Change axis display

This section explains how to use Time series field options to control the display of axes in the visualization and illustrates what the axis options do.

Use the following field settings to refine how your axes display.

Some field options will not affect the visualization until you click outside of the field option box you are editing or press Enter.

Select the placement of the Y-axis.

Grafana automatically assigns Y-axis to the series. When there are two or more series with different units, then Grafana assigns the left axis to the first unit and right to the following units.

Left

Display all Y-axes on the right side.

Hidden

Hide the Y-axes.

Label

Set a Y-axis text label.

If you have more than one Y-axis, then you can give assign different labels in the Override tab.

Set a fixed width of the axis. By default, Grafana dynamically calculates the width of an axis.

Soft min and soft max

Set a Soft min or soft max option for better control of Y-axis limits. By default, Grafana sets the range for the Y-axis automatically based on the dataset.

Soft min and soft max settings can prevent blips from turning into mountains when the data is mostly flat, and hard min or max derived from standard min and max field options can prevent intermittent spikes from flattening useful detail by clipping the spikes past a defined point.

You can set standard min/max options to define hard limits of the Y-axis. For more information, refer to Standard field options.

Set the scale to use for the Y-axis values.

Use scale divided into equal parts.

Logarithmic

Axis examples

For examples, refer to the Grafana Play dashboard .