Recently upgraded grafana and discovered state timeline, so I am replacing the old custom plugin I was using to achieve the same visualization. I found one issue though with this new functionality, I couldn’t find a way to REMOVE the metric name that shows at the right of the graph, so that the time…

I’ve found a solution. It is possible to use the ‘delete’ (16#7F) character: U+007F DELETE - Unicode Explorer U+007F DELETE, copy and paste, unicode character symbol info, Control Character Copy it and past it in the “Display name” property. [image]

State Timeline: how to NOT display the metric names

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grant2 October 11, 2021, 1:48am 2

I observed the same glitchy behavior and posted about it a few months ago. I also opened up a ticket with Grafana support but they could not offer a fix.

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State Timeline: how to NOT display the metric names

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