Visualizations

Apica offers a variety of visualizations to support different use cases. This section of the documentation highlights the built-in visualizations, their options and typical usage.

In Data Explorer, each widget renders data using a visualization type. You can switch the visualization type from the widget UI, or set it in JSON (for example, chart_type: "line").

Use lowercase visualization type names (for example, table). Some legacy dashboards may still reference older casing (for example, Table).

Supported visualization types

Time series & charts

• line: Time series line chart for trends over time.

• bar: Compare categorical values using bars.

• area: Time series chart with filled area.

• scatter: Plot points to show correlation or distribution.

• barrace: Animated ranked bars for changes over time.

• bubble: Scatter chart with bubble size as a third dimension.

• boxplot: Summarize distributions using quartiles and whiskers.

• heatmap: Visualize magnitude using a two-dimensional color grid.

• sunburst: Visualize hierarchical data as concentric rings.

• funnel: Visualize drop-off across sequential stages.

• sankey: Visualize flows between nodes using weighted links.

Status & single-value

• status: Show state over time using color-coded tiles.

• counter: Show a single KPI as a big number.

• stat: Show a key number with optional sparkline.

• size: Show magnitude using size-based marks.

• gauge: Show a single metric against thresholds.

• disk: Show disk usage style values and capacity.

• datetime: Show a timestamp or date-time value.

• densestatus: Show dense state grids for many series.

• honeycomb: Show many values as a honeycomb of tiles.

• pie: Show proportions as slices of a whole.

Tables & lists

• table: Show raw results in a table.

• list: Show results as a simple list.

• pivottable: Pivot and aggregate data by rows and columns.

• searchtable: Table optimized for searching and filtering large result sets.

• details: Show a drill-down or key/value style details view.

JSON schema configuration

For JSON examples and widget configuration patterns, see Visualization.

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