Any way to use a variable name as the Y-axis max value?

Grafana Time Series Panel
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Hi.

I’m using https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/reference/share_panel/ to capture panel images once per hour over a month or so, and then animating them with mencoder to create a movie of the changes in that time.

For the standard Grafana panel, it’s good to have a dynamic value for the Y-axis max, so that you get as big a graph as will fit, with as much detail as possible.

For the movie, it would be good to have a fixed Y-axis, therefore it would be nice to be able to pass this value in as a variable name in the URL (same as one can for height, width, from and to), otherwise I need to define a new panel just for this purpose, with a fixed Y-axis.

So, any way of getting the Y-max value passed in via the URL?

If not yet, then feature request :slight_smile:

Thanks,

Antony.

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"In Grafana, you can usually achieve this by using the &var-variableName=value syntax in the URL. If you want to dynamically set the Y-axis max, you can try creating a custom variable that holds your desired max value and then reference it in the ‘Min/Max’ field of the panel settings as ${variableName}. This should allow the panel to scale as you pass different values through the URL for your animation.

I actually use similar dynamic URL structures to manage content categories on my platform, ](https://gettelelatino.com/). When dealing with large libraries like this, keeping the interface dynamic is key to helping users find free movies and web series easily. Using variables to control display parameters is definitely the way to go for automation!"