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diff --git a/web/api/formatters/value/README.md b/web/api/formatters/value/README.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..50974de --- /dev/null +++ b/web/api/formatters/value/README.md @@ -0,0 +1,19 @@ +# Value formatter + +The Value formatter presents [results of database queries](../../queries) as a single value. + +To calculate the single value to be returned, it sums the values of all dimensions. + +The Value formatter respects the following API `&options=`: + +option|supported|description +:---:|:---:|:--- +`percent`|yes|to replace all values with their percentage over the row total +`abs`|yes|to turn all values positive, before using them +`min2max`|yes|to return the delta from the minimum value to the maximum value (across dimensions) + +The Value formatter is not exposed by the API by itself. +Instead it is used by the [`ssv`](../ssv) formatter +and [health monitoring queries](../../../../health). + +[![analytics](https://www.google-analytics.com/collect?v=1&aip=1&t=pageview&_s=1&ds=github&dr=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2Fnetdata%2Fnetdata&dl=https%3A%2F%2Fmy-netdata.io%2Fgithub%2Fweb%2Fapi%2Fformatters%2Fvalue%2FREADME&_u=MAC~&cid=5792dfd7-8dc4-476b-af31-da2fdb9f93d2&tid=UA-64295674-3)]() |