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...