Grafana alerts using JSON data

[anupshirolkar]

I am using the Infinity plugin to pull JSON data from a URL. I want to configure alerts if the data exceeds a certain threshold. However, when I configure an alert, I get the error -

[sse.readDataError] [A] got error: input data must be a wide series but got type not (input refid)

I have used parsing options and the result of the same query on a table panel looks like this -

What exactly is the ‘wide series’ format, and why does not my data fit in it? How can I transform the data to model it as a wide series?

[dawiddebowski]

In Infinity plugin everything is string by default. You have to toggle the Parsing options & Result fields and format the columns like:

So you’ll have at least one field of Time type and one field of Number type.
Worked for me and hope it’ll work for you