Azure Charts for Data Visualization and Reporting

Azure Charts provides a robust set of features for data visualization and reporting. It offers a wide range of chart types, including line charts, bar charts, and scatter plots.

Azure Charts can be easily integrated into web applications, allowing developers to create interactive and dynamic visualizations. This makes it an ideal choice for businesses that need to present complex data in a clear and concise manner.

One of the key benefits of Azure Charts is its scalability, making it suitable for large-scale enterprise applications. With Azure Charts, you can easily handle large datasets and generate reports in real-time.

Creating Azure Charts is a breeze with Azure Data Studio. You can create charts from SQL Server data using Azure Data Studio.

Azure Data Studio provides an integrated output terminal to prepare various kinds of charts from SQL Server data. You can launch ADS, connect to a SQL instance, and execute a query in the AdventureWorks database to get started.

The query outputs in the results tab give you many result formats, including charts. You can save results in CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML format, or view them as charts. The chart option retrieves the image, and you can customize it to suit your needs.

Azure Data Studio offers various configuration options to get the charts suitable for your data. You can choose the data direction, which can be horizontal (default) or vertical. You can also choose the labels for both the X and Y-axis and set the minimum and maximum value for the axis.

Here are the configuration options for Azure Data Studio charts:

You can also copy the chart as an image or save it as an image using the chart area. This makes it easy to share or use the chart in other programs like Microsoft Word or Excel.

You can explore various chart features in the query results by clicking on Chart. This immediately displays a list of chart options.

The available chart options include Bar, Horizontal Bar, Line, Scatter, Time series, Table, Count, Image, Doughnut, and Pie.

Each chart type offers default properties, and you can explore a few of these useful charts and their configurations to get started.

In the query results, you can explore various charts to visualize your data. You can click on the Chart option and get a bar chart with default properties.

One of the useful charts is the bar chart, which is available by default. You can also choose from other chart types such as Horizontal Bar, Line, Scatter, and Time series.

The chart types are listed in the following options: Bar, Horizontal Bar, Line, Scatter, Time series, Table, Count, Image, Doughnut, and Pie.

To get a visual representation of your VMs by Operating System, you can create a chart. This can be done by altering your query to target the "storageProfile" / "osDisk" / osType property.

To change the query, you'll need to update it to:

You can then save the query and reuse it by adding a name. This name will appear as the title when you add the chart to your Azure Dashboard.

Azure Data Studio offers two primary chart types: Bar and Horizontal charts. These chart types can be customized to suit your data needs.

You can choose between horizontal and vertical data direction in Bar charts, and switching to vertical data direction will give you a correct bar chart. In Horizontal charts, the configuration options are similar, but the axis labels and values are different.

To customize your chart, you can also change the legend position to top, bottom, left, right, or disable it altogether. Both chart types also allow you to set minimum and maximum values for the axis, giving you more control over the data presentation.

Here are some key configuration options for each chart type:

Bar and Horizontal Charts are two essential types of charts in Azure Data Studio. They offer various configuration options to make them suitable for your data.

You can choose the data direction, which defaults to horizontal but can be changed to vertical. I've seen this in action, and it's a game-changer for visualizing data.

By changing the data direction to vertical, you can get a more traditional bar chart. The chart automatically puts a tick on "Use column names as labels", which shows the employees' data according to the [MaritalStatus] column.

You can hover your mouse in the chart area to check the actual data points. This is super helpful for understanding the data behind the chart.

To customize the chart further, you can choose the labels for both the X and Y-axis. You can also set the minimum and maximum value for the axis. For example, you can set the minimum value for the Y-axis from 30 to 10.

The legend position can be changed to bottom, left, right, or none (disable). I've seen the legend position changed to right, which places it to the right side of the chart.

Both Bar and Horizontal charts have similar configuration options. However, the axis configurations differ slightly, with the Bar chart giving Y-axis configurations and the Horizontal chart giving X-axis configurations.

You can copy the chart as an image in the clipboard using the "Copy as image" option. You can also save the chart as an image by clicking on "Save as image" and specifying a directory to save the image file.

A line chart generates a plot or curve chart according to the data points.

We can change the chart type from the default bar type to the line chart, and it generates a line chart for our result set.

We can point over any data point, and it shows you values for it in a tooltip.

A Pie chart is a circular statistical graphic that divides the circle based on data frequency.

It's a great way to visualize data, and in Azure Data Studio, you can see different area sizes for each category, like in our example where the lowest count for women single gets the lowest area in the pie chart.

