From the course: Prometheus and Grafana: Visualizing Application Performance
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The gauge panel
From the course: Prometheus and Grafana: Visualizing Application Performance
The gauge panel
- [Instructor] The gauge panel is another powerful, single-value visualization in Grafana. It allows you to quickly assess where values fall within defined ranges. The main utility of this panel is in the immediate visual feedback you get of where values stand relative to important thresholds. For example, you can indicate progress towards a goal or display system health. The simple gauge panel can display one or more individual ranges, depending on the structure of the data returned by the query. If the query used multiple series, rows, or columns containing numerical data, it will typically be represented by its own gauge. Like other panels, it also offers various options to control the display of the metrics value. To help with clarity, Grafana offers a variety of calculation options to determine the single value in a given timeframe. Another thing to know about gauges is that for single-value datasets containing just one metric, the gauge visualization defaults to an empty gauge…
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