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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 000000000..5024e74ee --- /dev/null +++ b/web/api/formatters/value/README.md @@ -0,0 +1,17 @@ +# 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). |