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    <title>article Pop-up legend frustrations in Wavefront by VMware Documents</title>
    <link>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/Wavefront-by-VMware-Documents/Pop-up-legend-frustrations/ta-p/2772859</link>
    <description>&lt;HTML&gt;&lt;HEAD&gt;&lt;/HEAD&gt;&lt;BODY&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;STRONG style="font-size: 26.0pt; font-family: 'Helvetica',sans-serif;"&gt;Pop-up legend frustrations&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;SPAN style="font-family: 'Helvetica',sans-serif;"&gt;Version 2&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;SPAN style="font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: 'Helvetica',sans-serif; color: #787878;"&gt;Created by &lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;A href="https://community.wavefront.com/people/phil_frost"&gt;&lt;SPAN style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #535353;"&gt;phil_frost&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/A&gt;&lt;SPAN style="font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: 'Helvetica',sans-serif; color: #787878;"&gt; on Aug 9, 2016 7:16 AM. Last modified by &lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;A href="https://community.wavefront.com/people/phil_frost"&gt;&lt;SPAN style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #535353;"&gt;phil_frost&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/A&gt;&lt;SPAN style="font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: 'Helvetica',sans-serif; color: #787878;"&gt; on Aug 9, 2016 7:22 AM.&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;SPAN style="font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: 'Helvetica',sans-serif;"&gt;Click to view larger image&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;SPAN style="font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: 'Helvetica',sans-serif;"&gt;The legend is one of the most frustrating parts of the Wavefront interface for me. Even after weeks of using Wavefront I still constantly find it in the way. It pops up in random places, more often than not over what I want to see. It has a ton of information in it beyond the two things I care about, the time and the values for each metric.&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;SPAN style="font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: 'Helvetica',sans-serif;"&gt; &lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;SPAN style="font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: 'Helvetica',sans-serif;"&gt;Can the Wavefront legend just be more like Grafana?&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;SPAN style="font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: 'Helvetica',sans-serif;"&gt; &lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;OL style="list-style-type: decimal;"&gt;&lt;LI&gt;&lt;SPAN style="font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: 'Helvetica',sans-serif;"&gt;1&amp;nbsp; &lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN style="font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: 'Helvetica',sans-serif;"&gt;Get rid of all the redundant and irrelevant information&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/LI&gt;&lt;LI&gt;&lt;SPAN style="font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: 'Helvetica',sans-serif;"&gt;2&amp;nbsp; &lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN style="font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: 'Helvetica',sans-serif;"&gt;Make it smaller&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/LI&gt;&lt;LI&gt;&lt;SPAN style="font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: 'Helvetica',sans-serif;"&gt;3&amp;nbsp; &lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN style="font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: 'Helvetica',sans-serif;"&gt;Follow the mouse pointer so that:&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;OL style="list-style-type: decimal;"&gt;&lt;LI&gt;&lt;SPAN style="font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: 'Helvetica',sans-serif;"&gt;1 &lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN style="font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: 'Helvetica',sans-serif;"&gt;It pops up in a predictable place&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/LI&gt;&lt;LI&gt;&lt;SPAN style="font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: 'Helvetica',sans-serif;"&gt;2 &lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN style="font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: 'Helvetica',sans-serif;"&gt;It's easier to vitually follow the pointer and the legend at the same time&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/LI&gt;&lt;LI&gt;&lt;SPAN style="font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: 'Helvetica',sans-serif;"&gt;3 &lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN style="font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: 'Helvetica',sans-serif;"&gt;It conforms to the expected behavior of "to get hovering things out of the way, get the mouse pointer out of the way"&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/LI&gt;&lt;/OL&gt;&lt;/LI&gt;&lt;/OL&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;A href="https://communities.vmware.com/legacyfs/online/1846_2016-08-09-093527_7080x2880_scrot.png"&gt;&lt;STRONG style="color: #262626; font-size: 15pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;2016-08-09-093527_7080x2880_scrot.png&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/A&gt; &lt;SPAN style="font-size: 12.5pt; font-family: 'Helvetica',sans-serif; color: #787878;"&gt;(168.1 K)&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;A href="https://community.wavefront.com/servlet/JiveServlet/previewBody/1202-102-2-1846/2016-08-09-093527_7080x2880_scrot.png"&gt;&lt;SPAN style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #535353;"&gt;View&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/A&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;A href="https://communities.vmware.com/legacyfs/online/1846_2016-08-09-093527_7080x2880_scrot.png"&gt;&lt;SPAN style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #535353;"&gt;Download&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;SPAN style="font-family: 'Helvetica',sans-serif; color: #787878;"&gt;45 Views&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;SPAN style="font-family: 'Helvetica',sans-serif; color: #787878;"&gt;Categories:&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;SPAN style="font-family: 'Helvetica',sans-serif; color: #787878;"&gt;Tags:&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;SPAN style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: 'Helvetica',sans-serif; color: #878787;"&gt;Average User Rating: No ratings (0 ratings)&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;SPAN style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: 'Helvetica',sans-serif; color: #878787;"&gt;Average User Rating&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;SPAN style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: 'Helvetica',sans-serif; color: #878787;"&gt;No ratings&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;SPAN style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: 'Helvetica',sans-serif; color: #878787;"&gt;(0 ratings)&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;STRONG style="font-size: 18.0pt; font-family: 'Helvetica',sans-serif;"&gt;Comments&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P style="margin-left: .5in; text-indent: -.5in;"&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;SPAN style="font-size: 15.0pt; font-family: 'Helvetica',sans-serif;"&gt;0 Comments&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/BODY&gt;&lt;/HTML&gt;</description>
    <pubDate>Thu, 27 Jul 2017 21:15:23 GMT</pubDate>
    <dc:creator>Klausj</dc:creator>
    <dc:date>2017-07-27T21:15:23Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Pop-up legend frustrations</title>
