# Network utilization graph

**URL:** <https://community.grafana.com/t/network-utilization-graph/12230>\
**Category:** Time Series Panel\
**Created:** [November 20, 2018, 8:39pm UTC](https://community.grafana.com/t/network-utilization-graph/12230 "2018-11-20T20:39:36Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![jjj](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/grafana/user_avatar/community.grafana.com/jjj/32/5317_2.png) [@jjj](https://community.grafana.com/u/jjj)\
**Post date:** [November 20, 2018, 8:39pm UTC](https://community.grafana.com/t/network-utilization-graph/12230/1 "2018-11-20T20:39:36Z")

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Hello,

I want to show the network utilization for a period and although the overall values are correct the way grafana is displaying the graph is quite misleading.

My data is every 5 minutes:

08:05 = NNN (bytes)  
08:10 = NNN  
so on…

This is my graph on Grafana, since there is no null values in my dataset I don’t know why the graph is showing up like that.

 ![network](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/grafana/original/2X/7/7f83970a7bb02e07f2847b3ae3345c2214e73616.png)

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**Author:** ![jjj](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/grafana/user_avatar/community.grafana.com/jjj/32/5317_2.png) [@jjj](https://community.grafana.com/u/jjj)\
**Post date:** [November 20, 2018, 9:02pm UTC](https://community.grafana.com/t/network-utilization-graph/12230/2 "2018-11-20T21:02:17Z")

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I got it working, by adding a metric the graph now shows the way I was expecting it to show.

 ![network_fix](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/grafana/original/2X/d/db2b154b343f37677b340df4a42c69d0831c5ede.png)