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Published inJun 2020
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Eric Salituro
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Eric Salituro is currently a Software Engineering Manger with the Enterprise Data and Analytics Platform team at Zendesk. He has an IT career spanning over 30 years, over 20 of which were in the motion picture industry working as a pipeline technical director and software developer for innovative and creative studios like DreamWorks, Digital Domain, and Pixar. Before moving to Zendesk, he worked at Pixar helping to manage and maintain their production render farm as a Senior Software Developer. Among his accomplishments there was the development of a Python API toolkit for Grafana aimed at streamlining the creation of rendering metrics dashboards
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Understanding the time series data display

In this section, we are going to cover some important concepts surrounding time aggregation. In order to do that, we're going to craft a dashboard panel that illustrates those concepts. Along the way, we'll also be covering some of the more advanced drawing features of the graph panel.

The concepts are a bit technical, but understanding them is essential to mastering the depiction of time-based data in Grafana and other time series visualization tools:

  1. Start out by creating a new dashboard and selecting Add new panel.
  2. Set the time range to Last 24 hours.
  3. In the Query tab, click on the copy(two pages) icon to make a copy of the current query.
  4. Click the visibility (eye) icon for the B query to disable it. We'll set it in a moment.

We are going to modify the A query so that it singles in on a single data series – the one corresponding to the KSFO...

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Published in: Jun 2020Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781838826581

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Eric Salituro

Eric Salituro is currently a Software Engineering Manger with the Enterprise Data and Analytics Platform team at Zendesk. He has an IT career spanning over 30 years, over 20 of which were in the motion picture industry working as a pipeline technical director and software developer for innovative and creative studios like DreamWorks, Digital Domain, and Pixar. Before moving to Zendesk, he worked at Pixar helping to manage and maintain their production render farm as a Senior Software Developer. Among his accomplishments there was the development of a Python API toolkit for Grafana aimed at streamlining the creation of rendering metrics dashboards
Read more about Eric Salituro