fields define the size of the colored circle around the node and select a color for each. You can add multiple fields.

Note
Defining arc sections overrides the automatic detection of arc__* and color fields described in the Optional fields section of Nodes data frame structure.

Edges options

The Edges options section provides configurations for node edges behaviors.

Main stat unit - Choose which unit the main stat displays in the graph’s edges.
Secondary stat unit - Choose which unit the secondary stat displays in the graph’s edges.

Data links

Note
Actions are not supported for this visualization.

For each data link, set the following options:

Title
URL
Open in new tab

To learn more, refer to Configure data links and actions.

In node graphs, some data fields may have pre-configured data links. To add a different data link in those cases, use a field override.

Field overrides

Choose from the following override options:

Option	Description
Fields with name	Select a field from the list of all available fields.
Field with name matching regex	Specify fields to override with a regular expression.
Fields with type	Select fields by type, such as string, numeric, or time.
Fields returned by query	Select all fields returned by a specific query, such as A, B, or C.
Fields with values	Select all fields returned by your defined reducer condition, such as Min, Max, Count, Total.

To learn more, refer to Configure field overrides.

Data API

This visualization needs a specific shape of the data to be returned from the data source in order to correctly display it.

Node graphs, at minimum, require a data frame describing the edges of the graph. By default, node graphs will compute the nodes and any stats based on this data frame. Optionally a second data frame describing the nodes can be sent in case there is need to show more node specific metadata. You have to set frame.meta.preferredVisualisationType = 'nodeGraph' on both data frames or name them nodes and edges respectively for the node graph to render.

Edges data frame structure

Required fields:

Field name	Type	Description
id	string	Unique identifier of the edge.
source	string	Id of the source node.
target	string	Id of the target.

Optional fields:

Field name	Type	Description
mainstat	string/number	First stat shown in the overlay when hovering over the edge. It can be a string showing the value as is or it can be a number. If it is a number, any unit associated with that field is also shown
secondarystat	string/number	Same as mainStat, but shown right under it.
detail__*	string/number	Any field prefixed with `detail__` will be shown in the header of context menu when clicked on the edge. Use `config.displayName` for more human readable label.
thickness	number	The thickness of the edge. Default: `1`
highlighted	boolean	Sets whether the edge should be highlighted. Useful, for example, to represent a specific path in the graph by highlighting several nodes and edges. Default: `false`
color	string	Sets the default color of the edge. It can be an acceptable HTML color string. Default: `#999`
strokeDasharray	string	Sets the pattern of dashes and gaps used to render the edge. If unset, a solid line is used as edge. For more information and examples, refer to the `stroke-dasharray` MDN documentation.

Caution
Starting with 10.5, highlighted is deprecated. It will be removed in a future release. Use color to indicate a highlighted edge state instead.

Nodes data frame structure

Required fields:

Field name	Type	Description
id	string	Unique identifier of the node. This ID is referenced by edge in its source and target field.

Optional fields:

Field name	Type	Description
title	string	Name of the node visible in just under the node.
subtitle	string	Additional, name, type or other identifier shown under the title.
mainstat	string/number	First stat shown inside the node itself. It can either be a string showing the value as is or a number. If it is a number, any unit associated with that field is also shown.
secondarystat	string/number	Same as mainStat, but shown under it inside the node.
arc__*	number	Any field prefixed with `arc__` will be used to create the color circle around the node. All values in these fields should add up to 1. You can specify color using `config.color.fixedColor`.
detail__*	string/number	Any field prefixed with `detail__` will be shown in the header of context menu when clicked on the node. Use `config.displayName` for more human readable label.
color	string/number	Can be used to specify a single color instead of using the `arc__` fields to specify color sections. It can be either a string which should then be an acceptable HTML color string or it can be a number in which case the behavior depends on `field.config.color.mode` setting. This can be for example used to create gradient colors controlled by the field value.
icon	string	Name of the icon to show inside the node instead of the default stats. Only Grafana built in icons are allowed.
nodeRadius	number	Radius value in pixels. Used to manage node size.
highlighted	boolean	Sets whether the node should be highlighted. Useful for example to represent a specific path in the graph by highlighting several nodes and edges. Default: `false`

Pie chart

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Pie chart

A pie chart is a graph that displays data as segments of a circle proportional to the whole, making it look like a sliced pie. Each slice corresponds to a value or measurement.

The pie chart visualization is ideal when you have data that adds up to a total and you want to show the proportion of each value compared to other slices, as well as to the whole of the pie.

You can use a pie chart if you need to compare:

Browser share distribution in the market
Incident causes per category
Network traffic sources
User demographics

Configure a pie chart visualization

The following video guides you through the creation steps and common customizations of pie chart visualizations and is great for beginners:

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Supported data formats

The pie chart is different from other visualizations in that it will only display one pie, regardless of the number of datasets, fields, or records queried in it.

To create a pie chart visualization, you need a dataset containing a set of numeric values either in rows, columns, or both.

Example - One row

The easiest way to provide data for a pie chart visualization is in a dataset with a single record (or row) containing the fields (or columns) that you want in the pie, as in the following example. The default settings of the pie chart visualization automatically display each column as a slice of the pie.

Value1	Value2	Value3	Optional
5	3	2	Sums10

Example - Multiple rows

If you need to use numeric data that’s in multiple rows, the default Show parameter of the visualization Value options is set to Calculate and use data from the last row.

Value	Label
5	Value1
3	Value2
2	Value3

By default, the visualization is configured to calculate a single value per column or series and to display only the last row of data.

To allow values in multiple rows to be displayed, change the Show setting in the Value options from Calculate to All values.

Example - Multiple rows and columns

If your dataset contains multiple rows and columns with numeric data, by default only the last row’s values are summed.

Value1	Value2	Value3	Optional
5	3	2	Sums10
10	6	4	Sums20
20	8	2	Sums30

If you want to display all the cells, change the Show setting in the Value options from Calculate to All values. This also labels the elements by concatenating all the text fields (if you have any) with the column name.

If you want to display only the values from a given field (or column), once the Show setting in the Value options is set to All values, set the Fields option to the column you wish to sum in the display. The value labels are also concatenated as indicated before.

Configuration options

The following section describes the configuration options available in the panel editor pane for this visualization. These options are, as much as possible, ordered as they appear in Grafana.

Panel options

In the Panel options section of the panel editor pane, set basic options like panel title and description, as well as panel links. To learn more, refer to Configure panel options.

Value options

Use the following options to refine the value in your visualization.

Option	Description
Show	Set how much information to show. Choose from: Calculate - Reduces each value to a single value per series. All values - Displays every value from a single series.
Calculation	If you chose Calculate as your Show option, select a calculation to reduce each series. For information about available calculations, refer to Calculation types.
Limit	If you chose All values as your Show option, enter a value to limit the number of values displayed.
Fields	Select which field or fields to display in the visualization. Each field name is available on the list, or you can select one of the following options: Numeric fields - All fields with numerical values. All fields - All fields that are not removed by transformations. Time - All fields with time values.

Pie chart options

Use these options to refine how your visualization looks.

Pie chart type

Select the pie chart display style. Choose from Pie or Donut.

Slice sorting

By default, the pie chart is sorted so that the slices decrease in size clockwise around the circle. You can configure the sorting of the slices, and by extension the legend, with the following options:

Descending - The slices decrease in size, clockwise (default).
Ascending - The slices increase in size, clockwise.
None - No sorting is applied. The original order of the data is maintained.

Labels

Select labels to display on the pie chart. You can select more than one.

Name - The series or field name.
Percent - The percentage of the whole.
Value - The raw numerical value.

Labels are displayed in white over the body of the chart. You might need to select darker chart colors to make them more visible. Long names or numbers might be clipped.

The following example shows a pie chart with Name and Percent labels displayed:

Tooltip options

Tooltip options control the information overlay that appears when you hover over data points in the visualization.

Option	Description
Tooltip mode	When you hover your cursor over the visualization, Grafana can display tooltips. Choose how tooltips behave.
Values sort order	This option controls the order in which values are listed in a tooltip.
Hide zeros	When you set the Tooltip mode to All, the Hide zeros option is displayed. This option controls whether or not series with `0` values are shown in the list in the tooltip.
Max width	Set the maximum width of the tooltip box.
Max height	Set the maximum height of the tooltip box. The default is 600 pixels.

Tooltip mode

When you hover your cursor over the visualization, Grafana can display tooltips. Choose how tooltips behave.

Single - The hover tooltip shows only a single series, the one that you are hovering over on the visualization.
All - The hover tooltip shows all series in the visualization. Grafana highlights the series that you are hovering over in bold in the series list in the tooltip.
Hidden - Do not display the tooltip when you interact with the visualization.

Use an override to hide individual series from the tooltip.

Values sort order

When you set the Tooltip mode to All, the Values sort order option is displayed. This option controls the order in which values are listed in a tooltip. Choose from the following:

None - Grafana automatically sorts the values displayed in a tooltip.
Ascending - Values in the tooltip are listed from smallest to largest.
Descending - Values in the tooltip are listed from largest to smallest.

Legend options

Use these settings to define how the legend appears in your visualization. For more information about the legend, refer to Configure a legend.

Option	Description
Visibility	Toggle the switch to turn the legend on or off.
Mode	Use these settings to define how the legend appears in your visualization. Choose from: List - Displays the legend as a list. This is a default display mode of the legend. Table - Displays the legend as a table.
Placement	Select where to display the legend. Choose Bottom or Right.
Width	Control how wide the legend is when placed on the right side of the visualization. This option is only displayed if you set the legend placement to Right.
Legend values	Select values to display in the legend. You can select more than one: Percent - The percentage of the whole. Value - The raw numerical value.

Standard options

Option	Description
Unit	Choose which unit a field should use.
Min/Max	Set the minimum and maximum values used in percentage threshold calculations or leave these field empty for them to be calculated automatically.
Field min/max	Enable Field min/max to have Grafana calculate the min or max of each field individually, based on the minimum or maximum value of the field.
Decimals	Specify the number of decimals Grafana includes in the rendered value.
Display name	Set the display title of all fields. You can use variables in the field title.
Color scheme	Set single or multiple colors for your entire visualization.
No value	Enter what Grafana should display if the field value is empty or null. The default value is a hyphen (-).

