Color that depending on particular threshold

[mikhailov]

I'm interested is that possible to change a color for the same metric? Sometime it can be very useful to take a brief look across ten-ish graphs on big screen to detect some kind of anomaly. Say, you have green-color CPU metric (comes through collectd) with 60% as a treshold. Once it goes beyoud it becomes red. What you think?

[torkelo]

@mikhailov interesting idea. Been thinking about different ways to visualize threshold violations. This is a good addition. Other ideas are to change graph panel border, or background.

[mikhailov]

@torkelo yes, graph panel border or backround are both excellent UX ideas! Let me say Thank you! for Grafana, this is the best Graphite dashboard ever ;)

[torkelo]

@mikhailov thank you!

[lyrixx]

First: I totally agree, grafana is the BEST GRAPHITE DASHOBARD EVER ;) Sorry for capslock, But i really think it. You did/do a very good job.

Then I'm very interested with the background color linked to a metric. It's a very good feature when you display the dashboard on a TV.

[mikhailov]

Grafana is the best, best, best!!!

[torkelo]

Thanks!

[savingschampion]

Are you guys working on this at all? it looks like the underlying graphing tool you use can already do this natively. http://www.flotcharts.org/flot/examples/threshold/index.html

[torkelo]

@savingschampion no we are not working on it. That plugin is solving the issue in a hackish way (splitting the series into multiple series with different colors, which will cause issues with other features in grafana, like hover), but it is possible I think.

As we get further along with our work on alerting we might look at this as well. Or if this gets many +1 votes :)

[savingschampion]

That's a shame, graph colouring based upon value is a big thing we'd like for our business alerting.

[srhopkins]

+1 very useful feature for me.

[timgriffiths]

+1 we would like to see this too

[maberle]

+1 for me

[Lahorde]

+1

[gealtrag]

+1

[meenakshi-panda]

+1

[infradom]

+1 (background color based on threshold)

[nitlev]

+1

[cattt84]

+1

[pimeys]

+1

[Tittan31]

+1 iam trying to find exactly this feature. Changing the graph color based on actual value...any progress expected? Is there any way do this? Thank you man, i love grafana :-)

[mayt]

+1

[sata]

+1

[marian-93]

+1
of course it would be good enhancement to make graphs look like that:

[lexmag]

Rather than +1 in comments it's way better to react 👍 under initial comment.
There are many people who have subscribed to this issue to get a notification when it will be closed (hopefully implemented), and those +1 only create unnecessary noise for everyone.

[artemale]

+1

We need to highlight crossing of the threshold the same way as alerting is done, but without any notification. Monitoring person shall see red flashing background ideally to attract the attention. We find this feature as very-very valuable.

Any plans to add this to grafana? Does not seem to be very huge effort.

[Aleksey-Maksimov]

+1

[thuck]

@daniellee is the #1365 a duplication of this one? Looks like they have similar objectives, or maybe I'm missing something.

[artemale]

1365 is about single stat probably, while this one is for graph, but you are right, objectives are the same.

[Xaelias]

I understand it's probably not obvious to make happen. But it's been 3 years and a half :-/

[tg12]

Even I want this now!

[stale]

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[torkelo]

Sorry, stale bot was wrongly configured (should only have acted on PRs)

[Melhorio]

+1 I work with equipment related issues utilizing Grafana for equipment variable trending (temperatures, pressures, current, power etc.) . I have to agree that this feature would help to pin point equipment issues. Also selecting the trend line color on normal area s grayish, warning area to dark yellow and on alarm area as bright red or orange (as an example) can make the trends pop out highlighting the problem areas fast in the case where there are tens of trends on the dashboards at any given time.

[arensp]

+1

[dprokop]

Think this should be now possible with #35910 in Grafana 8.1.