Hi there, I have to admit I’m rather new to Grafana. I’ve tried to google my problem but probably just didn’t find the right phrase to get a solution… I have a query that returns three columns. Date, Budget, Documented. SELECT $__timeGroupAlias(date,$__interval), sum(time_budget) AS "Budget",…

Using the Bar Graph visualization, you can select Stacking >> Off [image] BTW, here is what Stacking >> Normal looks like: [image]

Thanks for your reply! My problem is, that stacking is actually turned off. Your first graphic is the way I’d like to have it. But for whatever reason (absolutely newbie here…) it doesn’t work/look that way. [image] [image] Could it be an error in my query resulting it being displayed that way…

What version of Grafana are you using? Do you want your x-axis to always be in Months?

Yes, Grafana 8 introduced some improvements regarding bar graphs. Once you have that set up, search the forums for how to group your data by month (there are several posts on that topic).

Let my IT department update Grafana to 8.2.5 did the trick :slight_smile: More or less… I can finally do the bars side by side, but I need transform the datetime to a string. Which results in the labels being unreadable as they are only numbers now. If I don’t do that transformation I end up with t…

Hi @grml Check out this answer by @ewelch . The last step you are missing is a simple Override.

I am facing the same problem in Grafana Cloud. I have 2 series and they are not becoming side-by-side. Any help?

Graph bars side by side rather than above each other

Grafana Time Series Panel

grml November 22, 2021, 10:55am 5

I just noticed my IT department provided me with Grafana 7.5.2. Might that be the reason? Simply too old?

X should be months, yes. Basically what I did with Redash (second screenshot in my initial post).

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Graph bars side by side rather than above each other

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