      <link>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/Wavefront-by-VMware-Documents/Pop-up-legend-frustrations/ta-p/2772859</link>
      <description>&lt;HTML&gt;&lt;HEAD&gt;&lt;/HEAD&gt;&lt;BODY&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;STRONG style="font-size: 26.0pt; font-family: 'Helvetica',sans-serif;"&gt;Pop-up legend frustrations&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;SPAN style="font-family: 'Helvetica',sans-serif;"&gt;Version 2&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;SPAN style="font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: 'Helvetica',sans-serif; color: #787878;"&gt;Created by &lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;A href="https://community.wavefront.com/people/phil_frost"&gt;&lt;SPAN style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #535353;"&gt;phil_frost&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/A&gt;&lt;SPAN style="font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: 'Helvetica',sans-serif; color: #787878;"&gt; on Aug 9, 2016 7:16 AM. Last modified by &lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;A href="https://community.wavefront.com/people/phil_frost"&gt;&lt;SPAN style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #535353;"&gt;phil_frost&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/A&gt;&lt;SPAN style="font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: 'Helvetica',sans-serif; color: #787878;"&gt; on Aug 9, 2016 7:22 AM.&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;SPAN style="font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: 'Helvetica',sans-serif;"&gt;Click to view larger image&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;SPAN style="font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: 'Helvetica',sans-serif;"&gt;The legend is one of the most frustrating parts of the Wavefront interface for me. Even after weeks of using Wavefront I still constantly find it in the way. It pops up in random places, more often than not over what I want to see. It has a ton of information in it beyond the two things I care about, the time and the values for each metric.&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;SPAN style="font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: 'Helvetica',sans-serif;"&gt; &lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;SPAN style="font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: 'Helvetica',sans-serif;"&gt;Can the Wavefront legend just be more like Grafana?&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;SPAN style="font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: 'Helvetica',sans-serif;"&gt; &lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;OL style="list-style-type: decimal;"&gt;&lt;LI&gt;&lt;SPAN style="font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: 'Helvetica',sans-serif;"&gt;1&amp;nbsp; &lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN style="font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: 'Helvetica',sans-serif;"&gt;Get rid of all the redundant and irrelevant information&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/LI&gt;&lt;LI&gt;&lt;SPAN style="font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: 'Helvetica',sans-serif;"&gt;2&amp;nbsp; &lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN style="font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: 'Helvetica',sans-serif;"&gt;Make it smaller&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/LI&gt;&lt;LI&gt;&lt;SPAN style="font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: 'Helvetica',sans-serif;"&gt;3&amp;nbsp; &lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN style="font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: 'Helvetica',sans-serif;"&gt;Follow the mouse pointer so that:&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;OL style="list-style-type: decimal;"&gt;&lt;LI&gt;&lt;SPAN style="font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: 'Helvetica',sans-serif;"&gt;1 &lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN style="font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: 'Helvetica',sans-serif;"&gt;It pops up in a predictable place&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/LI&gt;&lt;LI&gt;&lt;SPAN style="font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: 'Helvetica',sans-serif;"&gt;2 &lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN style="font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: 'Helvetica',sans-serif;"&gt;It's easier to vitually follow the pointer and the legend at the same time&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/LI&gt;&lt;LI&gt;&lt;SPAN style="font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: 'Helvetica',sans-serif;"&gt;3 &lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN style="font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: 'Helvetica',sans-serif;"&gt;It conforms to the expected behavior of "to get hovering things out of the way, get the mouse pointer out of the way"&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/LI&gt;&lt;/OL&gt;&lt;/LI&gt;&lt;/OL&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;A href="https://communities.vmware.com/legacyfs/online/1846_2016-08-09-093527_7080x2880_scrot.png"&gt;&lt;STRONG style="color: #262626; font-size: 15pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;2016-08-09-093527_7080x2880_scrot.png&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/A&gt; &lt;SPAN style="font-size: 12.5pt; font-family: 'Helvetica',sans-serif; color: #787878;"&gt;(168.1 K)&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;A href="https://community.wavefront.com/servlet/JiveServlet/previewBody/1202-102-2-1846/2016-08-09-093527_7080x2880_scrot.png"&gt;&lt;SPAN style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #535353;"&gt;View&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/A&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;A href="https://communities.vmware.com/legacyfs/online/1846_2016-08-09-093527_7080x2880_scrot.png"&gt;&lt;SPAN style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #535353;"&gt;Download&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;SPAN style="font-family: 'Helvetica',sans-serif; color: #787878;"&gt;45 Views&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;SPAN style="font-family: 'Helvetica',sans-serif; color: #787878;"&gt;Categories:&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;SPAN style="font-family: 'Helvetica',sans-serif; color: #787878;"&gt;Tags:&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;SPAN style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: 'Helvetica',sans-serif; color: #878787;"&gt;Average User Rating: No ratings (0 ratings)&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;SPAN style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: 'Helvetica',sans-serif; color: #878787;"&gt;Average User Rating&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;SPAN style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: 'Helvetica',sans-serif; color: #878787;"&gt;No ratings&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;SPAN style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: 'Helvetica',sans-serif; color: #878787;"&gt;(0 ratings)&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;STRONG style="font-size: 18.0pt; font-family: 'Helvetica',sans-serif;"&gt;Comments&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P style="margin-left: .5in; text-indent: -.5in;"&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;SPAN style="font-size: 15.0pt; font-family: 'Helvetica',sans-serif;"&gt;0 Comments&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/BODY&gt;&lt;/HTML&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 27 Jul 2017 21:15:23 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Klausj</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2017-07-27T21:15:23Z</dc:date>
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