Can I write a story in text, that references vaIues I have queried? That would best visualise my data

Grafana Time Series Panel
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We have a well function Grafana Cloud based system in our business, with our goals often to demonstrate to clients what’s going on using mostly the Graph panel.

For a more curious case, I’m trying to figure out the best way to convey how things are calculated, what’s measured, aggregated, etc.

After flowcharting a few different things, I’ve come to the conclusion that literally writing out a narrative, a description, using text and queried variables.

How do I best achieve this?

I’m quite new so maybe this is rudimentary, but I’d love to just write out: "As A goes to B, we are watching “var” and summing it with “var2”, this gives us “var3” over a period of “time”.

I think it’s the healthiest way to display the data, the flowsheets are confusing as they feed back and the like.

Thanks for your input.

I’m using Grafana 6.

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That’s an interesting approach! You could try the following:

  1. Create a set of template variables that are based on the queries you want to execute - i.e. have the values you’d like to display in your text. These variables can be set to hidden.
  2. Create a text panel, and use the variables in your text. Their values should be substituted when the text is displayed.