Once you create a query you can use charts or maps to visualize that data in notebooks, dashboards and alerts (alerts only support line charts).
Lightstep offers the following visualizations:
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Line chart: Available for all data
Displays a line that connects the charted values. -
Heatmap Available for span latency and distribution-type metric data in dashboards and notebooks. Multiple queries are not supported.
Heatmaps allow you to see the distribution of values over time. Unlike a line chart, you can see the number of data points for a particular value, at a particular point in time. Color saturation in the map represents the amount of data points - the darker the color, the more data points for that value, at the point in time.For example, in the following heatmap, you can see that there are 300 points with a value between
500ms
and600ms
around 9:10 am.But starting at around 9:18 am, the distribution of data points shifts. There are now a number of points in the higher range of latency and fewer data points at the lower range (many of the dark blue cells changed to a lighter blue). The legend on the right shows the range of color values.
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Bar chart: Available for metric data in dashboards and notebooks
Displays a bar for the value at a given time point. Bar charts are good for displaying discrete values, like the number of requests. -
Area chart: Available for metric data in dashboards and notebooks
Displays a shaded area for the value. Area charts are helpful when you’re charting more than one metric. -
Big number: Available for metric data dashboards and notebooks
Displays an aggregated value over time as a number. Big number charts are useful when you only need to know the current value of a metric and don’t expect to investigate any changes. When creating a big number chart, note the following:- Click under the number to add a subtitle.
- Because a big number chart displays a single value, you can not group by an attribute. If you use more than one metric for your chart, you need to combine them using a formula.
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Dependency map: Available for span data in dashboards and notebooks. Multiple queries are not supported.
Displays a map showing services (and optionally operations) dependent on the queried data. You can query on services, operations and other attributes.Learn more about dependency maps.