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Suggestion for charts: Histogram
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Description
it would be useful to have a Histogram representation for charts.
For example, I am plotting a histogram of DNS response times for authoritative queries. From Dnstap I obtain a float value in milliseconds.
If I try to plot it as a scatter plot with dns_rtt as row, and, say, "count" as a metric, I see this:
Which, of course, is sadly useless.
I have found out that by rounding the milliseconds value to an integer I get a much more usable chart.
Seems that the line chart is better (scatter plot is a bit crazy for this, I admit)
But still if I use flat values for the round trip time:
It breaks badly.
## Why?
Histograms are a very useful chart. In my case I have mitigated the issue rounding the values to integer milliseconds and, being interested on observing a metric in the milliseconds (can go from < 10 to > 1000 in case of serious issues) it is enough. But in other cases this lack of a proper histogram can be a limitation.
If the number of events taken into account is large, a scatter chart with float numbers can give an enormous pounding to the web browser as well. :)
## Your Environment
* Graylog Version: Graylog 7.0.0beta3, relevant to 6.x and previous versions.
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