Dashboards & Visualizations

How can I change the color for the entire column graph and not by each value?

johnward4
Communicator

I'm trying to see if there's a way to change the color for the entire column graph and the examples I've seen/tried so far are for specifying a color by value. This is purely for aesthetic reasons, trying to create a consistent theme to my dashboard.

Thanks in advance

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493669
Super Champion

I don't think you can override chart colors either using css .
but you can do a trick: use charting.fieldColors give the column name and hex color code which will give a consistent theme to your dashboard.
Try this run anywhere search:

<dashboard>
  <label>ColorColumn Chart</label>
  <row>
    <panel>
      <chart>
        <search>
          <query>index=_internal|stats count by source</query>
          <earliest>-15m</earliest>
          <latest>now</latest>
          <sampleRatio>1</sampleRatio>
        </search>
          <option name="charting.fieldColors">{"count": 0xFF0000}</option>
          <option name="charting.chart">column</option>
          <option name="charting.legend.placement">right</option>
       </chart>
    </panel>
  </row>
</dashboard>

if you want you can change font color and background color as well using <option name="charting.fontColor"> and <option name="charting.backgroundColor">
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mayurr98
Super Champion

hey I think you should use <option name="charting.seriesColors">[0xFF0000]</option> as in charting.fieldColors you will have to specify all the field name with hex color codes.
So if you have multiple fields then you should use only <option name="charting.seriesColors">[0xFF0000]</option> and this will do for all the fields.

Try this run anywhere XML

<dashboard>
  <label>ColorColumn Chart</label>
  <row>
    <panel>
      <chart>
        <search>
          <query>index=_internal|stats count values(bytes) as s by source</query>
          <earliest>-15m</earliest>
          <latest>now</latest>
          <sampleRatio>1</sampleRatio>
        </search>
        <option name="charting.chart">column</option>
        <option name="charting.seriesColors">[0xFF0000]</option>
        <option name="charting.legend.placement">right</option>
        <option name="refresh.display">progressbar</option>
      </chart>
    </panel>
  </row>
</dashboard>

let me know if this helps!

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493669
Super Champion

I don't think you can override chart colors either using css .
but you can do a trick: use charting.fieldColors give the column name and hex color code which will give a consistent theme to your dashboard.
Try this run anywhere search:

<dashboard>
  <label>ColorColumn Chart</label>
  <row>
    <panel>
      <chart>
        <search>
          <query>index=_internal|stats count by source</query>
          <earliest>-15m</earliest>
          <latest>now</latest>
          <sampleRatio>1</sampleRatio>
        </search>
          <option name="charting.fieldColors">{"count": 0xFF0000}</option>
          <option name="charting.chart">column</option>
          <option name="charting.legend.placement">right</option>
       </chart>
    </panel>
  </row>
</dashboard>

if you want you can change font color and background color as well using <option name="charting.fontColor"> and <option name="charting.backgroundColor">
alt text

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johnward4
Communicator

Thank You!!

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