Analytics & Charts

Explore datasets and build bar, line, pie and candle charts.

Analytics reads the dataset produced by the latest successful execution. You can inspect raw rows, then build charts that share the same filters and ordering rules.

Connect a dataset

1
Open Analytics
Visit Analytics.
2
Choose a pipeline
Only pipelines that have completed at least one successful run appear in the dropdown - a dataset stays available after a later run fails, because the materialised rows are still there.
3
Connect
Select Explore. The first 500 rows load immediately.

Table view

The table view is your sanity check before building charts.

Free-text search across every column.
Click any header to sort; click again to reverse.
Rows-per-page selector with 5, 10, 20 and 50 options.
Sticky headers keep column names visible while you scroll.

Chart types

When to use what

Field	Type	Description
Bar	string	Comparing a measure across categories — revenue by region, orders by product.
Line	string	Change over time — daily signups, weekly throughput. Best with a date or ordered X axis.
Pie	string	Share of a whole with few categories. Legends aggregate beyond eight slices into Other.
Donut	string	Same as pie but with the total displayed in the centre. Preferred when the total matters.
Candlestick	string	OHLC financial series. Requires date, open, high, low and close fields.

Configuring a chart

Adding a chart opens a configuration panel with a live preview. The preview sits beside the form on a laptop and stacks above it on a tablet or phone, so you always see the result before saving.

Field	Type	Description
Chart title	required	Shown as the card heading.
Description	string	Optional subtitle clarifying the metric.
Chart type	string	Bar, Line, Pie, Donut or Candlestick.
X-axis	string	Category or date field. For candlesticks this is the date.
Y-axis	string	Numeric measure. Replaced by OHLC fields for candlesticks.
Aggregate	string	How rows sharing the X value are combined - Sum, Average, Number of rows, Minimum, Maximum, or None. Applied first, before sorting. Not offered for candlesticks, which plot four raw price columns.
Order / Sort by	string	Sorting applied after grouping and before the row limit.
Take / Row limit	string	Keep the first or last N rows after sorting. Sum plus a descending sort on the measure is what produces a top-N list.
Width	string	Share of the row: 35%, 50%, 65% or 100%.

Dashboard layout

Charts are arranged in rows. A row can hold any combination of widths, as long as the total does not exceed 100%. Empty space in a row shows a dashed add chart tile, so you can fill a half-empty row without leaving the dashboard.

Row combinations

100%                    one wide chart
50% + 50%               two equal charts
35% + 65%               one narrow, one wide
35% + 65% (full row)    add tiles disappear when the row is full

Below the md breakpoint every row stacks to a single full-width chart
so tablets and phones stay readable.

Responsive charts

Charts are sized by the card that holds them, not by a fixed pixel box, so the same dashboard works on a phone and on a laptop:

Field	Type	Description
Phone	string	Charts render at 240px, then the dashboard scrolls normally. Legends move below a donut instead of squeezing beside it.
Tablet	string	Charts grow to 280px, and the rail collapses to an overlay drawer so the full width stays available for the plot.
Laptop and up	string	Charts grow to 320px and rows keep their declared widths, which is where a dense dashboard becomes genuinely useful.

Every chart also carries a single accessible name — for example “Bar chart: revenue by region” — so screen readers announce what the chart shows instead of reading an unlabelled graphic.

Chart best practices

One question per chart — split compound metrics rather than stacking them.
Normalise dates before charting so the X axis sorts chronologically.
Keep category counts under about twelve; aggregate the rest.
Use the row limit rather than trying to render thousands of points.
Prefer donut over pie when the total is meaningful to the reader.

Last reviewed October 2026.