To learn more, refer to Configure standard options.

Data links and actions

Note
Actions are not supported for this visualization.

For each data link, set the following options:

Title
URL
Open in new tab

Value mappings

Value mapping is a technique you can use to change how data appears in a visualization.

For each value mapping, set the following options:

Condition - Choose what’s mapped to the display text and (optionally) color:
- Value - Specific values
- Range - Numerical ranges
- Regex - Regular expressions
- Special - Special values like Null, NaN (not a number), or boolean values like true and false
Display text
Color (Optional)
Icon (Canvas only)

To learn more, refer to Configure value mappings.

Field overrides

Choose from the following override options:

Option	Description
Fields with name	Select a field from the list of all available fields.
Field with name matching regex	Specify fields to override with a regular expression.
Fields with type	Select fields by type, such as string, numeric, or time.
Fields returned by query	Select all fields returned by a specific query, such as A, B, or C.
Fields with values	Select all fields returned by your defined reducer condition, such as Min, Max, Count, Total.

To learn more, refer to Configure field overrides.

Stat

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Stat

Note
This visualization replaces the Singlestat visualization, which was deprecated in Grafana 7.0 and removed in Grafana 8.0.

A stat visualization displays your data in single values of interest—such as the latest or current value of a series—with an optional graph sparkline. A graph sparkline, which is only available in stat visualizations, is a small time-series graph shown in the background of each value in the visualization.

For example, if you’re monitoring the utilization of various services, you can use a stat visualization to show their latest usage:

Use a stat visualization when you need to:

Monitor key metrics at a glance, such as the latest health of your application, number of high priority bugs in your application, or total number of sales.
Display aggregated data, such as the average response time of your services.
Highlight values above your normal thresholds to quickly identify if any metrics are outside your expected range.

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Configure a stat visualization

Once you’ve created a dashboard, the following video shows you how to configure a stat visualization:

Alternatively, refer to this blog post on how to easily retrieve values from a range in Grafana using a stat visualization.

Supported data formats

The stat visualization supports a variety of formats for displaying data. Supported formats include:

Single values - The most common format and can be numerical, strings, or boolean values.
Time-series data - Calculation types can be applied to your time-series data to display single values over a specified time range.

Examples

The following tables are examples of the type of data you need for a stat visualization and how it should be formatted.

Single numerical values

Number of high priority bugs
80
52
59
40

The data is visualized as follows, with the last value displayed, along with a sparkline and percentage change:

Time-series data

Time	Cellar	Living room	Porch	Bedroom	Guest room	Kitchen
2024-03-20 06:34:40	12.3	18.3	18.8	15.9	9.29	9.61
2024-03-20 06:41:40	16.8	17.1	21.5	14.1	10.5	17.5
2024-03-20 06:48:40	16.7	18.0	21.0	9.51	13.6	20.1
2024-03-20 06:55:40	14.3	18.7	16.5	9.11	14.8	12.5
2024-03-20 07:02:40	12.8	15.2	21.1	15.6	7.98	13.0

The data is visualized as follows, with the mean value displayed for each room, along with the room name, sparkline, and unit of measurement:

By default, a stat displays one of the following:

Just the value for a single series or field.
Both the value and name for multiple series or fields.

You can use the Text mode to control how the text is displayed.

Configuration options

The following section describes the configuration options available in the panel editor pane for this visualization. These options are, as much as possible, ordered as they appear in Grafana.

Panel options

In the Panel options section of the panel editor pane, set basic options like panel title and description, as well as panel links. To learn more, refer to Configure panel options.

Value options

Use the following options to refine how your visualization displays its values:

Option	Description
Show	Display a single value per column or series, or show values for each row. Choose from: Calculate - Display a calculated value based on all rows. All values - Show a separate stat for every row. If you select this option, then you can also limit the number of rows to display.
Calculation	This option is displayed when you select Calculate as your Show option. Select a reducer function that Grafana will use to reduce many fields to a single value. For a list of available calculations, refer to Calculation types.
Limit	This option is displayed when you select All values as your Show option. Set the maximum number of rows to display. Default is 5,000.
Fields	Select the fields displayed in the visualization.

Stat styles

The stat visualization automatically adjusts the layout depending on available width and height in the dashboard, but you can also use the following options to further style the visualization.

Option	Description
Orientation	Select a stacking direction. Choose from: Auto - Grafana selects the ideal orientation. Horizontal - Bars stretch horizontally, left to right. Vertical - Bars stretch vertically, top to bottom.
Text mode	You can use the Text mode option to control what text the visualization renders. If the value is not important, only the name and color is, then change the Text mode to Name. The value will still be used to determine color and is displayed in a tooltip.
Wide layout	Set whether wide layout is enabled or not. Wide layout is enabled by default. This option is only applicable when Text mode is set to Value and name.
Color mode	Select a color mode. Choose from: None - No color applied to the value. Value - Applies color to the value and graph area. Background Gradient - Applies color to the value, graph area, and background, with a slight background gradient. Background Solid - Applies color to the value, graph area, and background, with a solid background color.
Graph mode	Select a graph sparkline mode. Choose from: None - Hides the graph sparkline and only shows the value. Area - Shows the graph sparkline below the value. This requires that your query returns a time column. The graph sparkline is automatically hidden if the panel becomes too small.
Text alignment	Select an alignment mode. Choose from: Auto - If only a single value is shown (no repeat), then the value is centered. If multiple series or rows are shown, then the value is left-aligned. Center - Stat value is centered.
Show percent change	Set whether percent change is displayed or not. Disabled by default. This option is applicable when the Show setting, under Value options, is set to Calculate.
Percent change color mode	This option is only displayed when Show percent change is enabled. Choose from: Standard - Green if the percent change is positive, red if the percent change is negative. Inverted - Red if the percent change is positive, green if the percent change is negative. Same as Value - Use the same color as the value.

Text mode

You can use the Text mode option to control what text the visualization renders. If the value is not important, only the name and color is, then change the Text mode to Name. The value will still be used to determine color and is displayed in a tooltip.

Auto - If the data contains multiple series or fields, show both name and value.
Value - Show only value, never name. Name is displayed in the hover tooltip instead.
Value and name - Always show value and name.
Name - Show name instead of value. Value is displayed in the hover tooltip.
None - Show nothing (empty). Name and value are displayed in the hover tooltip.

Wide layout

Set whether wide layout is enabled or not. Wide layout is enabled by default.

On - Wide layout is enabled.
Off - Wide layout is disabled.

This option is only applicable when Text mode is set to Value and name. When wide layout is enabled, the value and name are displayed side-by-side with the value on the right, if the panel is wide enough. When wide layout is disabled, the value is always rendered underneath the name.

Standard options

Option	Description
Unit	Choose which unit a field should use.
Min/Max	Set the minimum and maximum values used in percentage threshold calculations or leave these field empty for them to be calculated automatically.
Field min/max	Enable Field min/max to have Grafana calculate the min or max of each field individually, based on the minimum or maximum value of the field.
Decimals	Specify the number of decimals Grafana includes in the rendered value.
Display name	Set the display title of all fields. You can use variables in the field title.
Color scheme	Set single or multiple colors for your entire visualization.
No value	Enter what Grafana should display if the field value is empty or null. The default value is a hyphen (-).

To learn more, refer to Configure standard options.

Data links and actions

Note
Actions are not supported for this visualization.

For each data link, set the following options:

Title
URL
Open in new tab

Value mappings

Value mapping is a technique you can use to change how data appears in a visualization.

For each value mapping, set the following options:

Condition - Choose what’s mapped to the display text and (optionally) color:
- Value - Specific values
- Range - Numerical ranges
- Regex - Regular expressions
- Special - Special values like Null, NaN (not a number), or boolean values like true and false
Display text
Color (Optional)
Icon (Canvas only)

To learn more, refer to Configure value mappings.

Thresholds

For each threshold, set the following options:

Option	Description
Value	Set the value for each threshold.
Thresholds mode	Choose from Absolute and Percentage.

To learn more, refer to Configure thresholds.

Field overrides

Choose from the following override options:

Option	Description
Fields with name	Select a field from the list of all available fields.
Field with name matching regex	Specify fields to override with a regular expression.
Fields with type	Select fields by type, such as string, numeric, or time.
Fields returned by query	Select all fields returned by a specific query, such as A, B, or C.
Fields with values	Select all fields returned by your defined reducer condition, such as Min, Max, Count, Total.

To learn more, refer to Configure field overrides.

State timeline

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State timeline

A state timeline visualization displays data in a way that shows state changes over time. In a state timeline, the data is presented as a series of bars or bands called state regions. State regions can be rendered with or without values, and the region length indicates the duration or frequency of a state within a given time range.

For example, if you’re monitoring the CPU usage of a server, you can use a state timeline to visualize the different states, such as “LOW,” “NORMAL,” “HIGH,” or “CRITICAL,” over time. Each state is represented by a different color and the lengths represent the duration of time that the server remained in that state:

The state timeline visualization is useful when you need to monitor and analyze changes in states or statuses of various entities over time. You can use one when you need to:

Monitor the status of a server, application, or service to know when your infrastructure is experiencing issues over time.
Identify operational trends over time.
Spot any recurring issues with the health of your applications.

Configure a state timeline

Give it a try using Grafana Play

With Grafana Play, you can explore and see how it works, learning from practical examples to accelerate your development. This feature can be seen on Grafana State Timeline & Status History.

Try it

Supported data formats

The state timeline visualization works best if you have data capturing the various states of entities over time, formatted as a table. The data must include:

Timestamps - Indicate when each state change occurred. This could also be the start time for the state change. You can also add an optional timestamp to indicate the end time for the state change.
Entity name/identifier - Represents the name of the entity you’re trying to monitor.
State value - Represents the state value of the entity you’re monitoring. These can be string, numerical, or boolean states.

