Plot top-X from dynamic set of series

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I have a series with a few hundred different tag values in Influxdb. How would I tell Grafana to plot the top-3 only? Where top could be calculated on the last sample.

I can find the top() values, but only for a single time value, like this:

select top(value, 3), tld from (select last(value) as value, tld from tld_counter group by tld)

X-posted at https://community.influxdata.com/t/using-top-to-fetch-data-over-time/925

2

Unlike some other time series databases, InfluxDB does not support series filter (that I know of). So you will have to wait for InfluxDB to implement this

3

And by series filter i mean sorting series list based on criteria and only taking top x

4

Is it possible to use slimit and order by to get the top-3? LIMIT and SLIMIT were added in the recent v4.3.0 beta.

5

Indeed InfluxDB does not sort on anything but time (in that case I believe SLIMIT would do what we’re looking for).
But today, top() does the trick anyway. I have a point for each user every interval, like

usage,user=xyz cpu=99,mem=99

An InfluxDB query does that with

select top(cpu,3),user from usage where time > now() - 30m

But I can’t see how to convince Grafana to use the user from the fields rather than from multiple result sets like you get with GROUP BY.

Rob

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InfluxDB query language does not support this :frowning: