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Simple Log Service:Overview of visualization

Last Updated:Aug 04, 2023

Simple Log Service provides the visualization feature that displays query and analysis results in charts. You can select different types of charts based on your business requirements and save the charts to dashboards, which are refreshed in real time. In addition, you can connect Simple Log Service to external visualization tools.

Visualization methods

The following table describes the visualization methods that are supported.

Visualization method

Description

Dashboard

A dashboard provides real-time data analysis results. You can view multiple charts that are generated based on query and analysis results on a dashboard. When you open or refresh a dashboard, the query statement for each chart on the dashboard is automatically executed.

Chart

A chart displays the rendered result of data that is returned by query statements. Simple Log Service provides multiple types of charts, including tables, line charts, and column charts. Simple Log Service provides two versions of charts: Pro and standard.

  • Pro: This version can display the results of multiple query statements and allows you to configure personalized display settings for the results of each query statement. For more information, see Overview of charts (Pro).

  • Standard: You can upgrade this version to the Pro version with a few clicks. For more information, see Chart overview.

Important Before you can obtain a chart based on log data and add the chart to a dashboard, you must store the data in a Standard Logstore. For more information, see Manage a Logstore.

External visualization tool

You can connect Simple Log Service to external visualization tools, such as DataV, Grafana, and Tableau, to display data on dashboards.

Limits

The following table describes the limits of the visualization feature.

Visualization method

Description

Dashboard

You can create up to 100 dashboards for a project.

Chart

You can add up to 200 charts to a dashboard.

Operations

The following table describes the operations that are related to the visualization feature.

Visualization method

Operation

Description

Dashboard

Create a dashboard

You can create a dashboard for real-time data analysis.

Manage a dashboard in display mode

You can view all charts that are added to a dashboard in display mode. By default, dashboards are in display mode. You can perform the following operations on a dashboard in display mode:

Manage a dashboard in edit mode

You can edit a dashboard in edit mode. You can perform the following operations on a dashboard in edit mode:

Chart layouts

You can adjust the chart layout on a dashboard.

Play dashboards

You can configure the dashboard playlist feature.

Import a dashboard

You can copy a dashboard across projects by using the dashboard import feature.

Import a Grafana dashboard to Simple Log Service

You can import a Grafana dashboard to Simple Log Service.

Export a Simple Log Service dashboard to Grafana

You can export a Simple Log Service dashboard to Grafana.

Subscribe to a dashboard

You can subscribe to dashboards in Simple Log Service. After you subscribe to a dashboard, Simple Log Service renders the dashboard into an image on a regular basis and sends the images to specified recipients by using emails or DingTalk group messages.

Add a filter

You can add a filter to a dashboard to filter data or replace variables for the query statements of charts on the dashboard.

Embed console pages and share log data

You can view dashboards in the Simple Log Service console. You can also embed dashboard pages into your website. This way, you can view and analyze data in a more flexible manner.

Chart (Pro)

Add charts to a dashboard

You can add charts (Pro) to a dashboard.

Configure query statements

You can use a chart (Pro) to display the results of multiple query statements.

Configure a data conversion rule

You can configure a data conversion rule to process the results of query statements.

Configure chart attributes

You can configure the attributes for a chart (Pro).

Configure a drill-down event

You can configure a drill-down event for a chart (Pro) to analyze data from a finer-grained dimension.

Chart

Add a chart to a dashboard

You can add charts to a dashboard.

Configure chart attributes

You can configure the attributes for a chart.

Configure a drill-down event

You can configure a drill-down event for a chart to analyze data from a finer-grained dimension.

External visualization tool

Connect Log Service with DataV

You can connect Simple Log Service to DataV to display data on DataV dashboards.

Connect Simple Log Service to Grafana

You can connect Simple Log Service to Grafana to display data on Grafana dashboards.