Sparklines

[ohTHATaaronbrown]

It was simple, and a great way to give a quick overview, often of individual lines in a complex graph.

I miss it.

[zijian1981]

+1

[arnisoph]

+1

[SecEng]

+1

[pretoritus]

+1

[kurtpayne]

+1

[davidski]

+1

[fhlmbrg]

+1

[sandipok]

+1

[t3chn0m4g3]

+1

[canagnos]

+1

[Secespitus]

+1

[frutik]

+1

[thomasneirynck]

Since sparklines are basically small line-charts, could the existing Line-chart get you there most of the way?

e.g.: when you can hide the X and Y-axes, you could create a couple small multiples with line charts

Or are you looking for something in particular? E.g. embedding these sparklines in text (e.g. which you sometimes see in online news articles)?

[alexfrancoeur]

For reference, this is what Sparklines looked like in Kibana 3.

As @thomasneirynck mentioned above, we can pretty much get there with our existing line charts.

I'm wondering if those that are interested in this feature would like to see sparklines say, in a data table. Some examples below:

[watersdoug]

+1

[davidlyh]

+1

[msugakov]

Both this issue #3395 and related issue #26624 are closed now. Should at least one remain open unless sparklines are implemented?

[andrewharry]

So did this get implemented? Are they any documentation/guides on how to reproduce the older (v3) sparkines?

[chrisholt-nhsd]

I had the same question...it's being tracked (and the sample image of a page of spark lines is exactly what I wanted) but seemingly no progress?

[chrisholt-nhsd]

Particularly of note is when making the tables shown by @alexfrancoeur (as opposed to the dashboard) is that the table is a variable length table / sorted display of data combined with a time series chart for each item. The items are not predetermined like a dashboard card and the order of the table will change (ie with data refresh). The only way I can see to do this is have a fixed number of sparklines predrawn as small graphs (say 5), with a table of 5 rows aligned alongside, and then do 6 queries - date histogram of the last hour to populate the table (for example) with top-5 and then 5 individual queries to get the same data and then take the n-th item and join it with a subsequent query for all the data points for that item in the last hour. Complicated if even possible and resource expensive. And that's for 5- to do a table of 50 and refresh that every minute is not efficient or fun to make!

[keithboone]

+1 especially for tables.

[DrMxxxxx]

This would be an awesome addition for observability, too.

[rms1000watt]

+1 on the observability front.

From: https://docs.vividcortex.com/how-to-use-vividcortex/profiler/ It would be nice to replicate these in kibana