allow to show gauges in multiple lines

[morgango]

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Description of the problem including expected versus actual behavior:

When I try to make multiple gauges (5) the number cannot be displayed if it has more than 5 digits, including decimal points. This might be OK for simple counts of small data sets, but is unusable for real-world use.

For more terms it is even worse:

That is simply too few for practical use, as anything in the thousands is not visible. Consider that a second has more than a thousand miliseconds, making these impractical for very common time periods. Also, if you use any type of aggregation (average, median, etc.) you will definitely have lots of decimal points to content with.

You should automatically move the text below the gauge if there will be overlap.

Steps to reproduce:

1. Create a Gauge visualization.
2. Split by Term.
3. Watch text disappear for small numbers.

[Webreaper]

Seeing the same thing - at the very least, the font size should shrink so the labels don't disappear, instead of always displaying the rather annoying "Some labels were hidden due to size constraints".

If this can't be done automatically, perhaps the font-size slider option can be applied for multiple gauge metrics?

[ppisljar]

i would suggest to use percentage mode if you plan to put multiple gauges together
also it depends on the size of your panel on the dashboard, and screen resolution

with any chart you can produce unusable results ... try to do a bar chart, date histogram on x axis then do a term split with 50 terms .... that won't make sense. or pie, or any other chart pretty much.

its up to the user to figure out what still makes sense, and yeah i agree showing tens of gauges won't make sense in most scenarios.

[Webreaper]

That's not really a great response. There is absolutely no reason why the layout code can't be made better here. Obviously, it'll only scale to a certain level, but at the moment it's just terrible. See this screenshot, for example - look at all the whitespace. If the gauges scaled a little and wrapped a bit, it would be perfectly usable. This is not an exceptional usage of the gauges.

[ppisljar]

currently gauges can be shown either horizontally or vertically

i updated the title of this issue, if i understand correctly what we are looking for is have a mix of two (horizontally positioned gauges in multiple lines)

[Webreaper]

Yep, exactly - some adaptable layout that'll use the space more optimally (and as a side-effect allow the individual gauges to render larger) would be great. :)

[ghudgins]

@gvnmagni @markov00 a related issue to a discussion about small multiples we talked about recently