Pie charts are useful for showing how different categories contribute to the whole, and they can be especially helpful when you have a small number of categories.

In a Pie chart, the size of each area represents the proportion of the data it represents, making it easy to spot trends and patterns.

Reporting and Dashboards are powerful tools for getting insights from your data.

You can view Azure DevOps data through the web portal, which offers a range of features for reporting and analysis.

Dashboards are customizable interactive signboards that provide real-time information, associated with a team or a project and displaying configurable charts and widgets.

Dashboards can be used to share information, view status, progress, and trends, and access quick links and other functions.

With dashboards, you can easily add and rearrange widgets to show recent changes made to view build status, bug trends, and more.

Some examples of widgets include charts, which are query-based status or trend charts derived from a work item query or test results, and in-context reports, which are system-generated charts that support specific services.

The widget catalog provides brief descriptions of those widgets available to you, and you can also add widgets provided through Azure DevOps Marketplace.

The following types of widgets are available:

Burndown and Pipeline Reports are essential tools for tracking progress and identifying trends in your Azure projects. You can view the Sprint Burndown Trend by choosing the start and end of the sprint and count or sum field to use in the burndown.

The Sprint Burndown chart tracks the remaining work for the team and individual team members. You can also view the Cumulative Flow Diagram and team Velocity reports from your backlog or board.

The CFD report shows the count of work items in the backlog based on their state over time. You can view the Velocity report based on the values entered for Effort, Story Points, or Size fields for work items that belong to the Requirement category.

To view the Pipeline pass rate report, you can see the trend of pipeline failure and task failure over a configurable period of time, such as 7, 14, or 30 days. The report highlights the top failing tasks.

The Pipeline duration report provides the duration trend of a pipeline, including the average run time of the total successful runs over a period of time. You can view the report for 7, 14, or 30 days.

You can create various charts to monitor status, progress, and trends using flat-list queries. Some chart types include pie, bar, column, stacked bar, and pivot for status charts, and stacked area, line, and area for trend charts.

Azure architecture diagrams provide a visual representation of complex cloud infrastructure, making it easier for both technical and non-technical stakeholders to understand how different components are connected and interact.

Manual diagrams in Azure Documenter can help break down complex architectures into visually appealing representations with its user-friendly interface, rich library of Azure icons, and seamless integration with Azure resources.

EdrawMax is a free Azure architecture diagram tool that offers a wide variety of diagrams, maps, networks, graphics, colors, templates, and symbols. It also provides features such as managed and updated tools, modern templates, free import and export of data, data visualization, graphic designing, and file interchange facility.

Here are some key features of EdrawMax:

A Cumulative Flow Diagram is an interactive tool that lets you choose the time frame you want to view. You can pick from different time frames to see how your workflow is progressing.

To use a Cumulative Flow Diagram, you need to select the swimlanes, which are essentially the different stages of your workflow. This will help you visualize how tasks are moving through each stage.

By choosing the workflow states or board columns, you can customize the diagram to fit your specific needs. This will give you a clear picture of where tasks are in your workflow and how they're progressing over time.

Diagrams are visual representations that help us understand complex information. They can be used to illustrate relationships, structures, and components of a solution or application.

A good diagram should provide a clear and concise overview of the information it's trying to convey. This is especially true for Azure architecture diagrams, which are used to illustrate the structure, components, and relationships of a solution or application deployed on Microsoft Azure.

Diagrams are helpful for design discussions, documentation, and communication among team members and stakeholders.

Designing diagrams is a crucial step in creating a clear and concise visual representation of your Azure architecture. Azure architecture diagrams can be designed using various tools available in the market.

One such tool is Turbo360 Azure Documenter, which simplifies and enhances the process of designing Azure architecture diagrams. This tool provides real-time visualization of Azure resources within the architecture, making it easier to understand complex systems.

Manual diagrams in Azure Documenter help break down complex architectures into visually appealing representations. This is achieved through a user-friendly interface, a rich library of Azure icons, and seamless integration with Azure resources.

EdrawMax is another tool that serves the widest variety of diagrams, maps, networks, graphics, colors, templates, and symbols. It offers features such as managed and updated tools, modern templates, free import and export of data, data visualization, graphic designing, and file interchange facility.

Here are some key features of EdrawMax:

Ultimately, designing diagrams is about creating a clear and concise visual representation of your Azure architecture. By using the right tools and techniques, you can create diagrams that are easy to understand and communicate effectively with your team and stakeholders.