From the course: Prometheus and Grafana: Visualizing Application Performance
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The heatmap panel
From the course: Prometheus and Grafana: Visualizing Application Performance
The heatmap panel
- [Instructor] The Heatmap is one of the most powerful panel types available in Grafana. It allows you to identify patterns and trends in data distributions over time, which is a critical aspect of understanding system behavior. This video will provide a detailed exploration of the Grafana Heatmap panel, from its fundamental principles to comprehensive configuration options and effective strategies for use. To fully appreciate the capabilities of the Heatmap panel, it is essential to first understand its fundamental elements, the histogram. A histogram is a graphical representation that organizes numerical data into distinct intervals, known as buckets or bins. It then illustrates the frequency with which values fall into each of these buckets, typically using bars or varying heights. The height of each bar corresponds to the number of data points within its respective value range. The Heatmap visualization extends this concept by introducing the dimension of time. In essence, a…
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