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More control over charts and graphs

I find myself more and more pulling data out of SolarWinds so I can graph it in something like Grafana. Not that SolarWinds can't, it's just that I have no control over the end results.

It would be nice if we could have the ability to change the colors of various lines, or columns, or pie chart areas to make the reports look better.

It would be nice if we could have a SUM function to be able to say show me the results of all these things as a sum, but then hide the supporting data lines. Just show me a graph of the sum.Ah, but you might say, "I think you can do that already", but you would be wrong. You can do a sum of a SINGLE data set, but it's gonna show all the supporting data set lines below that. (Trust me, I opened a support case to find this out)

I'd love the ability to SUM more than one data set for a graph as well.

It's these graphs and charts that go up the chain to the top and they end up with ugly, bland colors that make the data look like junk. Then they come back to me asking why we are paying for SolarWinds when other products out there do graphs much better.

Anyone else out there using Grafana to do your graphs and charts?

Here's an example of what I had to send up to our owners recently.