Define and document monitor charts "appearance" customizations
Problem to solve
Currently a few aspects of the monitor charts are customizable:
| default look and feel | customized |
|---|---|
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These can be customized by users from their dashboard.yml as datources in an appearance field, however, these options have been added into the code ad-hoc and have not documented or decided on by the ux team.
At the moment the customizations are:
In TimeSeries (Area / Line), Anomaly (Boundary Band, AverageLine)
-
line.type(echart docs): 'solid', 'dashed', 'dotted' -
line.width(echart docs): int number -
area.opacity(echart docs): floating point from 0 to 1
Further details
Possibly the options are a legacy of customization that was used internally, and now that this configuration is available to users we can remove it.
Proposal
2 main ways can be taken:
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Remove the configurable options altogether and keep the default look and feel for all charts. -
Decide which options should be kept and document them, to allow the users to customize - And decide if more options should be added / removed.
Who can address the issue
Folks at @gitlab-org/monitor/ux
Other links/references
Edited by Miguel Rincon