Each state ends when the next state begins or when there is a null value.

Example 1

The following example has a single time column and includes null values:

Timestamps	Server A	Server B
2024-02-29 8:00:00	Up	Up
2024-02-29 8:15:00	null	Up
2024-02-29 8:30:00	Down	null
2024-02-29 8:45:00		Up
2024-02-29 9:00:00	Up
2024-02-29 9:15:00	Up	Down
2024-02-29 9:30:00	Up	Down
2024-02-29 10:00:00	Down	Down
2024-02-29 10:30:00	Warning	Down

The data is converted as follows, with the null and empty values visualized as gaps in the state timeline:

Example 2

The following example has two time columns and doesn’t include any null values:

Start time	End time	Server A	Server B
2024-02-29 8:00:00	2024-02-29 8:15:00	Up	Up
2024-02-29 8:15:00	2024-02-29 8:30:00	Up	Up
2024-02-29 8:45:00	2024-02-29 9:00:00	Down	Up
2024-02-29 9:00:00	2024-02-29 9:15:00	Down	Up
2024-02-29 9:30:00	2024-02-29 10:00:00	Down	Down
2024-02-29 10:00:00	2024-02-29 10:30:00	Warning	Down

The data is converted as follows:

If your query results aren’t in a table format like the preceding examples, especially for time-series data, you can apply specific transformations to achieve this.

Time series data

You can also create a state timeline visualization using time series data. To do this, add thresholds, which turn the time series into discrete colored state regions.

Pan and zoom panel time range

You can pan the panel time range left and right, and zoom it and in and out. This, in turn, changes the dashboard time range.

Zoom in - Click and drag on the panel to zoom in on a particular time range.

Zoom out - Double-click anywhere on the panel to zoom out the time range.

Next range: 8:30 - 10:29
Next range: 7:30 - 11:29

Pan - Click and drag the x-axis area of the panel to pan the time range.

The time range shifts by the distance you drag. For example, if the original time range is from 9:00 to 9:59 and you drag 30 minutes to the right, the time range changes to 9:30 to 10:29.

For screen recordings showing these interactions, refer to the Panel overview documentation.

Configuration options

The following section describes the configuration options available in the panel editor pane for this visualization. These options are, as much as possible, ordered as they appear in Grafana.

Panel options

In the Panel options section of the panel editor pane, set basic options like panel title and description, as well as panel links. To learn more, refer to Configure panel options.

State timeline options

Use these options to refine the visualization.

Option	Description
Merge equal consecutive values	Controls whether Grafana merges identical values if they are next to each other.
Show values	Controls whether values are rendered inside the state regions. Choose from Auto, Always, and Never. Auto renders values if there is sufficient space.
Align values	Controls value alignment inside state regions. Choose from Left, Center, and Right.
Row height	Controls how much space between rows there are. 1 = no space = 0.5 = 50% space.
Page size	The Page size option lets you paginate the state timeline visualization to limit how many series are visible at once.
Line width	Controls line width of state regions.
Fill opacity	Controls value alignment inside state regions.
Connect null values	Choose how null values, which are gaps in the data, appear on the graph.
Disconnect null values	Choose whether to set a threshold above which values in the data should be disconnected.

Page size (enable pagination)

The Page size option lets you paginate the state timeline visualization to limit how many series are visible at once. This is useful when you have many series. With paginated results, the visualization displays a subset of all series on each page:

Connect null values

Never - Time series data points with gaps in the data are never connected.
Always - Time series data points with gaps in the data are always connected.
Threshold - Specify a threshold above which gaps in the data are no longer connected. This can be useful when the connected gaps in the data are of a known size and/or within a known range, and gaps outside this range should no longer be connected.

Disconnect values

Choose whether to set a threshold above which values in the data should be disconnected.

Never - Time series data points in the data are never disconnected.
Threshold - Specify a threshold above which values in the data are disconnected. This can be useful when desired values in the data are of a known size and/or within a known range, and values outside this range should no longer be connected.

Legend options

When the legend option is enabled it can show either the value mappings or the threshold brackets. To show the value mappings in the legend, it’s important that the Color scheme as referenced in Color scheme is set to Single color or Classic palette. To see the threshold brackets in the legend set the Color scheme to From thresholds.

For more information about the legend, refer to Configure a legend.

Visibility

Toggle the switch to turn the legend on or off.

Mode

Use these settings to define how the legend appears in your visualization.

List - Displays the legend as a list. This is a default display mode of the legend.
Table - Displays the legend as a table.

Placement

Choose where to display the legend.

Bottom - Below the graph.
Right - To the right of the graph.

Width

Control how wide the legend is when placed on the right side of the visualization. This option is only displayed if you set the legend placement to Right.

Tooltip options

Tooltip options control the information overlay that appears when you hover over data points in the visualization.

Option	Description
Tooltip mode	When you hover your cursor over the visualization, Grafana can display tooltips. Choose how tooltips behave.
Values sort order	This option controls the order in which values are listed in a tooltip.
Max width	Set the maximum width of the tooltip box.
Max height	Set the maximum height of the tooltip box. The default is 600 pixels.

Tooltip mode

When you hover your cursor over the visualization, Grafana can display tooltips. Choose how tooltips behave.

Single - The hover tooltip shows only a single series, the one that you are hovering over on the visualization.
All - The hover tooltip shows all series in the visualization. Grafana highlights the series that you are hovering over in bold in the series list in the tooltip.
Hidden - Do not display the tooltip when you interact with the visualization.

Use an override to hide individual series from the tooltip.

Values sort order

When you set the Tooltip mode to All, the Values sort order option is displayed. This option controls the order in which values are listed in a tooltip. Choose from the following:

None - Grafana automatically sorts the values displayed in a tooltip.
Ascending - Values in the tooltip are listed from smallest to largest.
Descending - Values in the tooltip are listed from largest to smallest.

Annotation options

Option	Description
Multi-row annotations	Breaks each annotation data frame into a separate row in the visualization. Only visible in panels that display more than one annotation.
Annotation clustering	Joins adjacent point annotations into a single annotation region. In public preview. Requires `annotationsClustering` feature flag.
Hide lines and areas	Controls display of annotation indicator lines, and shaded area for region annotations. In public preview. Requires `annotationsClustering` feature flag.

Axis options

Option	Description
Placement	Control the visibility of series names along the y-axis or time values along the x-axis.
Width	Set a fixed width for the axis. By default, Grafana dynamically calculates the width of an axis.

Standard options

Option	Description
Unit	Choose which unit a field should use.
Min/Max	Set the minimum and maximum values used in percentage threshold calculations or leave these field empty for them to be calculated automatically.
Field min/max	Enable Field min/max to have Grafana calculate the min or max of each field individually, based on the minimum or maximum value of the field.
Decimals	Specify the number of decimals Grafana includes in the rendered value.
Display name	Set the display title of all fields. You can use variables in the field title.
Color scheme	Set single or multiple colors for your entire visualization.
No value	Enter what Grafana should display if the field value is empty or null. The default value is a hyphen (-).

To learn more, refer to Configure standard options.

Data links and actions

For each data link, set the following options:

Title
URL
Open in new tab
One click - Opens the data link with a single click. Only one data link can have One click enabled at a time.

For each action, define the following API call settings:

Option	Description
Title	A human-readable label for the action that’s displayed in the UI.
Confirmation message	A descriptive prompt to confirm or cancel the action.
Method	Select from POST, PUT, or GET.
URL	The request URL. To add a variable, click in the URL field and enter `$` or press Ctrl+Space or Cmd+Space to see a list of available variables.
Variables	Key and Name pairs with a type selection. Click the + icon to add as many variables as you need. To add a variable to the request, prefix the key with `$`. You can set the values for the variables when performing an action.
Query parameters	Key and Value pairs. Click the + icon to add as many key/value pairs as you need.
Headers	Comprised of Key and Value pairs and a Content-Type. Click the + icon to add as many key/value pairs as you need.
Content-Type	Select from the following: application/json, text/plain, application/XML, and application/x-www-form-urlencoded.
Body	The body of the request.

To learn more, refer to Configure data links and actions.

Value mappings

Value mapping is a technique you can use to change how data appears in a visualization.

For each value mapping, set the following options:

Condition - Choose what’s mapped to the display text and (optionally) color:
- Value - Specific values
- Range - Numerical ranges
- Regex - Regular expressions
- Special - Special values like Null, NaN (not a number), or boolean values like true and false
Display text
Color (Optional)
Icon (Canvas only)

To learn more, refer to Configure value mappings.

Thresholds

For each threshold, set the following options:

Option	Description
Value	Set the value for each threshold.
Thresholds mode	Choose from Absolute and Percentage.

To learn more, refer to Configure thresholds.

Field overrides

Choose from the following override options:

Option	Description
Fields with name	Select a field from the list of all available fields.
Field with name matching regex	Specify fields to override with a regular expression.
Fields with type	Select fields by type, such as string, numeric, or time.
Fields returned by query	Select all fields returned by a specific query, such as A, B, or C.
Fields with values	Select all fields returned by your defined reducer condition, such as Min, Max, Count, Total.

To learn more, refer to Configure field overrides.

Status history

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Status history

A status history visualization displays data in a way that shows periodic states over time. In a status history, each field or series is rendered as a horizontal row, with multiple boxes showing the different statuses. This provides you with a centralized view for the status of a component or service.

For example, if you’re monitoring the health status of different services, you can use a status history to visualize the different statuses, such as “True” or “False,” over time. Each status is represented by a different color:

Note
A status history is similar to a state timeline, but has different configuration options. Unlike state timelines, status histories don’t merge consecutive values.

Use a status history when you need to:

Monitor the status of a server, application, or service to know when your infrastructure is experiencing issues over time.
Identify operational trends over time.
Spot any recurring issues with the health of your applications.

