# Cant resize graphs - limited to auto or max 6 wide?

**URL:** <https://discourse.nodered.org/t/cant-resize-graphs-limited-to-auto-or-max-6-wide/11082>\
**Category:** Dashboard\
**Created:** [13 May 2019 19:56 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/cant-resize-graphs-limited-to-auto-or-max-6-wide/11082 "2019-05-13T19:56:15Z")\
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**Author:** ![nodecentral](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/nodecentral/32/10432_2.png) [@nodecentral](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/nodecentral)\
**Post date:** [13 May 2019 19:56 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/cant-resize-graphs-limited-to-auto-or-max-6-wide/11082/1 "2019-05-13T19:56:15Z")

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Hi

I’ve started to capture frequent energy readings and I’m trying to graph them, over an hour, day, week etc, but I can’t seem to make the graphs appear wider ? If I go in to the settings, and try to change it away from auto, the max width I can do seems to just be six wide?

Any ideas what I’m missing ?

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/uploads/nodered/original/2X/8/8f765771383d8bb5d2565d0a73d5c10e49504384.jpeg)

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**Author:** ![hotNipi](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/hotnipi/32/383_2.png) [@hotNipi](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/hotNipi)\
**Post date:** [13 May 2019 20:02 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/cant-resize-graphs-limited-to-auto-or-max-6-wide/11082/2 "2019-05-13T20:02:48Z")

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Size is limited by group node width  
 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/uploads/nodered/original/2X/2/2fa488e621eb46008b926f21dd03f63974545e2d.png)

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**Author:** ![nodecentral](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/nodecentral/32/10432_2.png) [@nodecentral](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/nodecentral)\
**Post date:** [15 May 2019 21:14 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/cant-resize-graphs-limited-to-auto-or-max-6-wide/11082/3 "2019-05-15T21:14:12Z")

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Thanks @hotNipi

I’ve noticed that these graphs take a very time to load, and I’ve noticed connection errors after a while. Do you (or anyone reading this) know the best way for frequent data like hoke energy readings to be processed ?

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**Author:** ![dceejay](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/dceejay/32/38_2.png) [@dceejay](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/dceejay)\
**Post date:** [15 May 2019 21:25 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/cant-resize-graphs-limited-to-auto-or-max-6-wide/11082/4 "2019-05-15T21:25:44Z")

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It can depend a lot on how much data you are asking them to hold and process and how fast the data is arriving. Most charts about 6 "units" wide are only about 300 pixels so showing 1000s of datapoints into that space is always asking for trouble. Likewise data arriving multiple times a second means lots of shifting data around even if being dropped from the end of the array. You may need to sample/filter your data in order to optimise it for display.

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**Author:** ![nodecentral](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/nodecentral/32/10432_2.png) [@nodecentral](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/nodecentral)\
**Post date:** [17 May 2019 20:13 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/cant-resize-graphs-limited-to-auto-or-max-6-wide/11082/5 "2019-05-17T20:13:59Z")

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A single measurement is arriving approximately every second, and with the graphs I’m looking to show the trend of those measurements over 1hr, 12hrs, 24hrs and a week.

I’ve enlarged the graph size, basically doubling the width from 6 to 12.

What would be the best way to manage this amount and frequency of data ?

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**Author:** ![dceejay](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/dceejay/32/38_2.png) [@dceejay](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/dceejay)\
**Post date:** [17 May 2019 20:18 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/cant-resize-graphs-limited-to-auto-or-max-6-wide/11082/6 "2019-05-17T20:18:15Z")

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to be honest I would you look at something like Grafana for handling this much data.  
(unless you are prepared to spend a lot of time pre filtering/accumulating data yourself before sending to dashboard)

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**Author:** ![Steve-Mcl](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/steve-mcl/32/4826_2.png) [@Steve-Mcl](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Steve-Mcl)\
**Post date:** [17 May 2019 20:18 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/cant-resize-graphs-limited-to-auto-or-max-6-wide/11082/7 "2019-05-17T20:18:34Z")

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Why plot every second? Why not every 5s for the hour graph, every minute for the 12h & 24h

If your concerned about missing spikes etc, I would probably suggest you plot raw on the 1h and min,max,avg on the 12&24h

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**Author:** ![Colin](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/colin/32/17040_2.png) [@Colin](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Colin)\
**Post date:** [18 May 2019 20:11 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/cant-resize-graphs-limited-to-auto-or-max-6-wide/11082/8 "2019-05-18T20:11:06Z")

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I would definitely suggest using Influx and Grafana for this.

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**Author:** ![nodecentral](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/nodecentral/32/10432_2.png) [@nodecentral](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/nodecentral)\
**Post date:** [18 May 2019 23:54 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/cant-resize-graphs-limited-to-auto-or-max-6-wide/11082/9 "2019-05-18T23:54:07Z")

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Ok, thanks i’l give those two a go..

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**Author:** ![nodecentral](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/nodecentral/32/10432_2.png) [@nodecentral](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/nodecentral)\
**Post date:** [22 May 2019 19:19 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/cant-resize-graphs-limited-to-auto-or-max-6-wide/11082/10 "2019-05-22T19:19:08Z")

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Thanks all -

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/uploads/nodered/original/2X/1/10691fe41314c8dfc4fdccd7ae6ae4eb09293853.jpeg) I have successfully moved to influxdb and Grafana