Question

I have large amounts of data formatted in JSON formats, I recently scripted the data to conform to Flot’s data set, except for one problem, the data has no x values.

EG:

{
  label: "testMetric1",
  data: [12,314,123,41]
}

I want to simply graph these values as y values. Is there a way to tell Flot to just assume the x series will be sequential (i.e. graph 12 at x = 1, graph 314 at x = 2, etc.)

Answer 1

There isn’t a way to automatically have it do that, no.

So before you feed your data to flot, do something like this:

var data = [12,314,123,41]; 
var new_data = [];

for (var i=0;i<data.length;i++){  
 new_data.push([i,data[i]]); 
}

//then call flot here with new_data