Metric Dashboard Terminology
A recent slack discussion wanted to standardize how we define a component in a dashboard. Is it a chart? Or is it a panel?
This issue is meant to continue that discussion and have a place to standardize our terminology. As an outcome of this issue, we should update our documentation to include the standard terms and/or update the handbook.
Definitions and Documentation
@mikolaj_wawrzyniak summed it up like this:
panel
contain single displayable unit (most of a times it is a chart) https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/project/integrations/prometheus.html#panel-panels-propertiespanels are included into some group (
panel_groups
) https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/project/integrations/prometheus.html#panel-group-panel_groups-properties
Visuals
This is a Panel:
This is a Panel Group:
Diagram
To show some of the different terms we use, here is a diagram with how components are related: