Monitoring Your Data with the Mosaic Graph Type

InfluxDB provides several graph type visualizations to allow users to easily monitor their data. However, most of those graph types are only helpful if your data can be represented numerically. The mosaic graph type is well-suited to tracking status over time by plotting the change in the value of a given category of data over time, with colored boxes representing certain values and the length of the box representing how long the value lasts. A team of interns created this visualization type during their summer internship, facing challenges such as organizing data into intervals, handling string values, and implementing the graph's backend. The project taught them valuable lessons about understanding complex codebases, quantifying work, and the importance of mentorship and support from their team.