It would be awsome if it was possible to allow setting markers in time for specific events. For example to mark software updates or the roll-out of new features and see how those influence the tracked values.

Proposed on Twitter by @hukl: https://twitter.com/#!/hukl/status/199547945962582016

I believe this is referring to a single graph (dashboards don't have that much chrome to begin with), but I need @hukl to confirm.

Enable users to configure a logarithmic scale either as a per-metric attribute or possibly per-axis on an instrument.

I have a number of the metrics of the form
category.one.median
category.two.median

Using either either 'category' or 'median' as a search term gives more than the five results shown in the correlate drop-down. It would be even nicer to just type category.*.median and have them all added to a graph. Wildcards would be handy on the metrics list as well.

I often want to add a set of related metrics to graph, and right now I have to add them one by one, switching back and forth to tab with a filtered metric list to remember the exact names. I would be nice to simply check the desired metrics in the list and then create a graph, just as you can delete several metrics now.

It would be great if a user could change the colors of graphs directly in the legend by clicking on the colored rectangle. A color picker would show up and you could assign arbitrary colors.

For example lets say you have an instrument showing successful logins and failed logins. Right now I could end up having this metric with a green and blue graph which is really not that great. I'd rather assign the failed logins a red and the successful ones green.

If this feature of customizing graph colors exists somewhere I couldn't find it yet :)

I'm finding the dark theme hard to view.

Triggering alerts based on a metric value makes sense for gauges, but for counters it should be based on a delta.

In the email msg from an alert I get 'only' a way to go to this metric.
(when I go there the alert is already disabled in the account I was logged in for)
We need additional info from which account this alert is AND a link to dis-able it too.

Now the msg looks like:
Metric Light_Intensity_across_sensors has triggered an alert!

Metric: Light_Intensity_across_sensors
Value: 584.0
Source: 5ccc4f
Triggered at: 2012-03-09 20:13:00 UTC
Click this link to view the metric.

Give same metrics the SAME color, so we will be able to relate/compare different metrics of the same source in different graphs in a dashboard,

I have a number of cases where retrieving data at a 1-day resolution would be very useful.

Simple example: "miles run per day" is more useful to me than "miles run per hour".

I would like to see a simple tutorial, even using curl commands

1. Create a graph
2. Update the graph with values
3. Pull it down

This would be great!

The Dashboards are nice in theory, but if I wanted to share this with my boss, I'd need to have him log into my account. Instead, it would be better if I could generate a Private URL to share just the dashboard, in a read-only mode.

For example, a wallboard type display, the screen would cycle through different dashboards on a timer

I'd like to be able to generate a read-only API token that wouldn't allow full-access to my account, but would simply allow the API client to use a "read-only" version for reporting, graphing etc. This would allow me to build in analytics views using HighCharts and the CORS API that you have available via the metrics API.

I wouldn't want people being able to add data points with this API key, but viewing (ideally adding permissions to that key to specific metrics only), would be a great way to handle building my analytics into my own system.

Currently the dashboard metrics are not reorderable, in order to change the order I have to delete and re-add my metrics.