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diff --git a/docs/dashboard/visualization-date-and-time-controls.mdx b/docs/dashboard/visualization-date-and-time-controls.mdx deleted file mode 100644 index a59a1f066..000000000 --- a/docs/dashboard/visualization-date-and-time-controls.mdx +++ /dev/null @@ -1,125 +0,0 @@ -<!-- -title: "Visualization date and time controls" -description: "Netdata's dashboard features powerful date visualization controls that include a time control (play, pause, force play), a timezone selector and a rich date and timeframe selector, with useful defaults and rich customization, to help you narrow your focus when troubleshooting issues or anomalies." -type: "how-to" -custom_edit_url: "https://github.com/netdata/netdata/edit/master/docs/dashboard/visualization-date-and-time-controls.mdx" -sidebar_label: "Visualization date and time controls" -learn_status: "Published" -learn_topic_type: "Concepts" -learn_rel_path: "Concepts" ---> - -# Visualization date and time controls - -## Date and time selector - -### Pick timeframes to visualize - -While [panning through time and zooming in/out](https://github.com/netdata/netdata/blob/master/docs/dashboard/interact-charts.mdx) from charts it is helpful when -you're looking a recent history, or want to do granular troubleshooting, what if you want to see metrics from 6 hours -ago? Or 6 days? - -Netdata's dashboard features a **timeframe selector** to help you visualize specific timeframes in a few helpful ways. -By default, it shows a certain number of minutes of historical metrics based on the your browser's viewport to ensure -it's always showing per-second granularity. - -#### Open the timeframe selector - -To visualize a new timeframe, you need to open the picker, which appears just above the menu, near the top-right cover -of the dashboard. - - - -The **Clear** button resets the dashboard back to its default state based on your browser viewport, and **Apply** closes -the picker and shifts all charts to the selected timeframe. - -#### Use the Quick Selector - -Click any of the following options in the **Quick Selector** to choose a commonly-used timeframe. - -- Last 5 minutes -- Last 15 minutes -- Last 2 hours -- Last 6 hours -- Last 12 hours - -Click **Apply** to see metrics from your selected timeframe. - -#### Choose a specific interval - -Beneath the Quick Selector is an input field and dropdown you use in combination to select a specific timeframe of -minutes, hours, days, or months. Enter a number and choose the appropriate unit of time, then click **Apply**. - -#### Choose multiple days - -Use the calendar to select multiple days. Click on a date to begin the timeframe selection, then an ending date. The -timeframe begins at noon on the beginning and end dates. Click **Apply** to see your selected multi-day timeframe. - -## Time controls - -The time control provides you the following options: **Play**, **Pause** and **Force Play**. -* **Play** - the content of the page will be automatically refreshed while this is in the foreground -* **Pause** - the content of the page isn't refreshed due to a manual request to pause it or, for example, when your investigating data on a -chart (cursor is on top of a chart) -* **Force Play** - the content of the page will be automatically refreshed even if this is in the background - -With this, we aim to bring more clarity and allow you to distinguish if the content you are looking at is live or historical and also allow you - to always refresh the content of the page when the tabs are in the background. - -Main use cases for **Force Play**: -* You use a terminal or deployment tools to do changes in your infra and want to see immediately, Netdata is in the background, displaying the impact -of these changes -* You want to have Netdata on the background, example displayed on a TV, to constantly see metrics through dashboards or to watch the alert -status - - - -## Timezone selector - -With the timezone selector, you have the ability to change the timezone on Netdata Cloud. More often than not teams are -distributed in different timezones and they need to collaborate. - -Our goal is to make it easier for you and your teams to troubleshoot based on your timezone preference and communicate easily -with varying timezones and timeframes without the need to be concerned about their specificity. - -<img width="437" alt="Untitled1" src="https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/43294513/216628390-c3bd1cd2-349d-4523-b8d3-c7e68395f670.png"> - -When you change the timezone all the date and time fields will be updated to be displayed according to the specified timezone, this goes from -charts to alerts information and across the Netdata Cloud. - -## Caveats and considerations - -**Longer timeframes will decrease metrics granularity**. At the default timeframe, based on your browser viewport, each -"tick" on charts represents one second. If you select a timeframe of 6 hours, each tick represents the _average_ value -across a larger period of time. - -**You can only see metrics as far back in history as your metrics retention policy allows**. Netdata uses an internal -time-series database (TSDB) to store as many metrics as it can within a specific amount of disk space. The default -storage is 256 MiB, which should be enough for 1-3 days of historical metrics. If you navigate back to a timeframe -beyond stored historical metrics, you'll see this message: - - - -At any time, [configure the internal TSDB's storage capacity](https://github.com/netdata/netdata/blob/master/docs/store/change-metrics-storage.md) to expand your -depth of historical metrics. - -## What's next? - -One useful next step after selecting a timeframe is [exporting the -metrics](https://github.com/netdata/netdata/blob/master/docs/dashboard/import-export-print-snapshot.mdx) into a snapshot file, which can then be shared and imported -into any other Netdata dashboard. - -There are also many ways to [customize](https://github.com/netdata/netdata/blob/master/docs/dashboard/customize.mdx) the standard dashboard experience, from changing -the theme to editing the text that accompanies every section of charts. - -## Further reading & related information - -- Dashboard - - [How the dashboard works](https://github.com/netdata/netdata/blob/master/docs/dashboard/how-dashboard-works.mdx) - - [Interact with charts](https://github.com/netdata/netdata/blob/master/docs/dashboard/interact-charts.mdx) - - [Chart dimensions, contexts, and families](https://github.com/netdata/netdata/blob/master/docs/dashboard/dimensions-contexts-families.mdx) - - [Import, export, and print a snapshot](https://github.com/netdata/netdata/blob/master/docs/dashboard/import-export-print-snapshot.mdx) - - [Customize the standard dashboard](https://github.com/netdata/netdata/blob/master/docs/dashboard/customize.mdx) |