Dashboards & Visualizations

Coloring slices of a pie by the status of the slice

peiffer
Path Finder

I am looking for a visualization mechanism to colorize slices of a pie by their status OK (green), Warning (yellow), Major (orange), Critical (red).

All of the pie chart viz examples I have seen are ranked by count of some category, and I want to rank by status.  In the example below, I have 4 groups of services, each with a number of service instances providing service up to a maximum number defined for the group.  I would like to visually see a group NofM colored by status and not ranked by count.

Any ideas on where to go?  The pie chart viz is ruled out per the above (I think).  I looked for other visualizations such as the starburst,  but it didn't present the way I wanted to.

Example SPL:

| makeresults
| eval dbs = "[{\"entity\":\"I0\",\"instanceCount\":\"0\",\"instanceMax\":\"3\"},{\"entity\":\"I1\",\"instanceCount\":\"1\",\"instanceMax\":\"3\"},{\"entity\":\"I2\",\"instanceCount\":\"2\",\"instanceMax\":\"3\"},{\"entity\":\"I3\",\"instanceCount\":\"3\",\"instanceMax\":\"3\"}]"
| spath input=dbs path={} output=dblist
| mvexpand dblist
| spath input=dblist
| eval pct_avail=round(100*instanceCount/instanceMax,1)
| eval status=case(pct_avail=100, "OK", pct_avail>=50, "Warning", pct_avail>1, "Major", true(), "Critical")
| eval color=case(
    status="Critical", "#FF0000",
    status="Major", "#D94E17",
    status="Warning", "#CBA700",
    status="OK", "#118832",
    true(), "#1182F3"
)
| stats count by entity

 

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peiffer
Path Finder

Followup to previous, the SPL below shows status 'dots' in a chart.  I am prepared to use it if I can't find a pie slice coloring that will work for me.

| makeresults 
| eval dbs = "[{\"entity\":\"I0\",\"instanceCount\":\"0\",\"instanceMax\":\"3\"},{\"entity\":\"I1\",\"instanceCount\":\"1\",\"instanceMax\":\"3\"},{\"entity\":\"I2\",\"instanceCount\":\"2\",\"instanceMax\":\"3\"},{\"entity\":\"I3\",\"instanceCount\":\"3\",\"instanceMax\":\"3\"}]"
| spath input=dbs path={} output=dblist | mvexpand dblist
| spath input=dblist
| eval pct_avail=round(100*instanceCount/instanceMax,1)
| eval status=case(pct_avail=100, "🟢", pct_avail>=50, "🟡️", pct_avail>1 , "🟠" ,true(), "🔴")
| table _time entity instanceCount instanceMax pct_avail status
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