Displaying Gaps in a time-series line chart

[kennethdnguyen]

I am submitting a...

• Feature request

charts version:

v10

Issue description

We are trying to display time-series data in a line chart, and it’s possible that we won’t have data for every point in time for a given dataset. Right now, the chart just handles null values as 0 and connects the dots, but we would like to have those gaps displayed visually as gaps instead.

Steps to produce the issue

Change one of the values of data to have a null value, and then the line chart will continue to connect the dots using the value 0.

Current behavior

Expected behavior

[theiliad]

Thanks @kennethdnguyen.

• You mentioned time-series but your x-axis labels are discrete labels. Just want to confirm that you're looking to do this in a time-series graph?
• This will no longer be a continuous scale. Could you elaborate on the cases where you'd want this sort of behavior?
• Do you already do this using another tool? Would like to see more examples of the functionality if you have any...

[theiliad]

I played around with this locally, is this what you're hoping to achieve?

[kennethdnguyen]

@theiliad Sorry for the very late response. To answer your questions, yes we want to do it in a time series graph.

The latest screenshot you have attached is definitely what we want to achieve yes. It looks great. Thank you for attaching the screenshot of what you have worked on locally!

Another tool we used in the past to display the data was Kibana. This is what it looks like with the gap in the data.

[theiliad]

This has been addressed in #299, and will be implemented in Q1

[theiliad]

Closed by #464