Advanced charting

Charting in itself is one of the most helpful tools to visualize data; however, there are some things that leadership may ask for that are more difficult, and may come down to something as simple as reformatting a chart to switch the X and Y axis, or overlaying results week over week to show change. There are some common techniques that you can use to get the job done, which we will discuss here.

Overlay

Making charts is great; however, sometimes the boss wants everything in a single pane. There are lots of different ways we can make a chart overlay with our data, but here we are only going to discuss a single use case.

In this overlay, we are only going to discuss how to perform these functions using a single axis as your point of overlay.

Host CPU / MEM utilization

Let's say that our Linux engineering team would like a way to be able to view the CPU and MEM utilization of a single host, and search it through time. They would like to build a dashboard with this panel in it...