Hourly heatmap

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Hourly Heatmap for Grafana

Maintenance

Important: As of July 2022, I'm no longer actively maintaining this plugin. At the time of writing, I'm not aware of any replacement panel.

A panel plugin for Grafana to visualize hourly heatmaps.

An hourly heatmap aggregates data into buckets by day and hour to analyze activity or traffic during the day.

Screenshot

Motivation

The carpet-plot panel plugin is one of the most used plugins for Grafana. Unfortunately, it's no longer being actively maintained.

Grafana 7.0 introduced a new plugin architecture based on React. Instead of migrating the original plugin from Angular, this is completely rewritten from scratch, using inspiration from the original plugin.

Configuration

This section lists the available configuration options for the JSON API data source.

Panel options

Dimensions

Option	Description
Time	Name of the field to use for time. Defaults to the first time field.
Value	Name of the field to use for value. Defaults to the first number field.

Display

Option	Description
Show cell border	Toggles a cell border to make it easier to distinguish cells with similar values
Show tooltip	Toggles the tooltip. Due to the current tooltip implementation, this severely impacts performance and I recommend that you disable this for large time intervals. For more information, refer to #12.
From and To	Lets you choose the hours to display. This can be used to set working hours, or to filter parts of the day with low traffic

Legend

Option	Description
Show legend	Toggles the color spectrum
Show value indicator	Toggles an indicator that shows the current value in the legend
Gradient quality	Determines the quality of the color spectrum. Higher quality means more SVG elements being drawn. Reduce the quality if you experience degraded performance.

Field options

Option	Description
Group by	Size of each bucket
Calculation	Calculation to use for reducing data within a bucket
Color palette	Colors to use for the heatmap. Select from any of the predefined color palettes, or select Custom to create your own. Select Field options to use the colors from the built-in Color scheme field option
Invert color palette	Inverts the currently selected color palette
Null value color	Color to display when a bucket contains no data as opposed to a data value of 0.

Troubleshooting

Missing data

By default, data sources limits the number of data points to the width of the panel in pixels. If you're visualizing data over a long time, then you may need to adjust the Max data points under Query options in the query editor.

Missing data