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Visualization panels

Grafana offers a variety of visualizations to support different use cases. This section of the documentation highlights the built-in panels, their options and typical usage.

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You can add more visualization types by installing panel panel plugins.

Examples

Below you can find some good examples for how all the visualizations in Grafana can be configured. You can also explore play.grafana.org which has a large set of demo dashboards that showcase all the different visualizations.

Graphs

For time based line, area and bar charts we recommend the default Time series visualization. This public demo dashboard contains many different examples for how this visualization can be configured and styled.

Time series
Time series

For categorical data use the Bar chart visualization.

Bar chart
Bar chart

Big numbers & stats

The Stat visualization shows one large stat value with an optional graph sparkline. You can control the background or value color using thresholds or color scales.

Stat panel
Stat panel

Gauge

If you want to present a value as it relates to a min and max value you have two options. First a standard Radial Gauge shown below.

Secondly Grafana also has a horizontal or vertical Bar gauge with three different distinct display modes.

Table

To show data in a table layout, use the Table visualization.

Table visualization
Table visualization

Pie chart

Grafana now ships with an included Pie chart visualization.

Pie chart visualization
Pie chart visualization

Heatmaps

To show value distribution over, time use the heatmap visualization.

Heatmap
Heatmap

State timeline

The state timeline panel visualization shows discrete state changes over time. When used with time series, the thresholds are used to turn the numerical values into discrete state regions.

state timeline with string states
state timeline with string states