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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..21c9370 --- /dev/null +++ b/web/api/formatters/value/README.md @@ -0,0 +1,24 @@ +<!-- +title: "Value formatter" +custom_edit_url: https://github.com/netdata/netdata/edit/master/web/api/formatters/value/README.md +--> + +# Value formatter + +The Value formatter presents [results of database queries](/web/api/queries/README.md) 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`](/web/api/formatters/ssv/README.md) formatter +and [health monitoring queries](/health/README.md). + +[![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)](<>) |