Hint: Deselect Series in Widgets

When you have many overlapping series in a widget, it can be difficult to clearly see what is happening for a specific series.

This is especially true for Time Chart widgets. For example, when you are plotting a high number of clusters, hosts, or similar metrics that tend to cluster around the same Y-axis range, the visualization can be crowded:

Time Chart widget displaying multiple overlapping colored lines representing different series, making individual series difficult to distinguish.

Figure 200. Overlapping Series in a Time Chart Widget


To address the need of focusing on one individual series at a time:

  1. Press shift+click on a series item in the chart legend: this will turn off every other series and display that series alone.

  2. Click a second time on the same individual item: this will turn all series back on.

    Figure 201. Select and Deselect Series


This shortcut works for other widget types that displays multiple series, like Bar Chart for example.