Trying to migrate old SingleStat panel to new instalation

Hi, I have an old Grafana server on which I have a few dashboards configured which use the SingleStat panel. I need to migrate this configuration over to a new Grafana server, running the latest version. However, the SingleStat panel no longer exists.

The old SingleStat panels display a single figure with some text. The text is broken over a couple of lines. Think ‘53 Days’ with the text ‘with no accidents’ just underneath. The background of the panel changes from red to green based on the data. A higher value is better and displays green after a certain point. This was achived using the ‘Postfix’ option in the panel which allowed you to put both text and html (so you could put a br/ in the text)

The new Stat panel sort of replaces it. The only way I’ve found to display text is for my query to return a numeric value and a second column which is the text I want. I can then choose ‘text mode’ = ‘value and name’. However, this results in a very long text on a single line and places the text before the value, so I would have to do 'Days without accidents: ’ which would be followed by the value. Its not very flexible.

The Dynamic Text panel allows for a great deal of flexibility, but I can’t see any way to get it to colour the background based on a value so that my panel changes from green to orange to red. I can get it to generate a single colour background, but colouring the whole panel background is proving difficult.

Can anyone point me in the right direction of what I should be looking at?

@imurphy You are welcome to open an issue for the Dynamic text panel regarding the color, and we will look into it.

Well, its not an ‘issue’ because there isn’t an option to do this. Doing it in embedded html/javascript may be possible, but its a lot of work. I’ll see if theres an enhancement list somewhere so I can fill out a request. Seems odd that the old singlestat would have disappeared without there being a functional replacement.

@imurphy There is no difference between the Issue and the Feature Request from the GitHub point of view. It’s the same link and list: