topic Re: Latest Dashboards - How to get non-stacked, time-series bar charts when splitting by multiple dimensions? in Dashboarding

Latest Dashboards - How to get non-stacked, time-series bar charts when splitting by multiple dimensions?

36Krazyfists — Wed, 02 Jul 2025 06:39:43 GMT

In the old Data Explorer style charts, you could choose between column or stacked column. With the regular column chart, if you were splitting by multiple dimensions, each split had its own bar chart grouped beside the other dimension values for each time interval. This works well for things like percentage style metrics (CPU Usage, Memory usage, etc...).

With the modern dashboards app, you can only seem to stack charts. This means for percentage-based metrics that are split, you will either get stacks that add up well over 100%, or you can choose relative and get stacks that add up to 100% but only because they're showing relative values and thus they aren't showing the true percentage values (unless you hover over them and look at the tooltip).

I just want regular, old-style, non-stacked columns like this:

I tried using the categorical chart type, but I can't get that to give me time series. That puts the bars besides each other like I want, but it summarizes all the intervals for each dimension into a single value.

Is this just not a feature that's available yet or am I missing something painfully obvious here?

I tried looking through the docs for the modern dashboard app, but I just can't find a solution for this...

Re: Latest Dashboards - How to get non-stacked, time-series bar charts when splitting by multiple dimensions?

marco_irmer — Tue, 22 Jul 2025 18:12:47 GMT

I believe the short version is that the new Dashboards app only supports stacked bars, and not side-by-side display available in the Dashboards Classic app.

I recommend submitting a product idea if this functionality is important to you.

Re: Latest Dashboards - How to get non-stacked, time-series bar charts when splitting by multiple dimensions?

36Krazyfists — Mon, 28 Jul 2025 17:48:09 GMT

If that's true then that's kind of nuts... Seems like a fairly basic feature. Stacked columns aren't always appropriate.

Thanks for the reply!

Re: Latest Dashboards - How to get non-stacked, time-series bar charts when splitting by multiple dimensions?

MARCOSSILVA — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 13:01:22 GMT

This is frustrating, I thought it was something I didn't know how to do in the new version.