grafana / xk6-dashboard

A k6 extension that makes k6 metrics available on a web-based dashboard.
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Improving readability of panel color palette #150

Open oleiade opened 7 months ago

oleiade commented 7 months ago

Enhancement Description

As I use the dashboard feature more and more, I noticed that it's been hard to distinguish the different metrics inside a given panel, as the colors feel close to each other and need more contrast.

The problem from my perspective is it currently feels hard to derive insights from the content of a panel with too many metrics, as it is hard (for me at least) to distinguish the different graphs.

What I specifically mean is that as I look at: CleanShot 2024-01-22 at 10 47 42

or CleanShot 2024-01-22 at 10 47 34

I intuitively find it hard to distinguish each metric and derive insights from it visually. I have to pause and carefully search for the color I want.

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Keep in mind I'm no designer 🤞🏻

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bubafinder commented 6 months ago

Totally for it 🤞🏻

szkiba commented 6 months ago

I created the current color palette, the goal was to harmonize with the one used in the k6 cloud. I agree that it's not perfect, but I'm not a UX specialist :)

@2Steaks if you could find the time, it would be great if you could make a better palette to display the series...