Bar Chart Widget

The Bar Chart widget represents sets of categorical data as rectangular bars.

A bar chart displaying categorical data as rectangular bars. The chart is titled New bar column chart. The Y-axis shows Status code group. The X-axis displays the Number of ended Jobs, using the count option. Two categories are shown on the Y-axis: ANY_OK with a count around 380, and ANY_ABEND with a count around 80. The chart configuration options include fields for Title, Display as (set to Vertical Bar Chart), X-axis settings (Show Number of ended Jobs with options for count, sum, and average), and Y-axis settings (Show Status code group with a category limit of 15). The horizontal orientation of bar charts is especially useful to display load distributions over time.

The Bar Chart allows you to categorize one-dimensional data by attribute and then display the values that you want as bars or columns.

  •  Appearance
    • Title: title of the widget (displayed in the upper part of the widget).

      If no title is defined, the default Bar chart title is displayed.

    • Display as: chart orientation.

      Note: The vertical orientation allows for a good visualization of ordered/rank data. For example: show top ten executions by runtime/number of executions. On the other hand, the horizontal orientation is especially useful to display load distributions over time.

  • X-axis: here you select the values to be displayed on the horizontal axis. You can select the following values:
    • Count: Displays the total number of records by sub-category:
      • The Number option in the Show dropdown list is selected automatically.

      • In the Jobs dropdown list you can filter the status of the data to be displayed: ended or started.

        Example: The Agent Type category contains the following sub-categories: Windows, UNIX and Generic. If you select the count value and the started status from the Show drop-down list, the total number of started agents is displayed:

        Screenshot that shows a horizontal bar chart titled Bar Chart. The chart displays categorical data as rectangular bars, representing values for different categories. The categories on the Y-axis are: WINDOWS, UNIX, GENERIC. The X-axis represents the count, displaying the total number of records by sub-category. The values for each category appear to be approximately: WINDOWS: ~240, UNIX: ~220, GENERIC: ~20. Based on the Bar Chart Widget source, this type of chart can be used to visualize data such as the number of started agents for each agent type. Hovering over the bars would show the exact number of reported elements.

    • Sum: Total sum of a certain value that is displayed by sub-category.
      • Select how you want to show the sum value: by runtime (real runtime) or by ERT (estimated runtime).

      • In the Jobs drop-down list you can filter the status of the data to be displayed: ended or started.

        Example: The 244 Windows Agents and 223 UNIX Agents sum the following run time:

        Bar chart showing the sum of runtime for different agent types: Windows, UNIX, and Generic. The X-axis displays the runtime in seconds, minutes, and hours, up to 1 hour 23 minutes 20 seconds. The Windows bar extends to 1 hour 23 minutes 20 seconds, while UNIX is shorter.

    • Average: average of a certain value that is displayed by sub-category.
      • Select how you want to show the average value: by runtime (real runtime) or by ERT (estimated runtime).

      • In the Jobs drop-down list you can filter the status of the data to be displayed: ended or started.

        Example: Average runtime of all Windows, Generic, and Linux agents:

        The image is a bar chart that displays data categorized by operating system. The horizontal axis represents time in seconds, ranging from 0 to 10 seconds. The vertical axis lists the operating systems: Windows, Generic, and UNIX. The length of each bar corresponds to the average runtime for each operating system. Windows has the longest bar, extending to approximately 6 seconds. Generic has a bar length of around 4 seconds. UNIX has the shortest bar, at approximately 2 seconds.

  • Y-axis: Here you select the values to be displayed on the vertical axis. Data can be grouped by Agent type, Agent name, hour of day, object name, and so on.

    Note: You can set a maximum number of displayed sub-categories by selecting the desired number in the categories picker.

    Example: if you set the grouping limit to two, only the biggest two sub-categories is displayed in the chart:

    Bar chart displaying categorical data as rectangular bars. The chart shows WINDOWS and GENERIC as categories on the Y-axis, with corresponding horizontal bars representing values on the X-axis, measured in seconds. The WINDOWS bar extends to approximately 6 seconds, while the GENERIC bar reaches around 4 seconds.

Setting Widget Specific Timeframe

You can set a specific local timeframe directly in a widget. When this feature is activated, all data contained in the widget is specific to your set timeframe. All other widgets in your dashboard are unaffected by individual widget changes.

Note: Hover over the bars to see the exact number of reported elements.

Note: You can remove one or more bars by clicking them, selecting the exclude selected elements checkbox and clicking Apply.

  • Description: Optionally, you can specify a description to better identify the data displayed.