Bar Chart, fixed width bar possible ? Or dynamicall growing panel?

Consider these two horizontal bar charts attached …

  • the data will be dynamically generated from an API call

  • sometimes we get 2 “rows” , sometimes we get 50 rows …

  • from what I have seen from Grafana, it is asking me to put the bar-chart inside a panel,

  • and I have to give this panel a fixed width-and-height (as part of “dashboard design phase”)

  • this will result in weird looking bar charts … the bars can easily become too thin or too wide

  • two solutions could have solved this problem :

    • auto resizing panels (it knows how many rows/bars are to be visualized)

    • fixed width bars (and I just place the bar-chart inside a very big panel as the last row of the dashboard)

    • neither of the two above appear to exist in Grafana ? (I wish to be wrong on this)

    • the bar-chart is auto-resizing relative to the parent panel,

      • but the panel is not auto-resizing relative to the parent dashboard !!!
  • How are you trying to achieve it?

    • I looked at the config options and searched google and youtube, no luck.
  • What happened?

    • I am seeing horizontal bar charts that can have bars that are either too thin or too wide
  • What did you expect to happen?

    • Looking for a way to have fixed width horizontal bars
  • Can you copy/paste the configuration(s) that you are having problems with?

    • there is no configuration, i am using defaults
  • Did you receive any errors in the Grafana UI or in related logs? If so, please tell us exactly what they were.

    • no errors encountered
  • Did you follow any online instructions? If so, what is the URL?

    • I am unable to find instructions to set horizontal bar charts to fixed width