As of InlfuxDB 1.7.8 Flux greatly improved handling of nil values and now allows having empty cells. But Grafana's Table has problems with it:
1) All empty values are rendered as NaNs, which is incorrect, since real NaNs appear from cases like dividing by zero and is generally a bad sign that requires attention.
2) Sorting table is completely broken. Take a look at the same table column in Chronograf and Grafana:
As of InlfuxDB 1.7.8 Flux greatly improved handling of nil values and now allows having empty cells. But Grafana's Table has problems with it: 1) All empty values are rendered as
![image](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/871528/66199517-734f1400-e6a7-11e9-92e5-5c0a1ca8933b.png)
NaN
s, which is incorrect, since realNaN
s appear from cases like dividing by zero and is generally a bad sign that requires attention. 2) Sorting table is completely broken. Take a look at the same table column in Chronograf and Grafana: