State Timeline: Show Duration in chart

[linjmeyer]

What would you like to be added:

I would like an option to show the duration in the bar of the State Timeline chart. Currently this is visible when you hover:

It would be helpful to optionally add the duration so the bar was either "1 day" or both the value and duration "2 (1 day)".

Why is this needed:

In some cases when using the State Timeline, I am less worried about the value of the metric instead the duration that metric existed. Having that information ready without hovering will make the chart easier to read.

Thank you!

[leeoniya]

but "2 (1 day)" might make the value too long to render in your example without overlap, so may eliminate the label entirely.

maybe we can have an option to render just the duration since the value meaning may already be in the legend for discrete states.

[linjmeyer]

I'm good with either personally. I'm playing with the State Timeline and I've found it to be very useful, but I have found a lot of situations where the duration of some metric is a few seconds or minutes and even a simple value like "1" is too large, I think it's unavoidable depending on the data and how far out you need to zoom.

but yes in my use case, my labels to the left of the bars already have the contextual info I need (ie: name of a pod in kubernetes) so the "1" is of no use. Thanks for the quick reply.

[dprokop]

maybe we can have an option to render just the duration since the value meaning may already be in the legend for discrete states.

+1

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