Technical Blog Post
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No thresholding options for Status Gauge?
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Did you just hit a scenario where the thresholding options are not available while configuring your Status Gauge?
Status Gauge has a special affinity towards a value which is of type ‘Status’. If you see the description of the mandatory parameter it says “Numeric Value/Status expected”.
Status object is a little enhanced version of a numeric value provided by the data provider. Providing a Status object is optional for a data provider, so not all providers or datasets may have Status objects. The Status object holds some additional information such as the current status (Normal, Minor, Critical etc), image details for the current status etc apart from the numeric data.
Since the status information is already present in the selected value, Status Gauge acts smartly and pulls out the details from the object itself and hence does not require you to configure the thresholds.
So if you don’t see the Thresholding options then do not worry! The status will be extracted from the configured value and the widget continues to works as it should.
Note:
- Only Status Gauge treats the status object differently, other gauges do not.
- The status object type may or may not be available from the dataset you selected
- User needs to have appropriate privileges to edit any dashboard widget.
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