Edit visualization and saving

Editing a saved visualization enables you to directly modify the object definition. You can change the object title, add a description, and modify the JSON that defines the object properties. After selecting the index and the method of data presentation, you can enter the editing mode. This will open a new window with empty visualization.

At the very top there is a bar of queries that cat be edited throughout the creation of the visualization. It work in the same way as in the “Discover” tab, which means searching the raw data, but instead of the data being displayed, the visualization will be edited. The following example will be based on the „Area chart”. The visualization modification panel on the left is divided into two tabs: „Data” and „Options”.

In the „Data” tab, you can modyfiy the elements responsible for which data and how should be presented. In this tab there are two sectors: “metrics”, in which we set what data should be displayed, and „buckets” in which we specify how they should be presented. In the „Options” tab, there are settings relating mainly to visual aesthetics. Each type of visualization has separate options. To create the first graph in the char modification panel, in the „Data” tab we add X-Axis in the “buckets” sections. In „Aggregation” choose „Date Histogram”, in „Field” should automatically be located “timestamp”, and “interval”: “Auto” (if not, this is how we set it). Click on the icon on the panel. Now our first graph should show up.

Some of the options for „Area Chart” are:

Smooth Lines - is used to smooth the graph line.

• Current time marker – places a vertical line on the graph that determines the current time.

• Set Y-Axis Extents – allows you to set minimum and maximum values for the Y axis, which increases the readability of the graphs. This is useful, if we know that the data will never be less then (the minimum value), or to indicate the goals the company (maximum value).

• Show Tooltip – option for displaying the information window under the mouse cursor, after pointing to the point on the graph.

  

To save the visualization, click the icon next to the query bar, give it a name and click the button . To load the visualization, go to the „Settings” tab from the main menu at the top of the page, then from the submenu select „Objects” and finally the “Visualizations” tab. From this place, we can also go into advanced editing mode, export and delete visualization.