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Metric Chart Pane Buttons
On the All Metrics page, you can use the buttons of the Metric Chart pane to customize the appearance of
charts, and add or delete charts.
Global Control Buttons
These buttons control the appearance of all graphs that you open in the Metric Chart pane.
Button Tooltip Icon Description
Separate graphs by period Splits the current metrics graph in separate graphs by periods based on your
selection in the time and date widget.
Show/hide Y-axis Displays or hides the Y axis of the graph to display metric values.
Show/hide metric line Displays or hides the line that connects the data points in the metric graph.
Show/hide trend line Displays or hides the line that represents the trend of the currently selected metric
in the graph.
Show 24-hour dynamic
thresholds
Displays or hides the calculated dynamic threshold values for a 24-hour period in
the graph.
Show entire period dynamic
thresholds
Displays or hides the calculated dynamic threshold values for the entire
monitoring period in the graph.
Show/hide anomalies Displays or hides the anomalies that occurred during the selected period in the
graph.
Retrieve complete metric
values
In zoom mode, displays the values of the selected metric when you move the
mouse pointer over the graph.
Enable X-axis zoom Allows you to enlarge the selected area of the graph only on the X axis while the Y
axis remains static.
Enable Y-axis zoom Allows you to enlarge the selected area of the graph only on the Y axis while the X
axis remains static.
Zoom to fit Resizes the charts so the entire graphs for all selected periods fit in the chart area.
All previous zooms are discarded.
Zoom Y-axis to dynamic
thresholds
Resizes the Y axis of the metric chart so that the highest and the lowest values on
the axis are the highest and the lowest values of the dynamic threshold calculated
for this metric.
Compress Y-axis Shortens the graph.
Zoom all graphs together Resizes all metric graphs that are open in the Metric Chart pane.
Enter zoom mode Enables resizing of the metric graphs on both axis Y and axis X.
Enter pan mode When in zoom mode, allows you to drag the enlarged section of the graph around
to view higher, lower, earlier, or later values of the metric.
Show value on point Enables metric value tooltips so that they appear when you point the graph with
the mouse pointer.
Refresh Reloads all graphs in the Metric Chart.
Turn auto refresh on/off Activates or deactivates the auto refresh option for metric charts.
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