Configure a status history

Once you’ve created a dashboard, you can use the following state timeline video as a reference for how to configure a status history:

Give it a try using Grafana Play

With Grafana Play, you can explore and see how it works, learning from practical examples to accelerate your development. This feature can be seen on Grafana State Timeline & Status History.

Try it

Supported data formats

The status history visualization works best if you have data capturing the various status of entities over time, formatted as a table. The data must include:

Timestamps - Indicate when each status change occurred. This could also be the start time for the status change. You can also add an optional timestamp to indicate the end time for the status change.
Entity name/identifier - Represents the name of the entity you’re trying to monitor.
Status value - Represents the state value of the entity you’re monitoring. These can be string, numerical, or boolean states.

Examples

The following tables are examples of the type of data you need for a status history visualization and how it should be formatted.

Single time column with null values

Timestamps	Backend_01	Backend_02
2024-02-29 8:00:00	OK	WARN
2024-02-29 8:15:00	WARN
2024-02-29 8:18:00		WARN
2024-02-29 8:30:00	BAD
2024-02-29 8:36:00		OK
2024-02-29 8:45:00	OK

The data is converted as follows, with the null and empty values visualized as gaps in the status history:

Two time columns without null values

Start time	End time	Backend_01	Backend_02
2024-02-29 8:00:00	2024-02-29 8:15:00	OK	OK
2024-02-29 8:15:00	2024-02-29 8:30:00	OK	OK
2024-02-29 8:30:00	2024-02-29 8:45:00	OK	OK
2024-02-29 8:45:00	2024-02-29 9:00:00	BAD	WARN
2024-02-29 9:00:00	2024-02-29 9:15:00	OK	WARN

The data is converted as follows:

Pan and zoom panel time range

You can pan the panel time range left and right, and zoom it and in and out. This, in turn, changes the dashboard time range.

Zoom in - Click and drag on the panel to zoom in on a particular time range.

Zoom out - Double-click anywhere on the panel to zoom out the time range.

Next range: 8:30 - 10:29
Next range: 7:30 - 11:29

Pan - Click and drag the x-axis area of the panel to pan the time range.

The time range shifts by the distance you drag. For example, if the original time range is from 9:00 to 9:59 and you drag 30 minutes to the right, the time range changes to 9:30 to 10:29.

For screen recordings showing these interactions, refer to the Panel overview documentation.

Configuration options

The following section describes the configuration options available in the panel editor pane for this visualization. These options are, as much as possible, ordered as they appear in Grafana.

Panel options

In the Panel options section of the panel editor pane, set basic options like panel title and description, as well as panel links. To learn more, refer to Configure panel options.

Status history options

Use these options to refine the visualization.

Option	Description
Show values	Controls whether values are rendered inside the state regions. Choose from Auto, Always, and Never. Auto renders values if there is sufficient space.
Row height	Controls the height of boxes. 1 = maximum space and 0 = minimum space.
Column width	Controls the width of boxes. 1 = maximum space and 0 = minimum space.
Page size (enable pagination)	The Page size option lets you paginate the status history visualization to limit how many series are visible at once. This is useful when you have many series.
Line width	Controls line width of state regions.
Fill opacity	Controls value alignment inside state regions.

Legend options

For more information about the legend, refer to Configure a legend.

Visibility

Toggle the switch to turn the legend on or off.

Mode

Use these settings to define how the legend appears in your visualization.

List - Displays the legend as a list. This is a default display mode of the legend.
Table - Displays the legend as a table.

Placement

Choose where to display the legend.

Bottom - Below the graph.
Right - To the right of the graph.

Width

Control how wide the legend is when placed on the right side of the visualization. This option is only displayed if you set the legend placement to Right.

Tooltip options

Tooltip options control the information overlay that appears when you hover over data points in the visualization.

Option	Description
Tooltip mode	When you hover your cursor over the visualization, Grafana can display tooltips. Choose how tooltips behave.
Values sort order	This option controls the order in which values are listed in a tooltip.
Max width	Set the maximum width of the tooltip box.
Max height	Set the maximum height of the tooltip box. The default is 600 pixels.

Tooltip mode

When you hover your cursor over the visualization, Grafana can display tooltips. Choose how tooltips behave.

Single - The hover tooltip shows only a single series, the one that you are hovering over on the visualization.
All - The hover tooltip shows all series in the visualization. Grafana highlights the series that you are hovering over in bold in the series list in the tooltip.
Hidden - Do not display the tooltip when you interact with the visualization.

Use an override to hide individual series from the tooltip.

Values sort order

When you set the Tooltip mode to All, the Values sort order option is displayed. This option controls the order in which values are listed in a tooltip. Choose from the following:

None - Grafana automatically sorts the values displayed in a tooltip.
Ascending - Values in the tooltip are listed from smallest to largest.
Descending - Values in the tooltip are listed from largest to smallest.

Annotation options

Option	Description
Multi-row annotations	Breaks each annotation data frame into a separate row in the visualization. Only visible in panels that display more than one annotation.
Annotation clustering	Joins adjacent point annotations into a single annotation region. In public preview. Requires `annotationsClustering` feature flag.
Hide lines and areas	Controls display of annotation indicator lines, and shaded area for region annotations. In public preview. Requires `annotationsClustering` feature flag.

Axis options

Option	Description
Placement	Control the visibility of series names along the y-axis or time values along the x-axis.
Width	Set a fixed width for the axis. By default, Grafana dynamically calculates the width of an axis.

Standard options

Option	Description
Unit	Choose which unit a field should use.
Min/Max	Set the minimum and maximum values used in percentage threshold calculations or leave these field empty for them to be calculated automatically.
Field min/max	Enable Field min/max to have Grafana calculate the min or max of each field individually, based on the minimum or maximum value of the field.
Decimals	Specify the number of decimals Grafana includes in the rendered value.
Display name	Set the display title of all fields. You can use variables in the field title.
Color scheme	Set single or multiple colors for your entire visualization.
No value	Enter what Grafana should display if the field value is empty or null. The default value is a hyphen (-).

To learn more, refer to Configure standard options.

Data links and actions

For each data link, set the following options:

Title
URL
Open in new tab
One click - Opens the data link with a single click. Only one data link can have One click enabled at a time.

For each action, define the following API call settings:

Option	Description
Title	A human-readable label for the action that’s displayed in the UI.
Confirmation message	A descriptive prompt to confirm or cancel the action.
Method	Select from POST, PUT, or GET.
URL	The request URL. To add a variable, click in the URL field and enter `$` or press Ctrl+Space or Cmd+Space to see a list of available variables.
Variables	Key and Name pairs with a type selection. Click the + icon to add as many variables as you need. To add a variable to the request, prefix the key with `$`. You can set the values for the variables when performing an action.
Query parameters	Key and Value pairs. Click the + icon to add as many key/value pairs as you need.
Headers	Comprised of Key and Value pairs and a Content-Type. Click the + icon to add as many key/value pairs as you need.
Content-Type	Select from the following: application/json, text/plain, application/XML, and application/x-www-form-urlencoded.
Body	The body of the request.

To learn more, refer to Configure data links and actions.

Value mappings

Value mapping is a technique you can use to change how data appears in a visualization.

For each value mapping, set the following options:

Condition - Choose what’s mapped to the display text and (optionally) color:
- Value - Specific values
- Range - Numerical ranges
- Regex - Regular expressions
- Special - Special values like Null, NaN (not a number), or boolean values like true and false
Display text
Color (Optional)
Icon (Canvas only)

To learn more, refer to Configure value mappings.

Thresholds

For each threshold, set the following options:

Option	Description
Value	Set the value for each threshold.
Thresholds mode	Choose from Absolute and Percentage.

To learn more, refer to Configure thresholds.

Field overrides

Choose from the following override options:

Option	Description
Fields with name	Select a field from the list of all available fields.
Field with name matching regex	Specify fields to override with a regular expression.
Fields with type	Select fields by type, such as string, numeric, or time.
Fields returned by query	Select all fields returned by a specific query, such as A, B, or C.
Fields with values	Select all fields returned by your defined reducer condition, such as Min, Max, Count, Total.

To learn more, refer to Configure field overrides.

Table

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Table

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.

Note
Annotations and alerts are not currently supported for tables.

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:

Give it a try using Grafana Play

With Grafana Play, you can explore and see how it works, learning from practical examples to accelerate your development. This feature can be seen on Table Visualizations in Grafana.

Try it

Supported data formats

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

Note
If you’re using a cell type such as sparkline or JSON, the data requirements may differ in a way that’s specific to that type. For more info refer to Cell type.

Example

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

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:

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:

In Grafana, navigate to the dashboard with the table with the columns that you want to filter.
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.
Click the menu and select Edit.
In the panel editor pane, expand the Table options section.
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:

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

Grafana displays the filter options for that column.
Click the checkbox next to the values that you want to display or click Select all.
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.
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: =, !=, <, <=, >, >=.
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 filters from the table

In tables, you can apply 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 filters this way, refer to Dashboard drilldown with 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

In the Panel options section of the panel editor pane, set basic options like panel title and description, as well as panel links. To learn more, refer to Configure panel options.

Table options

Option	Description
Show table header	Show or hide column names imported from your data source.
Frozen columns	Freeze columns starting from the left side of the table. Enter a value to set how many columns are frozen.
Cell height	Set the height of the cell. Choose from Small, Medium, or Large.
Max row height	Define the maximum height for a row in the table. This can be useful when Wrap text is enabled for one or more columns.
Enable pagination	Toggle the switch to control how many table rows are visible at once. When switched on, the page size automatically adjusts to the height of the table. This option doesn’t affect queries.
Minimum column width	Define the lower limit of the column width, in pixels. By default, the minimum width of the table column is 150 pixels. For small-screen devices, such as mobile phones or tablets, reduce the value to `50` to allow table-based panels to render correctly in dashboards.
Column width	Define a column width, in pixels, rather than allowing the width to be set automatically. By default, Grafana calculates the column width based on the table size and the minimum column width.
Column alignment	Set how Grafana should align cell contents. Choose from: Auto (default), Left, Center, or Right.
Column filter	Temporarily change how column data is displayed. For example, show or hide specific values. For more information, refer to Column filtering.
Wrap text	Enables text wrapping for cell content.
Wrap header text	Enables text wrapping for column headers.

