Grafana: Support Candlestick charts for histograms

Hope to add more advanced chart display options after summer when I have will work full time on grafana

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Any word on new chard types? I'm also interested in candlestick charts.

this looks pretty neat, though i don't understand what it has to do with histograms.
note that if you get your series summarized by day, you basically can plot the same information, just styled a bit differently (through points/lines/areas whatever)

@Dieterbe yeah, I don't think they're related to histograms. OHLC Candlestick charts are widely used in financial markets. Supporting them in Grafana opens up yet a new use case.

For the example given (min max median) box plus are better, more generalised to statistics and more obvious in terms of the data series.
Candle stick charts tend to always refer to financial terms open close low and high and tend to relate as a serious.

+1 for box plots in one form or other

+1 for candle stick charts.
They might come from financial markets, but once you learn to read them you can use them for any time series data. Quite useful. I would replace charts where I plot first, last and median with OHLC in an instant.

👍 I agree with @netixen, we use them for performance comparisons.

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There appears to be a flot candlestick plugin available.

http://www.flotcharts.org/plugins/

I wonder how hard it would be to integrate... hmm...

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+1. I'd love to be able to write a datasource to interface with a financial exchange and to create graphs in Grafana to show OHLC candlestick graphs.

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I'd like to see candlesticks -we use a lot of "time to process" data so it would be good to have a "Min" / "Max" view over time

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any update on candle charts?

I'm confused. @ilgizar Is this still a standalone feature or included in the main build and just not in the documentation? Is it stable?

@bdonnahue I closed my PR, and designed this as separate plugin. https://github.com/ilgizar/ilgizar-candlestick-panel Is it beta version, but workful.

I think the groundwork needed for this this will also allow for adding confidence interval bands to line charts. Are there plans to absorb the linked plugin into the project?

Any news ?

@yati-sagade Candlestick charts may be not quite suitable for showing confidence interval bands. The latter one has probabilistic nature and represents estimated error because of incompleteness of data while the true value is uncertain.
Candlestick bars on the other side are used to represent distribution of _true_ vaules during each interval, so they don't have probabilistic nature.

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Any updates? Very useful and long-awaited feature!

Maybe we can hope to have this feature with this work ? -> https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/21835