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The main panel in Grafana is simply named Graph. It provides a very rich set of graphing options.
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The general tab allows customization of a panel's appearance and menu options.
Repeat a panel for each value of a variable. Repeating panels are described in more detail here.
The metrics tab defines what series data and sources to render. Each data source provides different options.
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The Axes tab controls the display of axes.
The Left Y and Right Y can be customized using:
Axes can also be hidden by unchecking the appropriate box from Show.
Axis can be hidden by unchecking Show.
For Mode there are three options:
The default option is Time and means the x-axis represents time and that the data is grouped by time (for example, by hour or by minute).
The Series option means that the data is grouped by series and not by time. The y-axis still represents the value.
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The Histogram option converts the graph into a histogram. A Histogram is a kind of bar chart that groups numbers into ranges, often called buckets or bins. Taller bars show that more data falls in that range. Histograms and buckets are described in more detail here.
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Additional values can be shown along-side the legend names:
The legend values are calculated client side by Grafana and depend on what type of aggregation or point consolidation your metric query is using. All the above legend values cannot be correct at the same time. For example if you plot a rate like requests/second, this is probably using average as aggregator, then the Total in the legend will not represent the total number of requests. It is just the sum of all data points received by Grafana.
Hide series when all values of a series from a metric query are of a specific value:
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Display styles control visual properties of the graph.
If there are multiple series, they can be displayed as a group.
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The section allows a series to be rendered differently from the others. For example, one series can be given a thicker line width to make it stand out and/or be moved to the right Y-axis.
There is an option under Series overrides to draw lines as dashes. Set Dashes to the value True to override the line draw setting for a specific series.
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Thresholds allow you to add arbitrary lines or sections to the graph to make it easier to see when the graph crosses a particular threshold.
Only available in Grafana v5.4 and above.
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Time regions allow you to highlight certain time regions of the graph to make it easier to see for example weekends, business hours and/or off work hours.
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The time range tab allows you to override the dashboard time range and specify a panel specific time. Either through a relative from now time option or through a timeshift. Panel time overrides & timeshift are described in more detail here.
Only available in Grafana v6.3+.
Data link allows adding dynamic links to the visualization. Those links can link to either other dashboard or to an external URL.
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Data link is defined by title, url and a setting whether or not it should be opened in a new window.
Title is a human readable label for the link that will be displayed in the UI. The link itself is accessible in the graph's context menu when user clicks on a single data point:
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URL field allows the URL configuration for a given link. Apart from regular query params it also supports built-in variables and dashboard variables that you can choose from available suggestions:
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These variables changed in 6.4 so if you have an older version of Grafana please use the version picker to select docs for an older version of Grafana.
__url_time_range - current dashboard's time range (i.e. ?from=now-6h&to=now)
__from - current dashboard's time range from value
__to - current dashboard's time range to value
Series specific variables are available under __series namespace:
__series.name - series name to the URL
__series.labels.<LABEL> - label's value to the URL. If your label contains dots use __series.labels["<LABEL>"] syntax
Field specific variables are available under __field namespace:
__field.name - field name to the URL
Value specific variables are available under __value namespace:
__value.time - value's timestamp (Unix ms epoch) to the URL (i.e. ?time=1560268814105)
__value.raw - raw value
__value.numeric - numeric representation of a value
__value.text - text representation of a value
__value.calc - calculation name if the value is result of calculation
When linking to another dashboard that uses template variables, you can use var-myvar=${myvar} syntax (where myvar is a name of template variable)
to use current dashboard's variable value. If you want to add all of the current dashboard's variables to the URL use __all_variables variable.