Is Grafana supports non time series graphs ,if yes can we plot a graph using numeric and non numeric values in different axis

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Hi ,

We are recently using Grafana tool to provide graph’s on our Proactive monitor system. Can we plot a graph using grafana mixture of numeric values on y axis and string values on x-axies. X-axis contains our facilities names and y-axis contains offline rooms in particular facility count {numeric} and second y axis contains total rooms .

So far some extent i can use of plotly graph but in plotly graph i am not able to include second y axis as mentioned below.

with the below mentioned data model i tried Histogram,plotly and regular graph not much success to plot a graph using below data model.

DataSource - rest API {using simple json plugin }
Data Model:
{
x axis - xyz facility Name
yaxis - 7 offline rooms
y axis - 17 total rooms
},
{
x axis - zzz facility Name
yaxis - 4 offline rooms
y axis - 10 total rooms
}

  • What Grafana version are you using?
    Grafana v4.2.0
  • What datasource are you using?
    simple json
  • What OS are you running grafana on?
    windows 7
  • What did you do?
    trying to plot a graph using numeric and non numeric values
  • What was the expected result?
    Able to plot a graph showing non time series values
  • What happened instead?
    getting tostring errors when using histogram and regular graph panels .Some extent we are make use plotly panel but it is not supporting second y axis.

Thanks,

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Grafana is mainly for time series. Table panels supports json docs & table format. But for Graph panel your data source must return time series

3

Hi torkel,

Thank you very much for your valuable information and we will try using Table panels to represent our data model.

Thanks

4

Is there any plan to include this in future. We need to plot graphs for non time series data with mysql datasource

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