Heatmap using Prometheus Histogram?

Grafana
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I’m loving the new Histogram panel, and it works beautifully with raw data from InfluxDB. I’m starting to look into the Prometheus Histogram datatype, and it seems this could be a good fit for the “pre-bucketed data” option in the Histogram panel.

I’m not sure how I can structure my Prometheus query to satisfy this requirement though:

> Each time series already represents a Y-Axis bucket. The time series name (alias) needs to be a numeric value representing the upper interval for the bucket. Grafana does no bucketing so the bucket size options are hidden.

Any suggestions?

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yea, it does not work with Prometheus yet

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Is the same true for the Heatmap?

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@hdost A lot has changed in the last 6 years since this was posted. Heatmap and histogram panels will work with Prometheus now. You can see How to visualize Prometheus histograms in Grafana | Grafana Labs or Histograms and heatmaps | Grafana documentation for more info.

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So interestingly enough i was actually using those, trying to build a basic panel to help an internal user, and despite my best efforts I always came out with something where the Heatmap showed the le buckets out of order. And for the histogram panel would show count or values rather than the actual histograms.