Displaying metrics in different format on a dashboard

[dougwillis]

I'm in the process of converting a grafana dashboard to a Dynatrace equivalent and have run up against a number formatting issue.

I have a monitor that produces replication LSN metrics on a Prometheus endpoint. It is being scraped into Dynatrace which is storing the metric as a double type.

I want to display a timeline graph so it will show the steps in LSN. I normally see this as HEX values in Grafana.

Is there a way to do the number to hex string conversion on the metric when it is displayed on the Dynatrace dashboard?

[marco_irmer]

Have you tried using the numberToHexString function in DQL?

[dougwillis]

Thanks for the reply.

As I understand it the Dynatrace graph tools are not setup to use a hex format string as a scalable value.

I've used that on a table column value. There was a catch however. The numberToHexString required I cast the double to a long before the function would generate the hex string.