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I need to create a dashboard to be used in a control room, where a bunch of operators will need to monitor the number of tasks assigned to other employees (among other aspects).

Source data will be coming from a RDBMs (PostgreSQL, in this case). We have people with assigned and numbered tasks that also have a status, and the DB data is like this (purely fictional: but it resembles the real one)

Example of data

Having to create and mantain a dashboard i was thinking to use tools like Grafana, Kibana or similars, to plot something like this

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The problem is that Grafana, for example, doesn't let me use alphabetical values for the x-axis. It only allow numeric values, while i've names to plot (Mark, Luke, Brian).

Is there a best practice than i can follow? Am i trying to use the wrong tools?

paoloyx
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Actually solution is easier then you think although it also took me some time to figure it out. I will place here an example for some unspecified shop data grouped over countries - you just need to change it for your task. Example was tested on Grafana 5.0.3

  1. PostgreSQL query for metrics
SELECT
  $__time( partition_date ),
  country as metric,
  sum(value) as value
FROM
  aggregations.my_data_for_dashboard
WHERE
  shop = 'myshopname' AND 
  $__timeFilter(partition_date )
group by 1, 2

Grafana will show usual metrics: enter image description here

  1. In "Axes" tab look at "X-Axis" section, item "Mode" - switch "Time" to "Series" and Grafana will show bar chart for countries.

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