The following settings are available in the Global section, and are detailed below.
Main settings include:
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Display Mode: Display only metrics that have triggered a threshold or display all metrics.
- All: Displays metrics from all polygons
- Triggered: Only polygons with a threshold triggered are displayed
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Non Triggered State Text: Text to be displayed in polygon when there are no triggered thresholds and global display mode is set to triggered.
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Show Value: Show the value of the metric along with the name.
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Shape: See more at Shapes.
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Use Color Gradients: This option will apply a shaded color instead of a uniform color.
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Global Fill Color: This is the color used when there are no thresholds that apply to the metric or composite.
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Global Border Color: The color of the border for each polygon can be set, and is used along with the size setting above.
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Unit: All of the unit types are available in this selector and will be applied to the value displayed.
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Stat: Select which statistic to display for the value. The full set of statistics that Grafana provides are available.
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Decimals: This limits the number of decimals displayed.
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Global Thresholds: This set of thresholds are applied to all metrics that do not have a matching override. See Use thresholds for details on how thresholds are evaluated.
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Global Clickthrough: The clickthrough URL is applied to all polygons that do not have an override or composite with a clickthrough specified. See more at Use Clickthroughs.
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Global Aliasing: This field allows you to specify a regular expression to pick a portion of matching metric names to be rendered instead of the full name. See more at Global Aliasing.
Currently there are three shapes that can be selected, and each use a best fit method to maximize size to the panel.
Hexagon Pointed Top
Circle
Square
This field allows you to specify a regular expression to pick a portion of matching metric names to be rendered instead of the full name.
If you have these 3 queries, returning the following series:
- Foo-A, values 1,2,3
- Bar-B, values 4,5,6
- Misc, values 7,8,9
If you add the regular expression /(Foo|Bar)/, the result is:






