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
NaNs, which is incorrect, since realNaNs 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: