Honeycomb

Introduction

Sometimes called a hexagonal chart or hexbin map, a honeycomb chart provides for more efficient data aggregation when binning data and is the most efficient division of 2D data space. It can also help eliminate data biases, such as the Alaska effect.

Example:

HONEYCOMB visualization for Metric Tile

Text value display for resource and service availability

For the system_resource_availability_state and system_service_map_availability_state metrics, the status is displayed as both label (text) and numeric value. The following are the values:

Up
Down
Unknown
Degraded

By default, the status is shown as a text value. To view the status as a numeric value, clear the Show as label selection in the Visualization tab.

The text status display option is available for List, Gauge, and Honeycomb visualizations only.

system_resource_availability_state

The system_resource_availability_state metric monitors the availability of the resources and displays the status as a numeric or text value. The following are the available values: