Datadog - creating a stacked bar char

Monitoring and Observability Datadog
#1

Hey all! How can I create a stacked bar chart? (not column). And if I can’t ask that here, where should I ask?

I want create a stacked bar chart in datadog that shows one number as a percentage of another, e.g. where the vertical axis is a list of clients and the horizontal axis is the total number of requests from that client, inside of which is the total number of failed/errored requests (this image was taken from Google, ignore the data on it, just trying to illustrate the type of chart I’m after)

I’m new to DD and I assumed you could pick a chart, like in Excel or Google Sheets and just plug whatever data you want in to it, but I’m having a bit of trouble with that workflow in DD

#2

https://docs.datadoghq.com/dashboards/widgets/timeseries/#display-options

> Graphs can be displayed as lines, areas, and bars.
That sounds like a bar chart, with the x-y axis flipped (don’t think you can do that) - is that your question?

#3

Hi, yep a column chart is where the data goes upwards and a bar chart is where it goes horizontally.

I also want to show a number as a percentage of another, hence the ‘stacked’ bar chart ie, 100 total requests with 70 failed

#4

> a column chart is where the data goes upwards and a bar chart is where it goes horizontally.
indeed :slightly_smiling_face:

> the ‘stacked’ bar chart
I think there’s an option for that, but you may also find the piechart or TreeMap to be interesting for you.

#5

Thanks for your suggestion however whilst the timeseries widget looks like bar chart, it looks like it’s possibly hardcoded to be time-based rather than being able to plug whatever data you want in?

#6

Are you wanting to graph arbitrary data? DataDog is not google sheets :slightly_smiling_face:

#7

Please provide more specific info of what you’re trying to do so that someone more familiar can help you.

#8

To get suitable help I suggest to first focus on the data, not the visual aesthetics you’re hoping to replicate.