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New Feature Request
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Resolution: Unresolved
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Low
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7.0.19, 7.2.13, 7.4.3
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Allowing us to sort and filter the cells by value (or name) would make the honeycomb widget far more usable in larger environments.
At the moment I have a few customers that are trying to visualize some sort of overview of various items using the honeycomb widget do acheive a larger data density than the "top X"-widgets.
Unfortunately some important items goes missing under the "..." cell as we are not able to filter and sort on the values at the moment.
If we have to choose, I'd say that the filter is higher priority as we could have multiple widgets for value-groups, but the optimal option would be to sort the cells and simply let the least important items (by their value or name) be hidden under the "..." cell.
A few examples where this has come up lately:
- Customer wants to display state (by round-trip time) of PoS-terminals in stores in a high-density dashboard. Current (unsorted?) behaviour sometimes hides the worst terminals under "...".
- Customer has a large number of remote desktop hosts and collects data on time-to-desktop on logins. Above a certain threshold the host may need to be restarted. They want a high density display where the cells are displayed worst to best at a glance.
- Customer wants to have an overview of their cluster-disks sorted/filtered by IOPS. Important that the worst offenders is always shown up top.
- Customer wants a color-coded view of their Azure workflows/runbooks by run-times. The slowest instances must always be shown.
We have tried to use the "top X"-widgets, but they do not provide the data density we need in these examples. Using Grafana has gotten us somewhat close, but this requires unnecessary jumps between monitoring and visualization.
Unfortunately, I am not allowed to share screenshots of their environments, but I guess just imagine a full-page honeycomb widget with seemingly random colors, red through yellow to green, and that "..." cell at the bottom. The wish is to have the cells sorted in a red-yellow-green gradation from top-left to bottom-right based on the values or names.