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Adding charts to dashboards

Let's now save our chart.


1. Save to existing dashboard

Check that you have YOUR_NAME-Dashboard: YOUR_NAME-Dashboard in the top right corner.

This means you chart will be saved in this Dashboard.

Name the Chart Latency History and add a Chart Description if you wish.

Save Chart 1

Click on Save And Close. This returns you to your dashboard that now has two charts!

Save Chart 2 Now let's quickly add another Chart based on the previous one.


2. Copy and Paste a chart

Click on the three dots ... on the Latency History chart in your dashboard and then on Copy.

Copy chart

You see the chart being copied, and you should now have a red circle with a white 1 next to the + on the top left of the page.

Click on the red one at the top of the page, and then in the menu on Paste Charts (There should also be a red dot with a 1 visible at the end of the line).

Past charts

This will place a copy of the previous chart in your dashboard.

Three Dashboard


3. Edit the pasted chart

Click on the three dots ... on on of the Latency History charts in your dashboard and then on Open (or you can click on the name of the chart which here is Latency History).

This will bring you to the editor environment again.

First set the time for the chart to -1 hour in the Time box at the top right of the chart. Then to make this a different chart, click on the eye icon in front of signal "A" to make it visible again, and then hide signal "C" via the eye icon and change the name for Latency history to Latency vs Load.

Set Visibility

Click on the Add Metric Or Event button. This will bring up the box for a new signal. Type and select demo.trans.count for Signal D.

Dashboard Info

This will add a new Signal D to your chart, It shows the number of active request active. Add the filter for the demo_datacenter:Paris then change the Rollup type by clicking on Delta Rollup (or clicking on the cog icon).

rollup change

When the visualisation pane opens, change the Rollup dropdown to Rollup:Rate/sec, then click into the name field in the top left hand corner and it to Latency vs load and press the Save And Close button. This returns you to your dashboard that now has three different charts!

three charts

Let's add an "instruction" note and arrange the charts!


Last update: May 26, 2021