Single value chart visualization
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Example
This example shows six different single-value tiles acting as on-dashboard alerts.
Single value options
Title
Use this field to add a title.
You can use emojis such as 😃 and 🌍 and ❤️.
You can use variables.
Example:
- Define variables called
StatusandEmojiin your dashboard. - Set Title to
Current $Emoji status is $Status. - Set
StatustoGood. - Set
Emojito🌍.
The title will be displayed as Current 🌍 status is Good.
Label
Turn on Show label and enter label text to display a custom label.
If you turn on Show label and don't provide text, Dynatrace displays the DQL result.
Autoscale
When Use value formatter is turned on (default), the value is automatically formatted.
Suffix
Defines a string that will be appended to the data.
Record field
Selects which record field to display in a single value tile.
Units and formats
To override the default units and formats in a dashboard or notebook visualization
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Select
to edit the visualization tile. -
Select the Visualize tab.
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Select Units and formats.
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Select Override.
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Select
Override -
In the dropdown list, select the item for which you want to add a unit override.
This is a numeric column of the underlying DQL result, so it varies according to the query. For example:
- A
fetch eventsquery returns events. The dropdown list here lets you select a numeric field (such astransfer_size) from the results. - A
timeseries avg(dt.host.cpu.usage)query returns a single timeseries foravg(dt.host.cpu.usage). That timeseries is then the only selectable option in the list.
- A
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Define the override.
- Default unit: The base unit in which the values were captured. It's
Noneif it was not included in the DQL result, or its automatically defined by the unit passed from the DQL result. This field doesn't lead to any conversion. - Displayed unit: Once you define a default unit, you can use Displayed unit for conversion. For example, if the DQL result defined your numeric value in the result as
Bytes, Displayed unit now offers a suitable list of byte conversions such asKilobyteandMegabyte. Unlike the Default unit, the Displayed unit is always a numeric conversion. - Decimals displays the default number of decimals (degree of precision) to display. To see it in action, change the Decimals selection and observe the change in the visualization.
- Suffix displays the suffix to display after the unit. To see it in action, enter a string and observe the change in the visualization. When you don't find the unit you're looking for, you can use Suffix to display the desired unit.
- Default unit: The base unit in which the values were captured. It's
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Turn on Abbreviate large numbers if you want to display large figures in abbreviated form. For example,
1053becomes1.1K.
To reset to defaults (discard override settings for the selected item), select the trash can 
next to the item.
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In Dashboards, create a dashboard.
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Select
and, in the Snippets section of the menu, select Metrics > Chart average CPU across all hosts. -
In the section edit panel, select the Visualize tab and select Line chart.
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Select Units and formats.
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Select
Override.
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In the dropdown list, select the metric for which you want to add an override. There's only one metric to select in this example.
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Define the override for the displayed metric. You can observe your changes in the Y-axis of the chart.
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Default unit displays
Percent (%), which is the default unit for the selected metric. Try a different setting, such asOneto instead display the result as a fraction of 1. -
Displayed unit displays
Auto. You can change it to a different unit, such asOneto instead display the result as a fraction of 1.Only linear and static conversions are supported. For example, you cannot convert
Degree Celsius(°C)intoDegree Fahrenheit(°F), or convertUsd(US$)intoEur(€). -
Decimals displays the default number of decimal points (degree of precision) to display. To see it in action, change the Decimals selection and observe the change in the visualization.
For example, change this:
To this:
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Suffix displays the optional suffix to display after the unit. To see it in action, enter a string and observe the change in the visualization.
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To reset to defaults (discard override settings for the selected metric), select the trash can next to the metric.
Thresholds
Configure thresholds
To configure thresholds in a dashboard or notebook visualization
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Select
to edit the visualization tile. -
Select Thresholds.
- In Dashboards, select the Visualize tab in the side panel, and then select Thresholds.
- In Notebooks, select Thresholds in the side panel.
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Select
Add threshold. -
Define the thresholds. For each range:
Select a color to display for that range
Select the operator to define the threshold for that range
Enter a static value to compare (using the selected operator) with the returned value
- Enter a label to associate with the defined range.
Labels apply only to charts with a Y axis, such as timeseries charts and the categorical bar chart.
Labels can't be defined for tables and the single value chart.
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In Dashboards, create a dashboard.
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Select
and, in the Snippets section of the menu, select Metrics > Chart top 10 hosts by CPU usage. -
In the section edit panel, select the Visualize tab and select Bar chart. (To simplify the examples, we hid the chart legend (see Legend in Bar chart options), but that makes no difference to thresholds.)
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Select Thresholds.
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Select
Add threshold.
An empty set of threshold fields is displayed.
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Define the thresholds for the displayed metric. You can observe your changes in the Y axis of the chart.
In this example, we define three ranges of CPU usage with corresponding colors and labels.
You can see the ranges displayed on the Y axis.
To reset to defaults (discard threshold settings), select the trash can next to the item.
Edit thresholds
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Select
to edit the visualization tile. -
Select Thresholds.
- In Dashboards, select the Visualize tab in the side panel, and then select Thresholds.
- In Notebooks, select Thresholds in the side panel.
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From this point, you can
To add thresholds (if the selected visualization supports additional thresholds), select Add threshold.
To turn off (hide) existing thresholds, use the switch. No settings are lost. You can turn them back on if you change your mind.
To delete existing thresholds, select the trash can
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To change existing threshold settings, just edit the fields.
To add a range to existing thresholds, select Add range.
To delete a range from existing thresholds, select the delete button in that row.