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.

Note
Calculations applied to cell types like Markdown + HTML might have unexpected results.

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.

Cell type	Description
Auto	A basic text and number cell.
Colored text	If thresholds, value mappings, or color schemes are set, then the cell text is displayed in the appropriate color.
Colored background	If thresholds, value mappings, or color schemes are set, then the cell background is displayed in the appropriate color.
Data links	The cell text reflects the titles of the configured data links.
Gauge	Values are displayed as a horizontal bar gauge. You can set the Gauge display mode and the Value display options.
Sparkline	Shows values rendered as a sparkline.
JSON View	Shows values formatted as code.
Pill	Displays each item in a comma-separated string in a colored block.
Markdown + HTML	Displays rich markdown or HTML content.
Image	Displays an image when the value is a URL or a base64 encoded image.
Actions	The cell displays a button that triggers a basic, unauthenticated API call when clicked.

Auto

This is a basic text and number cell.

It has the following cell options:

Option Description

Cell value inspect

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.

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.

Tooltip from field 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.

Styling from field Toggle on the Styling from field switch to apply the styling from another field (or column). The referenced field must contain CSS properties formatted in JSON object syntax (for example, {"name":"John"}). For more information, refer to the Styling from field.

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:

Option Description

Cell value inspect

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.

Tooltip from field 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.

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:

Option	Description
Background display mode	Choose between Basic and Gradient.
Apply to entire row	Toggle the switch on to apply the background color that’s configured for the cell to the whole row.
Cell value inspect	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. 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.
Tooltip from field	Toggle on the Tooltip from field switch to use the values from another field (or column) in a tooltip. For more information, refer to the Tooltip from field.
Styling from field	Toggle on the Styling from field switch to apply the styling from another field (or column). The referenced field must contain CSS properties formatted in JSON object syntax (for example, `{"name":"John"}`). For more information, refer to the Styling from field.

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:

Option	Description
Gauge display mode	Controls the type of gauge used. For more information, refer to the Gauge display mode.
Value display	Controls how the value is displayed. For more information, refer to the Value display.
Tooltip from field	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.
Styling from field	Toggle on the Styling from field switch to apply the styling from another field (or column). The referenced field must contain CSS properties formatted in JSON object syntax (for example, `{"name":"John"}`). For more information, refer to the Styling from field.

Note
The maximum and minimum values of the gauges are configured automatically from the smallest and largest values in your whole dataset. If you don’t want the max/min values to be pulled from the whole dataset, you can configure them for each column using field overrides.

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.

Option	Description
Hide value	Toggle the switch on or off to display or hide the cell value on the sparkline.
Style	Choose whether to display your time-series data as Lines, Bars, or Points. You can use overrides to combine multiple styles in the same graph.
Line interpolation	How the graph interpolates the series line. Choose from: Linear - Points are joined by straight lines. Smooth - Points are joined by curved lines that smooths transitions between points. Step before - The line is displayed as steps between points. Points are rendered at the end of the step. Step after - The line is displayed as steps between points. Points are rendered at the beginning of the step.
Line width	The thickness of the series lines or the outline for bars using the Line width slider.
Fill opacity	The series area fill color using the Fill opacity slider.
Gradient mode	Gradient mode controls the gradient fill, which is based on the series color. Gradient appearance is influenced by the Fill opacity setting. To change the color, use the standard color scheme field option. For more information, refer to Color scheme. Choose from: None - No gradient fill. This is the default setting. Opacity - An opacity gradient where the opacity of the fill increases as y-axis values increase. Hue - A subtle gradient that’s based on the hue of the series color.
Line style	Choose from: Solid Dash - Select the length and gap for the line dashes. Default dash spacing is 10, 10. Dots - Select the gap for the dot spacing. Default dot spacing is 0, 10.
Connect null values	How null values, which are gaps in the data, appear on the graph. Null values can be connected to form a continuous line or set to a threshold above which gaps in the data are no longer connected. Choose from: Never - Time series data points with gaps in the data are never connected. Always - Time series data points with gaps in the data are always connected. Threshold - Specify a threshold above which gaps in the data are no longer connected. This can be useful when the connected gaps in the data are of a known size or within a known range, and gaps outside this range should no longer be connected.
Show points	Whether to show data points to lines or bars. Choose from: Auto - Grafana determines a point’s visibility based on the density of the data. If the density is low, then points appear. Always - Show the points regardless of how dense the dataset is. Never - Don’t show points.
Point size	Set the size of the points, from 1 to 40 pixels in diameter.
Bar alignment	Set the position of the bar relative to a data point.
Tooltip from field	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.
Styling from field	Toggle on the Styling from field switch to apply the styling from another field (or column). The referenced field must contain CSS properties formatted in JSON object syntax (for example, `{"name":"John"}`). For more information, refer to the Styling from field.

JSON View

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

It has the following cell options:

Option Description

Cell value inspect

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.

Tooltip from field 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.

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:

Option	Description
Alt text	Set the alternative text of an image. The text will be available for screen readers and in cases when images can’t be loaded.
Title text	Set the text that’s displayed when the image is hovered over with a cursor.
Tooltip from field	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.

Actions

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

Option	Description
Endpoint	Enter the endpoint URL.
Method	Choose from GET, POST, and PUT.
Content-Type	Select an option in the drop-down list. Choose from: JSON, Text, JavaScript, HTML, XML, and x-www-form-urlencoded.
Query parameters	Enter as many Key, Value pairs as you need.
Header parameters	Enter as many Key, Value pairs as you need.
Payload	Enter the body of the API call.
Tooltip from field	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.

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.

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:

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.

Styling from field

Toggle on the Styling from field switch to apply the styling from another field (or column). The referenced field must contain CSS properties formatted in JSON object syntax. For example:

{"marginLeft":12, "text-decoration": "underline"}

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

The “Style” field has JSON objects with CSS properties. (Note that they are formatted for use in CSV format in this example.)
The “Style” field is hidden using the Table > Hide in table override property.
The “Info” field is using the Cell options > Styling from field override property with the “Style” field as the source.

The following image shows the “Info” field with the styling from the “Style” field applied:

Standard options

Option	Description
Unit	Choose which unit a field should use.
Min/Max	Set the minimum and maximum values used in percentage threshold calculations or leave these field empty for them to be calculated automatically.
Field min/max	Enable Field min/max to have Grafana calculate the min or max of each field individually, based on the minimum or maximum value of the field.
Decimals	Specify the number of decimals Grafana includes in the rendered value.
Display name	Set the display title of all fields. You can use variables in the field title.
Color scheme	Set single or multiple colors for your entire visualization.
No value	Enter what Grafana should display if the field value is empty or null. The default value is a hyphen (-).

To learn more, refer to Configure standard options.

Data links and actions

For each data link, set the following options:

Title
URL
Open in new tab

For each action, define the following API call settings:

Option	Description
Title	A human-readable label for the action that’s displayed in the UI.
Confirmation message	A descriptive prompt to confirm or cancel the action.
Method	Select from POST, PUT, or GET.
URL	The request URL. To add a variable, click in the URL field and enter `$` or press Ctrl+Space or Cmd+Space to see a list of available variables.
Variables	Key and Name pairs with a type selection. Click the + icon to add as many variables as you need. To add a variable to the request, prefix the key with `$`. You can set the values for the variables when performing an action.
Query parameters	Key and Value pairs. Click the + icon to add as many key/value pairs as you need.
Headers	Comprised of Key and Value pairs and a Content-Type. Click the + icon to add as many key/value pairs as you need.
Content-Type	Select from the following: application/json, text/plain, application/XML, and application/x-www-form-urlencoded.
Body	The body of the request.

To learn more, refer to Configure data links and actions.

Value mappings

Value mapping is a technique you can use to change how data appears in a visualization.

For each value mapping, set the following options:

Condition - Choose what’s mapped to the display text and (optionally) color:
- Value - Specific values
- Range - Numerical ranges
- Regex - Regular expressions
- Special - Special values like Null, NaN (not a number), or boolean values like true and false
Display text
Color (Optional)
Icon (Canvas only)

To learn more, refer to Configure value mappings.

Thresholds

For each threshold, set the following options:

Option	Description
Value	Set the value for each threshold.
Thresholds mode	Choose from Absolute and Percentage.

To learn more, refer to Configure thresholds.

Field overrides

Choose from the following override options:

Option	Description
Fields with name	Select a field from the list of all available fields.
Field with name matching regex	Specify fields to override with a regular expression.
Fields with type	Select fields by type, such as string, numeric, or time.
Fields returned by query	Select all fields returned by a specific query, such as A, B, or C.
Fields with values	Select all fields returned by your defined reducer condition, such as Min, Max, Count, Total.

To learn more, refer to Configure field overrides.

Text

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Text

Text visualizations let you include text or HTML in your dashboards. This can be used to add contextual information and descriptions or embed complex HTML.

For example, if you want to display important links on your dashboard, you can use a text visualization to add these links:

Give it a try using Grafana Play

With Grafana Play, you can explore and see how it works, learning from practical examples to accelerate your development. This feature can be seen on Text Panel.

Try it

Use a text visualization when you need to:

Add important links or useful annotations.
Provide instructions or guidance on how to interpret different panels, configure settings, or take specific actions based on the displayed data.
Announce any scheduled maintenance or downtime that might impact your dashboards.

Configuration options

The following section describes the configuration options available in the panel editor pane for this visualization. These options are, as much as possible, ordered as they appear in Grafana.

Panel options

In the Panel options section of the panel editor pane, set basic options like panel title and description, as well as panel links. To learn more, refer to Configure panel options.

Text options

Use the following options to refine your text visualization.

