# Grafana integrated graphs -\> units

**URL:** <https://community.icinga.com/t/grafana-integrated-graphs-units/6889>\
**Category:** Icinga Web Modules\
**Tags:** grafana\
**Created:** [March 10, 2021, 10:15am UTC](https://community.icinga.com/t/grafana-integrated-graphs-units/6889 "2021-03-10T10:15:22Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![danielbierstedt](https://community.icinga.com/user_avatar/community.icinga.com/danielbierstedt/32/945_2.png) [@danielbierstedt](https://community.icinga.com/u/danielbierstedt)\
**Post date:** [March 10, 2021, 10:15am UTC](https://community.icinga.com/t/grafana-integrated-graphs-units/6889/1 "2021-03-10T10:15:23Z")

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I am creating graphs using grafana and the grafana module. The script outpput looks like this:

./check\_isilon -t data\_sum -i STORAGE-HOST  
Data sum on Isilon STORAGE-HOST: Oracle: 4.59TB, ISP: 41.92TB, Veeam: 207.81TB|‘STORAGE-HOST ORA’=4.59TB;; ‘STORAGE-HOST ISP’=41.92TB;; ‘STORAGE-HOST Veeam’=207.81TB;;

As you see, the unit is TB. The graph, however translates that to Tri and Quadr on the left Y axis:

 ![image](https://community.icinga.com/uploads/default/original/2X/2/2c48d3aaad5d2ff0088fab48ae13b79b4406abde.png)

This is the performance data reported in the web interface:  
 ![image](https://community.icinga.com/uploads/default/original/2X/8/8f48601793d72d831789c056d2a6c7eb8f0d8c49.png)

You see, units are mixed. Whats going on here?

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**Author:** ![dgoetz](https://community.icinga.com/user_avatar/community.icinga.com/dgoetz/32/917_2.png) [@dgoetz](https://community.icinga.com/u/dgoetz)\
**Post date:** [March 10, 2021, 10:32am UTC](https://community.icinga.com/t/grafana-integrated-graphs-units/6889/2 "2021-03-10T10:32:28Z")

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Have you assigned a specific dashboard panel to the check? If no, the default panel has no unit set, if I remember correctly, so it will use normal numbers instead.

When you create your own dashboard or panel in grafana you can choose the unit and should get the result correctly displayed there. Then you can assign the panel to service name or check command in the Grafana module configuration so the module uses this one instead of the default one.

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**Author:** ![danielbierstedt](https://community.icinga.com/user_avatar/community.icinga.com/danielbierstedt/32/945_2.png) [@danielbierstedt](https://community.icinga.com/u/danielbierstedt)\
**Post date:** [March 10, 2021, 12:11pm UTC](https://community.icinga.com/t/grafana-integrated-graphs-units/6889/3 "2021-03-10T12:11:00Z")

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Thank you, I will try that. Crap, now I need to learn Grafana…

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**Author:** ![dgoetz](https://community.icinga.com/user_avatar/community.icinga.com/dgoetz/32/917_2.png) [@dgoetz](https://community.icinga.com/u/dgoetz)\
**Post date:** [March 10, 2021, 1:15pm UTC](https://community.icinga.com/t/grafana-integrated-graphs-units/6889/4 "2021-03-10T13:15:56Z")

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It will definitely be worth it, I have seen many fancy dashboards with very weird data sources I would not have imagined when using Grafana first and only for monitoring data.