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# Customize a chart

The Unisphere Performance Management application enables the user to gather, view, and analyze performance data to troubleshoot and optimize the storage systems.

## About this task

After you create a chart, there are several ways to customize that chart.

For more information about editing the information that is displayed on a chart, see Edit charts.

For more information about customizing the tabbed Charts view, see Customize the tabbed Charts view.

| NOTE: For large charts that have 24 legend items or more, a generated PM report does not display as a chart but instead displays as a table. This is for readability or legibility purposes.

## Steps

To customize a chart, hover over the chart, and do one or more of the following, depending on the options available:

- Change the chart type:
  1. Click Chart Type. The following options are available:
     - Timeline
     - Snapshot
     - Threshold
- Change the style of the chart:
  1. Click > Chart Style.
  2. Select a chart style. The types of chart styles available depend on the metrics that are selected for the current chart. Some or all the following chart styles are available:
     - Line
     - Bar
     - Area
     - Table
- Change the data format of the chart:
  1. Click Data Format. Select one or both of the following:
     - Average—Shows the average metric value for each metric in the table rows, for the session (hour). Average is the default.
     - Max—Shows the maximum metric value—the high water mark—for each metric in the table rows, for the session (hour).
     Selecting both formats on a chart displaying multiple metrics can make the chart less readable.
- Save the chart as an image:
  1. Click > Save as.
  2. Select JPG, PNG, or CSV.
  3. Specify a file name for the image file.
- Display a threshold on the chart (if thresholds have been set for a metric):
  1. Click > Display Thresholds.

  | NOTE: Threshold values are not displayed in table charts.

- Display service level data on the chart:
  1. Click > Display Service Level.
- Hide the chart legend:
  1. Click > Hide Legend.
- Show information about the chart:
  1. Click .
  2. To close the information pane, click .
- Maximize the chart:
  1. Click .
- Minimize the chart:
  1. Click .
- Restore a maximized chart to the default chart size:
  1. Click .
- Remove the chart:
  1. Click .
- Change the zoom level of a chart:
  1. Select an area on a chart to zoom into that area.
  2. To reset the zoom level to default, click Reset zoom.

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