Hi,
setting my first steps in grafana, so sorry for my ignorance.
My first graph: power modulation of my boiler.
If you take a look at the green curve:
the points are connected directly with straight lines.
However, I want a graph were the last value is “maintained” until a next value appears. So this would be a horizontal line, to the next point on the x-axis
I draw this manually with the thick red line.
Is this possible with grafana?
kind regards,
Bart
It is not possible to tell Grafana to insert points of its own.
As you can see, you can get Grafana to join one point to the next using a
straight line, but only once that “next point” exists.
Grafana will not guess what the next value is going to be - it waits until it
knows what it is, and then joins it to the previous one.
After all, suppose you had the values 3, 3, 4, 5, 6, 5, 5, 4
What do you think Grafana should guess is the next value in the series?
Simple answer: it can’t, so until it knows whether the next number is 3, 4, 5
or whatever, it can’t do anything and doesn’t draw a line.
Regards,
Antony.
Hi @pooh,
Grafana does not have to guess the values,
It just like excel can interpret these data.
In your example this would become (1):
Connecting the points by a linear regression (2) is also an assumption, just like connecting them by a horizontal line (1). Both are legal assumptions. What I want is just a simple bar graph (1) instead of line graph (2)
It’s just a basic interpretation of numbers. It would be nice that grafana would have this capability too…
regards,
B
