Business Variable
The Business Variable panel builds on top of the regular dashboard variables. It allows you to have dashboard filters in a separate panel, which you can place anywhere on the dashboard.
The Business Variable panel builds on top of the regular dashboard variables. It allows you to have dashboard filters in a separate panel, which you can place anywhere on the dashboard.
In the Button display mode, you get horizontally positioned variable values looking like buttons. Optionally, you can set up color-coding rules in the Thresholds category on the right.
To get a glimpse under the hood, please review the following comparison.
The Business Variable panel enhances dashboard variables by making them more user-friendly and allowing to place the panel anywhere on the dashboard.
The empty value option was introduced in version 2.0.0.
The Business Variable panel provides an extensive set of features.
The input text box is supported in the Table and Minimize display modes.
A Grafana variable can be composed of a key and value to make it possible to join data sets by IDs(key) while displaying user-friendly names(value). The Business Variable panel supports this feature in all modes.
Select Minimize if you plan to have the native select look and need to place it anywhere on your dashboard.
Variable panel supports redirects since version 2.3.1.
Variable panel supports redirects since version 2.2.0.
Release Notes for the Business Variable panel.
The Business Variable panel supports the Slider display mode starting from version 3.0.0.
You can allow users to sort the Business Variable panel values based on the data retrieved from the data source.
The Table mode provides many variations, from the simplest basic single variable view to the most loaded TreeView.
New features and updates in Business Variable 3.0.0