Option	Description
Mode	Determines how embedded content appears. Choose from: Markdown - Formats the content as markdown. HTML - Renders the content as sanitized HTML. If you require more direct control over the output, you can set the disable_sanitize_html flag which enables you to directly enter HTML. Code - Renders content inside a read-only code editor. Variables in the content are expanded for display. To allow embedding of iframes and other websites, you need set `allow_embedding = true` in your Grafana `config.ini` or environment variables (depending on your employment).
Language	When you choose Code as your text mode, select an appropriate language to apply syntax highlighting to the embedded text.
Show line numbers	Displays line numbers in the panel preview when you choose Code as your text mode.
Show mini map	Displays a small outline of the embedded text in the panel preview when you choose Code as your text mode.

Traces

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Traces

Traces visualizations let you follow a request as it traverses the services in your infrastructure. The traces visualization displays traces data in a diagram that allows you to easily interpret it. Traces visualizations currently render one trace traversal based on the traceID used in TraceQL or using a variable.

For more information about traces and how to use them, refer to the following documentation:

Give it a try using Grafana Play

With Grafana Play, you can explore and see how it works, learning from practical examples to accelerate your development. This feature can be seen on Traces Panel.

Try it

Add a panel with tracing visualizations

After you have tracing data available in your Grafana instance, you can add tracing panels to your Grafana dashboards.

Using a dashboard variable, traceID, lets you create a query to show specific traces for a given trace ID. For more information about dashboard variables, refer to the Variables documentation.

Before you begin

To use this procedure, you need:

A Grafana instance
A Tempo data source connected to your Grafana instance

Steps

To view and analyze traces data in a dashboard, you need to add the traces visualization to your dashboard and define a query using the panel editor. The query determines the data that is displayed in the visualization. For more information on the panel editor, refer to the Panel editor documentation.

This procedure uses dashboard variables and templates to allow you to enter trace IDs which can then be visualized. You’ll use a variable called traceId and add it as a template query.

From your Grafana instance, do one of the following:
- On a new dashboard: Click or drag a panel onto the dashboard.
- On an existing dashboard: Click Edit in the top-right corner, click the Add new element icon, and then click or drag a panel onto the dashboard.
Click Configure visualization to open panel edit mode.
In the query editor, click the data source list and select the appropriate tracing data source.
In the top-right corner of the panel editor, select the All visualizations tab, search for, and select Traces.
Under the Panel options, enter a Title for your trace panel or have Grafana create one using generative AI features.

For more information on the panel editor, refer to the Configure panel options documentation.
In the query editor, click the TraceQL query type tab.
Enter ${traceId} in the TraceQL query field to create a dashboard variable. This variable is used as the template query.
Click Back to dashboard.
Click the Add new element icon and click Variable.
Add a new variable called traceId, of variable type Custom, giving it a label if required.
Click Save.
Enter an optional description of your changes, and click Save.
Click Exit edit.
Verify that the panel works by using a valid trace ID for the data source used for the trace panel and editing the ID in the dashboard variable.

Add TraceQL with table visualizations

While you can add a trace visualization to a dashboard, having to manually add trace IDs as a dashboard variable is cumbersome. It’s more useful to instead be able to use TraceQL queries to search for specific types of traces and then select appropriate traces from matching results.

In the same dashboard where you added the trace visualization, click Edit in the top-right corner.
Click the Add new element icon, and then click or drag a panel onto the dashboard.
Click Configure visualization.
Select the same trace data source you used in the previous task.
In the top-right corner of the panel editor, select the All visualizations tab, search for, and select Table.
In the query editor, select the TraceQL tab.
Under the Panel options, enter a Title for your trace panel or have Grafana create one using generative AI features.
Add an appropriate TraceQL query to search for traces that you would like to visualize in the dashboard. This example uses a simple, static query. You can write the TraceQL query as a template query to take advantage of other dashboard variables, if they exist. This lets you create dynamic queries based on these variables.
Click Save.
Enter an optional description of your changes, and click Save.
Click Back to dashboard and Exit edit.

When results are returned from a query, the results are rendered in the panel’s table.

Use a variable to add other links to traces

The results in the traces visualization include links to the Explore page that renders the trace. You can add other links to traces in the table that fill in the traceId dashboard variable when selected, so that the trace is visualized in the same dashboard.

To create a set of data links in the panel, use the following steps:

In the panel editor menu, under Data links, click Add link.
Add a Title for the data link.
Find the UUID of the dashboard by looking in your browser’s address bar when the full dashboard is being rendered. Because this is a link to a dashboard in the same Grafana instance, only the path of the dashboard is required.
In the URL field, make a self-reference to the dashboard that contains both of the panels. This self-reference uses the value of the selected trace in the table to fill in the dashboard variable. Use the path for the dashboard from the previous step and then fill in the value of traceId using the selected results from the TraceQL table. The trace ID is exposed using the traceID data field in the returned results, so use that as the value for the dashboard variable.
Select Save to save the data link.
Enter an optional description of your changes, and click Save.
Click Back to dashboard and Exit edit.

You should now see a list of matching traces in the table visualization. While selecting the TraceID or SpanID fields will give you the option to either open the Explore page to visualize the trace or following the data link, selecting any other field (such as Start time, Name or Duration) automatically follows the data link, filling in the traceId dashboard variable, and then shows the relevant trace in the trace panel.

Configuration options

The following section describes the configuration options available in the panel editor pane for this visualization. These options are, as much as possible, ordered as they appear in Grafana.

Panel options

In the Panel options section of the panel editor pane, set basic options like panel title and description, as well as panel links. To learn more, refer to Configure panel options.

Span filters options

The Span filters options control the initial state of the span filters when the visualization loads, allowing you to customize your trace analysis view.

The following options support variable interpolation, where you can set the service name to a variable $var and the visualization will replace it with the value for the variable named $var in the span filters: Service name, Span name, Min duration, Max duration, and Tags.

Option	Description
Find in trace	Set the initial value to focus on spans relevant to your query.
Show matches only	Toggle the switch on to display only spans that match the defined filter criteria. This helps simplify trace interpretation.
Show critical path only	Toggle the switch on to highlight only the spans in the critical path, which helps identify performance bottlenecks and their impact on overall latency.
Service name	Along with the Service name operator, define a specific service or pattern to narrow analysis to spans related to particular services.
Span name	Along with the Span name operator, filter spans by name or pattern to focus on specific span types or processes.
Min duration	Set the minimum duration threshold to exclude spans outside the desired time range.
Max duration	Set the maximum duration threshold to exclude spans outside the desired time range.
Tags	Add one or more tags to further refine the filtering criteria so only relevant spans are displayed.

Trend

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Trend

Trend visualizations should be used for datasets that have a sequential, numeric x-field that is not time. Some examples are function graphs, rpm/torque curves, supply/demand relationships, and elevation or heart rate plots along a race course (with x as distance or duration from start).

For example, you could represent engine power and torque versus speed where speed is plotted on the x-axis and power and torque are plotted on the y-axes:

Trend visualizations support all visual styles and options available in the time series visualization with these exceptions:

No annotations or time regions
No shared cursor/crosshair
No multi-timezone x-axis
No ability to change the dashboard time range using drag-selection

Configuration options

The following section describes the configuration options available in the panel editor pane for this visualization. These options are, as much as possible, ordered as they appear in Grafana.

Panel options

In the Panel options section of the panel editor pane, set basic options like panel title and description, as well as panel links. To learn more, refer to Configure panel options.

X axis options

In the X field option, select a field that contains increasing numeric values.

Tooltip options

Tooltip options control the information overlay that appears when you hover over data points in the visualization.

Option	Description
Tooltip mode	When you hover your cursor over the visualization, Grafana can display tooltips. Choose how tooltips behave.
Values sort order	This option controls the order in which values are listed in a tooltip.
Hide zeros	When you set the Tooltip mode to All, the Hide zeros option is displayed. This option controls whether or not series with `0` values are shown in the list in the tooltip.
Hover proximity	Set the hover proximity (in pixels) to control how close the cursor must be to a data point to trigger the tooltip to display.
Max width	Set the maximum width of the tooltip box.
Max height	Set the maximum height of the tooltip box. The default is 600 pixels.

Tooltip mode

When you hover your cursor over the visualization, Grafana can display tooltips. Choose how tooltips behave.

Single - The hover tooltip shows only a single series, the one that you are hovering over on the visualization.
All - The hover tooltip shows all series in the visualization. Grafana highlights the series that you are hovering over in bold in the series list in the tooltip.
Hidden - Do not display the tooltip when you interact with the visualization.

Use an override to hide individual series from the tooltip.

Values sort order

When you set the Tooltip mode to All, the Values sort order option is displayed. This option controls the order in which values are listed in a tooltip. Choose from the following:

None - Grafana automatically sorts the values displayed in a tooltip.
Ascending - Values in the tooltip are listed from smallest to largest.
Descending - Values in the tooltip are listed from largest to smallest.

Hover proximity

Legend options

Legend options control the series names and statistics that appear under or to the right of the graph. For more information about the legend, refer to Configure a legend.

Option	Description
Visibility	Toggle the switch to turn the legend on or off.
Mode	Use these settings to define how the legend appears in your visualization. List displays the legend as a list. This is a default display mode of the legend. Table displays the legend as a table.
Placement	Choose where to display the legend. Bottom places the legend below the graph. Right places the legend to the right of the graph.
Width	Control how wide the legend is when placed on the right side of the visualization. This option is only displayed if you set the legend placement to Right.
Limit	Limit how many series items are shown by default. The rest become expandable using a Show all link.
Values	Choose which of the standard calculations to show in the legend. You can have more than one.

Graph styles options

The options under the Graph styles section let you control the general appearance of the graph, excluding color.

