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Calendar Heatmap

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Calendar Heatmap Panel

Turn raw time-series data into an instantly readable, GitHub-style activity calendar. Calendar Heatmap Panel makes trends, spikes, and gaps obvious at a glance—perfect for dashboards built for action.


Visual showcase

Calendar Heatmap Panel light theme

Calendar Heatmap Panel dark theme

Calendar Heatmap Panel configuration

Why teams love it

  • GitHub-style calendar visualization makes activity patterns immediately obvious.
  • Eight color schemes (Green, Blue, Red, Yellow, Purple, Orange, Custom, Custom Gradient) to match your brand or dashboard theme.
  • Seven aggregation methods (Sum, Count, Average, Maximum, Minimum, First, Last) to capture the story behind your data.
  • Auto-sizing cells with theme-aware rendering for beautiful, responsive dashboards.
  • Interactive tooltips for fast, precise inspection of any day.
  • Fully customizable layout with control over cell size, spacing, labels, and legends.

Quick start

  1. Install Calendar Heatmap Panel from the Grafana plugin catalog (recommended), or via Grafana CLI (grafana-cli plugins install tim012432-calendarheatmap-panel).
  2. Add the panel to any dashboard with time-series data.
  3. Choose an aggregation method and color scheme.
  4. Adjust cell size, spacing, labels, and legend to match your layout.

You’ll have a calendar-style heatmap in minutes—no custom code required.

Common use cases

  • DevOps & SRE: visualize incident frequency, deploy cadence, and alert volume over time.
  • Data Analysts: reveal seasonal trends, usage spikes, or churn patterns day by day.
  • Business Users: highlight customer activity, revenue signals, or engagement streaks.
  • Operations: track daily throughput, compliance checks, or support load.

Configuration highlights

  • Color schemes: quickly switch between eight curated palettes (Green, Blue, Red, Yellow, Purple, Orange, Custom, Custom Gradient).
  • Aggregation: summarize values as Sum, Count, Average, Maximum, Minimum, First, or Last.
  • Layout controls: tune cell size, spacing, and corner radius.
  • Labels & legend: show week/month labels and legend for clarity.
  • Tooltips: give viewers precise daily values on hover.

For the full configuration reference, including all display, label, data, and interaction options, see the documentation on GitHub.

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Make your Grafana dashboards instantly understandable with a calendar heatmap designed for real-world operational insights.

Insights

  • Adoption

    Running on 819 active Grafana instances.

  • Activity

    Last updated 28 Aug 2026.

    4 releases in the past year.

Version
1.2.0
Dependencies
  • Grafana >=12.1.7 <12.2 || >=12.2.5
Developer
tim012432

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