Label Formatting

The label-format setting can be used to customize series labels displayed in the widget legend as an alternative to specifying a custom label for each series.

The default label-format pattern is:

entity: metric: tags: statistics: period: dataType - forecastName: rate

Supported keywords in the label-format pattern are:

  • entity
  • metric
  • tags – semicolon-separated list of all tag=value pairs
  • tagName – semicolon-separated list of all tag names
  • tagValue – semicolon-separated list of all tag values
  • tags.tagName – value of tag with name tagName
  • statistics
  • period
  • dataType
  • forecastName
  • rate
  • label – value of the label setting in the current series
label-format = entity
# Display only the entity name in the legend
[series]
  entity = nurswgvml007
  metric = cpu_busy
[series]
  entity = nurswgvml006
  metric = cpu_busy
Chartlab Example
Chartlab Example
Chartlab Example

The label-format setting can be used to replace entity and metric names with labels loaded in metadata.

  add-meta = true
  label-format = javascript: (meta.entity.label ? meta.entity.label : entity) + ": " + (meta.metric.label ? meta.metric.label : metric) + (tags+"" != 'null' ? ": " + tags : "") + (statistics && statistics != 'detail' ? ": " + statistics : "") + (period ? " - " + period : "") + (dataType ? ": " + dataType : "") + (rate ? ": ∇ " + rate : "")
Chartlab Example

The label-format setting can invoke built-in string functions to format series fields.

label-format = javascript:keepAfterLast(tags.logger, '.')
#returns AuthenticationFilter
[series]
  [tags]
    logger = com.axibase.app.web.AuthenticationFilter
Chartlab Example
for m in metrics
  [series]
    label = @{keepAfterLast(m, '.')} 
    metric = @{m}
  endfor

Functions can be nested to apply multiple formats.

label-format = javascript:capitalize(replace(metric, '_', ' '))
#replace underscores with whitespace and capitalize all words
[series]
    metric = swap_space_used
    #swap_space_used -> Swap Space Used
Chartlab Example

Built-in string format functions:

keepAfter Removes part of the string before the first occurrence of the given substring.
keepAfterLast Removes part of the string before the last occurrence of the given substring.
keepBefore Removes part of the string that starts with the first occurrence of the given substring.
keepBeforeLast Removes part of the string that starts with the last occurrence of the given substring.
replace Replace all occurrences of the given string in the original string with another string.
capFirst Capitalize first word.
capitalize Capitalize all words.
lowerCase Convert to lower case.
upperCase Convert to upper case.
removeBeginning Removes the given substring from the beginning of the string.
removeEnding Removes the given substring from the end of the string.