Option	Description
Style	Choose whether to display your time-series data as Lines, Bars, or Points.
Line interpolation	Choose how the graph interpolates the series line.
Line width	Set the thickness of the series lines or the outline for bars using the Line width slider.
Fill opacity	Set the series area fill color using the Fill opacity slider.
Gradient mode	Choose a gradient mode to control the gradient fill, which is based on the series color.
Line style	Choose a solid, dashed, or dotted line style.
Connect null values	Choose how null values, which are gaps in the data, appear on the graph.
Disconnect values	Choose whether to set a threshold above which values in the data should be disconnected.
Show points	Set whether to show data points to lines or bars.
Show values	Set whether to show data point values above the lines or bars.
Point size	Set the size of the points, from 1 to 40 pixels in diameter.
Stack series	Set whether Grafana displays series on top of each other.
Bar alignment	Set the position of the bar relative to a data point.
Bar width factor	Set the width of the bar relative to minimum space between data points. A factor of 0.5 means that the bars take up half of the available space between data points. A factor of 1.0 means that the bars take up all available space.

Style

Choose whether to display your time-series data as Lines, Bars, or Points. You can use overrides to combine multiple styles in the same graph. Choose from the following:

Line interpolation

Choose how the graph interpolates the series line:

Linear - Points are joined by straight lines.
Smooth - Points are joined by curved lines that smooths transitions between points.
Step before - The line is displayed as steps between points. Points are rendered at the end of the step.
Step after - The line is displayed as steps between points. Points are rendered at the beginning of the step.

Gradient mode

Choose a gradient mode to control the gradient fill, which is based on the series color. To change the color, use the standard color scheme field option. For more information, refer to Color scheme.

None - No gradient fill. This is the default setting.
Opacity - An opacity gradient where the opacity of the fill increases as y-axis values increase.
Hue - A subtle gradient that’s based on the hue of the series color.
Scheme - A color gradient defined by your Color scheme. This setting is used for the fill area and line. For more information about scheme, refer to Scheme gradient mode.

Gradient appearance is influenced by the Fill opacity setting. The following image shows the Fill opacity set to 50.

Scheme gradient mode

In Scheme gradient mode, the line or bar receives a gradient color defined from the selected Color scheme option in the visualization’s Standard options.

The following image shows a line chart with the Green-Yellow-Red (by value) color scheme option selected:

If the Color scheme is set to From thresholds (by value) and Gradient mode is set to Scheme, then the line or bar color changes as it crosses the defined thresholds:

Line style

Choose a solid, dashed, or dotted line style:

Solid - Display a solid line. This is the default setting.
Dash - Display a dashed line. When you choose this option, a list appears for you to select the length and gap (length, gap) for the line dashes. Dash spacing is 10, 10 by default.
Dots - Display dotted lines. When you choose this option, a list appears for you to select the gap (length = 0, gap) for the dot spacing. Dot spacing is 0, 10 by default.

Connect null values

Never - Time series data points with gaps in the data are never connected.
Always - Time series data points with gaps in the data are always connected.
Threshold - Specify a threshold above which gaps in the data are no longer connected. This can be useful when the connected gaps in the data are of a known size and/or within a known range, and gaps outside this range should no longer be connected.

Disconnect values

Choose whether to set a threshold above which values in the data should be disconnected.

Never - Time series data points in the data are never disconnected.
Threshold - Specify a threshold above which values in the data are disconnected. This can be useful when desired values in the data are of a known size and/or within a known range, and values outside this range should no longer be connected.

To change the color, use the standard color scheme field option.

Show points

Set whether to show data points as lines or bars. Choose from the following:

Auto - Grafana determines a point’s visibility based on the density of the data. If the density is low, then points appear.
Always - Show the points regardless of how dense the dataset is.
Never - Don’t show points.

Stack series

Off - Turns off series stacking. When Off, all series share the same space in the visualization.
Normal - Stacks series on top of each other.
100% - Stack by percentage where all series add up to 100%.

Stack series in groups

The stacking group option is only available as an override. For more information about creating an override, refer to Configure field overrides.

Edit the panel and click Overrides.
Create a field override for the Stack series option.
In stacking mode, click Normal.
Name the stacking group in which you want the series to appear.

The stacking group name option is only available when you create an override.

Bar alignment

Before The bar is drawn before the point. The point is placed on the trailing corner of the bar.
Center The bar is drawn around the point. The point is placed in the center of the bar. This is the default.
After The bar is drawn after the point. The point is placed on the leading corner of the bar.

Axis options

Option	Description
Placement	Select the placement of the y-axis. Choose from: Auto, Left, Right, and Hidden.
Label	Set a y-axis text label. If you have more than one y-axis, then you can assign different labels using an override.
Width	Set a fixed width for the axis. By default, Grafana dynamically calculates the width of an axis.
Show grid lines	Set the axis grid line visibility. Choose from: Auto, On, and Off.
Color	Set the color of the axis. Choose from: Text - Uses panel text color. Series - Uses the colors of the series.
Show border	Set the axis border visibility.
Scale	Set the y-axis values scale. Choose from: Linear, Logarithmic, and Symlog.
Centered zero	Set the y-axis so it’s centered on zero. Applies to the Linear or Symlog scale options.
Soft min	Set a soft min to better control the y-axis limits.
Soft max	Set a soft max to better control the y-axis limits.

Placement

Select the placement of the y-axis. Choose from the following:

Auto - Automatically assigns the y-axis to the series. When there are two or more series with different units, Grafana assigns the left axis to the first unit and the right axis to the units that follow.
Left - Display all y-axes on the left side.
Right - Display all y-axes on the right side.
Hidden - Hide all axes. To selectively hide axes, Add a field override that targets specific fields.

Scale

Set the y-axis values scale. Choose from:

Linear - Divides the scale into equal parts.
Logarithmic - Use a logarithmic scale. If you select this option, in the Log base list, choose a binary (base 2) or common (base 10) logarithmic scale.
Symlog - Use a symmetrical logarithmic scale. If you select this option, choose also:
- Log base - Select a binary (base 2) or common (base 10) logarithmic scale.
- Linear threshold - Set the threshold at which the scale changes from linear to logarithmic.

Soft min and soft max

Set a Soft min or soft max option for better control of y-axis limits. By default, Grafana sets the range for the y-axis automatically based on the dataset.

Standard options

Option	Description
Unit	Choose which unit a field should use.
Min/Max	Set the minimum and maximum values used in percentage threshold calculations or leave these field empty for them to be calculated automatically.
Field min/max	Enable Field min/max to have Grafana calculate the min or max of each field individually, based on the minimum or maximum value of the field.
Decimals	Specify the number of decimals Grafana includes in the rendered value.
Display name	Set the display title of all fields. You can use variables in the field title.
Color scheme	Set single or multiple colors for your entire visualization.
No value	Enter what Grafana should display if the field value is empty or null. The default value is a hyphen (-).

To learn more, refer to Configure standard options.

Data links and actions

For each data link, set the following options:

Title
URL
Open in new tab
One click - Opens the data link with a single click. Only one data link can have One click enabled at a time.

For each action, define the following API call settings:

Option	Description
Title	A human-readable label for the action that’s displayed in the UI.
Confirmation message	A descriptive prompt to confirm or cancel the action.
Method	Select from POST, PUT, or GET.
URL	The request URL. To add a variable, click in the URL field and enter `$` or press Ctrl+Space or Cmd+Space to see a list of available variables.
Variables	Key and Name pairs with a type selection. Click the + icon to add as many variables as you need. To add a variable to the request, prefix the key with `$`. You can set the values for the variables when performing an action.
Query parameters	Key and Value pairs. Click the + icon to add as many key/value pairs as you need.
Headers	Comprised of Key and Value pairs and a Content-Type. Click the + icon to add as many key/value pairs as you need.
Content-Type	Select from the following: application/json, text/plain, application/XML, and application/x-www-form-urlencoded.
Body	The body of the request.

To learn more, refer to Configure data links and actions.

Value mappings

Value mapping is a technique you can use to change how data appears in a visualization.

For each value mapping, set the following options:

Condition - Choose what’s mapped to the display text and (optionally) color:
- Value - Specific values
- Range - Numerical ranges
- Regex - Regular expressions
- Special - Special values like Null, NaN (not a number), or boolean values like true and false
Display text
Color (Optional)
Icon (Canvas only)

To learn more, refer to Configure value mappings.

Thresholds

For each threshold, set the following options:

Option	Description
Value	Set the value for each threshold.
Thresholds mode	Choose from Absolute and Percentage.
Show thresholds	Choose from a variety of display options including not displaying thresholds at all.

To learn more, refer to Configure thresholds.

Field overrides

Choose from the following override options:

Option	Description
Fields with name	Select a field from the list of all available fields.
Field with name matching regex	Specify fields to override with a regular expression.
Fields with type	Select fields by type, such as string, numeric, or time.
Fields returned by query	Select all fields returned by a specific query, such as A, B, or C.
Fields with values	Select all fields returned by your defined reducer condition, such as Min, Max, Count, Total.

To learn more, refer to Configure field overrides.

XY chart

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XY chart

XY charts provide a way to visualize arbitrary x and y values in a graph so that you can easily show the relationship between two variables. XY charts are typically used to create scatter plots. You can also use them to create bubble charts where field values determine the size of each bubble:

Supported data formats

You can use any type of tabular data with at least two numeric fields in an xy chart. The x field can be a time field. This type of visualization doesn’t require time data, but it can be used.

Configuration options

The following section describes the configuration options available in the panel editor pane for this visualization. These options are, as much as possible, ordered as they appear in Grafana.

Panel options

In the Panel options section of the panel editor pane, set basic options like panel title and description, as well as panel links. To learn more, refer to Configure panel options.

