Metric Labels
The Metric Label section within the configuration of Performance tiles and VMware tiles allows you to specify metric units, which are then shown on the y-axis and hover value.
While the units are usually not returned with the data, the metric name often specifies the units, such as % or MB.
You should select the label that matches how the data is being returned. For example, if the data being returned is in MB then select Megabytes.
The other option allows you to specify a Custom Metric Label, such as "pages/sec" or "count".
Scaling up
When Bytes, Megabytes or Seconds are selected SquaredUp will 'scale up' the label to MB, GB, minutes or hours as appropriate.
The Bar graph below shows a figure of 1675:
In this case, the metric name 'Memory - Available MBytes' tells me that this figure is returned in MB.
When the Metric Label is changed to Megabytes SquaredUp shows 1.64GB:
This is 1675 divided by 1024 and rounded to two decimal places to convert MB into GB.
FAQs
Why are some values shown as zero?
Very small values may show as zero, if Number Formatting is set to use Decimals for small numbers. See Time and Formats Settings
If Number Formatting is set to SI Units then very small values will use m (milli) or µ (micro), see Understanding the figures on Performance graphs.
With the Metric Label set to percent, the very small values are rounded up to two decimal places, and therefore they can all show as 0.00%. To show the value, you can either:
- Use the Value Formatter in the Label section to specify
{{value}}so the value is not rounded up. - Or, change the Number Formatting to SI Units (System > Administration > Customization > Time and Formats) and change the Metric Label from Percent to Other.