# Variable behaving very weird

**URL:** <https://community.grafana.com/t/variable-behaving-very-weird/161113>\
**Category:** InfluxDB\
**Created:** [January 18, 2026, 8:53am UTC](https://community.grafana.com/t/variable-behaving-very-weird/161113 "2026-01-18T08:53:28Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![manish2659](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5f9b8f/32.png) [@manish2659](https://community.grafana.com/u/manish2659)\
**Post date:** [January 18, 2026, 8:53am UTC](https://community.grafana.com/t/variable-behaving-very-weird/161113/1 "2026-01-18T08:53:28Z")

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I have connected to Influxdb3 oss to my grafana dashboard and build a dashboard however i used one variable and now wanted to apply in where clause in one the panel . see blelow. query is simple however it does not show the result . funny thing is that , when i change the dropdown form variable it shows the result for a fraction of sec and then result vanished from the panel. any leads to solve this will help. i am using grfana latest pulled in docker container.

 ![Screenshot 2026-01-17 at 12.59.44 AM](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/grafana/original/3X/2/1/21ef14d72d1b5436404195407233125915d783a9.png)

 ![Screenshot 2026-01-17 at 12.56.50 AM](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/grafana/original/3X/7/3/7337ee6618d7c02ad67821d70f0fb57306b764e1.png)

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**Author:** ![grant2](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/grafana/user_avatar/community.grafana.com/grant2/32/42281_2.png) [@grant2](https://community.grafana.com/u/grant2)\
**Post date:** [April 9, 2026, 9:44am UTC](https://community.grafana.com/t/variable-behaving-very-weird/161113/2 "2026-04-09T09:44:16Z")

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@manish2659 Did you ever figure this out? What was (is) the Transformation you were using?