XY Chart options

The following options let you control how data is displayed in an xy chart:

Option	Description
Series mapping	Set how series data is mapped in the chart. Choose from: Auto and Manual. Depending on your series mapping selection, the Frame, X-field, and Y-field options differ. For information on setting these specific fields, refer to the Series mapping section.
Size field	Set which field’s values control the size of the points in the chart. This value is relative to the min and max of all the values in the data frame. When you select this option, you can then set the Min point size and Max point size options. Required in Manual mode.
Color field	Set which field’s values control the color of the points in the chart. To use the color value options under the Standard options, you must set this field. Typically, this field is used when you only have one series displayed in the chart. Required in Manual mode. Only supports `number` fields.
Show	Set how values are represented in the visualization. Choose from: Points, Lines, or Both.
Point size	Set the size of all points in the chart, from one to one hundred pixels in diameter. The default size is five pixels. You can set an override to set the pixel size by series (y-field).
Min/Max point size	Use these options to control the minimum or maximum point size when you’ve set the Size field option. You can override these options for specific series.
Point shape	Set the shape of the points in the chart. Choose from: Circle - The default setting Square
Point stroke width	The width of the point stroke in pixels. The default is one pixel.
Fill opacity	The opacity of the point fill. The default is 50.
Line style	Set the style of the lines that connect points. Choose from: Solid, Dash, or Dots.
Line width	The width of the lines that connect points, in pixels.

Series mapping

Set how series data is mapped in the chart. Choose from:

Auto - Automatically generates series from all available data frames (or datasets). You can filter to select only one frame.
Manual - Explicitly define the series by selecting from available data frames.

Depending on your series mapping selection, the Frame, X-field, and Y-field options differ. These options are described in the tabs that follow:

Auto series mapping options

Manual series mapping options

When you select Auto as your series mapping mode, the following options are preconfigured, but you can also define them yourself:

Option	Description
Frame	By default, an xy chart displays all data frames. You can filter to select only one frame.
X field	Select which field or fields x represents. By default, this is the first number or time field in each data frame. For an example of this in Auto mode, refer to the X field section.
Y field	After the x-field is set, by default, all the remaining number fields in the data frame are designated as the y-fields. You can use this option to explicitly choose which fields to use for y. For more information on how to use this in Auto mode, refer to the Y field section.

When you select Manual as your series mode, you can add, edit, and delete series. To manage a series, click the Series field; to rename the series, click the series name.

In Manual mode, these fields are required:

Option	Description
Frame	Select your data frame or dataset. You can add as many frames as you want.
X field	Select which field x represents.
Y field	Select which field y represents.

X field

In Auto series mapping mode, select which field or fields x represents. By default, this is the first number or time field in each data frame. For example, you enter the following CSV content:

a	b	c
0	0	0
1	1	9
2	2	4

In the resulting chart, the x-field is generated from the values in column “a” unless you define it differently.

Y field

In Auto series mapping mode, after the x-field is set, by default, all the remaining number fields in the data frame are designated as the y-fields. You can use this option to explicitly choose which fields to use for y.

The series of the chart are generated from the y-fields. To make changes to a series in an xy chart, make overrides to the y-field.

Note
Any field you use in the Size field or Color field doesn’t generate a series.

You can also use overrides to exclude y-fields individually. To do so, add an override with the following properties for each y-field you want removed:

Override type: Fields with name
Override property: Series > Hide in area
Area: Viz

Show

Set how values are represented in the visualization. Choose from:

Points - Display values as points. When you select this option, the Point size option is also displayed.
Lines - Add a line between values. When you select this option, the Line style and Line width options are also displayed.
Both - Display both points and lines.

Line style

Set the style of the lines that connect points. To change the color, use the standard Color scheme field option.

Solid - Display a solid line. This is the default setting.
Dash - Display a dashed line. When you choose this option, a drop-down list is displayed where you can select the length and gap setting for the line dashes. By default, the length and gap are set to 10, 10.
Dots - Display dotted lines. When you choose this option, a drop-down list is displayed where you can select dot spacing. By default, the dot spacing is set to 0, 10 (the first number represents dot length, which is always zero).

Tooltip options

Tooltip options control the information overlay that appears when you hover over data points in the visualization.

Option	Description
Tooltip mode	When you hover your cursor over the visualization, Grafana can display tooltips. Choose how they behave: Single - The hover tooltip shows only a single series, the one that you are hovering over on the visualization. Hidden - Do not display the tooltip when you interact with the visualization.
Max width	Set the maximum width of the tooltip box.

Legend options

Legend options control the series names and statistics that appear under or to the right of the graph. For more information about the legend, refer to Configure a legend.

Option	Description
Visibility	Toggle the switch to turn the legend on or off.
Mode	Use these settings to define how the legend appears in your visualization. List displays the legend as a list. This is a default display mode of the legend. Table displays the legend as a table.
Placement	Choose where to display the legend. Bottom places the legend below the graph. Right places the legend to the right of the graph.
Width	Control how wide the legend is when placed on the right side of the visualization. This option is only displayed if you set the legend placement to Right.
Limit	Limit how many series items are shown by default. The rest become expandable using a Show all link.
Values	Choose which of the standard calculations to show in the legend. You can have more than one.

Axis options

Option	Description
Placement	Select the placement of the y-axis. Choose from: Auto, Left, Right, and Hidden.
Label	Set a y-axis text label. If you have more than one y-axis, then you can assign different labels using an override.
Width	Set a fixed width for the axis. By default, Grafana dynamically calculates the width of an axis.
Show grid lines	Set the axis grid line visibility. Choose from: Auto, On, and Off.
Color	Set the color of the axis. Choose from: Text - Uses panel text color. Series - Uses the colors of the series.
Show border	Set the axis border visibility.
Scale	Set the y-axis values scale. Choose from: Linear, Logarithmic, and Symlog.
Centered zero	Set the y-axis so it’s centered on zero. Applies to the Linear or Symlog scale options.
Soft min	Set a soft min to better control the y-axis limits.
Soft max	Set a soft max to better control the y-axis limits.

Placement

Select the placement of the y-axis. Choose from the following:

Auto - Automatically assigns the y-axis to the series. When there are two or more series with different units, Grafana assigns the left axis to the first unit and the right axis to the units that follow.
Left - Display all y-axes on the left side.
Right - Display all y-axes on the right side.
Hidden - Hide all axes. To selectively hide axes, Add a field override that targets specific fields.

Scale

Set the y-axis values scale. Choose from:

Linear - Divides the scale into equal parts.
Logarithmic - Use a logarithmic scale. If you select this option, in the Log base list, choose a binary (base 2) or common (base 10) logarithmic scale.
Symlog - Use a symmetrical logarithmic scale. If you select this option, choose also:
- Log base - Select a binary (base 2) or common (base 10) logarithmic scale.
- Linear threshold - Set the threshold at which the scale changes from linear to logarithmic.

Soft min and soft max

Set a Soft min or soft max option for better control of y-axis limits. By default, Grafana sets the range for the y-axis automatically based on the dataset.

Standard options

You can customize the following standard options:

Field min/max - Enable Field min/max to have Grafana calculate the min or max of each field individually, based on the minimum or maximum value of the field.
Color scheme - Set single or multiple colors for your entire visualization. To learn more about color schemes, refer to Configure standard options.

Data links and actions

For each data link, set the following options:

Title
URL
Open in new tab
One click - Opens the data link with a single click. Only one data link can have One click enabled at a time.

For each action, define the following API call settings:

Option	Description
Title	A human-readable label for the action that’s displayed in the UI.
Confirmation message	A descriptive prompt to confirm or cancel the action.
Method	Select from POST, PUT, or GET.
URL	The request URL. To add a variable, click in the URL field and enter `$` or press Ctrl+Space or Cmd+Space to see a list of available variables.
Variables	Key and Name pairs with a type selection. Click the + icon to add as many variables as you need. To add a variable to the request, prefix the key with `$`. You can set the values for the variables when performing an action.
Query parameters	Key and Value pairs. Click the + icon to add as many key/value pairs as you need.
Headers	Comprised of Key and Value pairs and a Content-Type. Click the + icon to add as many key/value pairs as you need.
Content-Type	Select from the following: application/json, text/plain, application/XML, and application/x-www-form-urlencoded.
Body	The body of the request.

To learn more, refer to Configure data links and actions.

Value mappings

Value mapping is a technique you can use to change how data appears in a visualization.

For each value mapping, set the following options:

Condition - Choose what’s mapped to the display text and (optionally) color:
- Value - Specific values
- Range - Numerical ranges
- Regex - Regular expressions
- Special - Special values like Null, NaN (not a number), or boolean values like true and false
Display text
Color (Optional)
Icon (Canvas only)

To learn more, refer to Configure value mappings.

Thresholds

For each threshold, set the following options:

Option	Description
Value	Set the value for each threshold.
Thresholds mode	Choose from Absolute and Percentage.

To learn more, refer to Configure thresholds.

Field overrides

Choose from the following override options:

Option	Description
Fields with name	Select a field from the list of all available fields.
Field with name matching regex	Specify fields to override with a regular expression.
Fields with type	Select fields by type, such as string, numeric, or time.
Fields returned by query	Select all fields returned by a specific query, such as A, B, or C.
Fields with values	Select all fields returned by your defined reducer condition, such as Min, Max, Count, Total.

To learn more, refer to Configure field overrides.

Visualizations on Grafana Labs

Time series

Time series

Configure a time series visualization

Supported data formats

Example 1

Example 2

Query1

Query2

Example 3

Query1

Query2

Alert rules

Special overrides

Transform override property

Fill below to override property

Multiple y-axes

Pan and zoom panel time range

Configuration options

Panel options

Tooltip options

Tooltip mode

Values sort order

Hover proximity

Legend options

Axis options

Placement

Scale

Soft min and soft max

Annotation options

Graph styles options

Style

Line interpolation

Gradient mode

Scheme gradient mode

Line style

Connect null values

Disconnect values

Show points

Stack series

Stack series in groups

Bar alignment

Standard options

Data links and actions

Value mappings

Thresholds

Field overrides

Alert list

Alert list

Configure an alert list

Configuration options

Panel options

Options

Sort order

Filter options

Alert state filter options

Annotations list

Annotations list

Configuration options

Panel options

Annotation query options

Query filter

Time Range

Display options

Link behavior options

Bar chart

Bar chart

Configure a bar chart

Supported data formats

Example 1

Example 2

Apply filters from the bar chart

Configuration options

Panel options

Bar chart options

Gradient mode

Tooltip options

Tooltip mode

Values sort order

Legend options