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In Checkmk, this is done fully automatically, and you see "human readable values"“human-readable values”.
For Grafana, this has to be set in your Dashboard. In this example, we'll look at the settings for the network interfaces.
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- Open Grafana, create a dashboard, and add your elements, in this case, it is "Interface 2" “Interface 2” of the monitored host "mysite01"“mysite01”
. - On the right side, you have "Standard Options"“Standard Options”. Open it and click in the empty field just under "Unit"“Unit”
. - Bandwidth might not appear in this dialogue, so type in bits. Grafana will autocomplete, and you can choose your measurement unit:
. - For Interface Banthwith, you might take "bits“bits/sec(SI) so the graph looks good:
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For comparison, the same metrics in Checkmk
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