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Status Submitted
Workspace Cloudability
Categories Reports, Dashboards
Created by Guest
Created on Sep 19, 2025

Colour (color) control in chart-type widgets

We are finding that some users are becoming confused with the colours in chart-type widgets in Cloudability Dashboards, particularly when tracking differing timelines.  I have attached an example where for a given timeline, AWS ECS was the primary cost driver, which is typically always blue. In the second example, we have exactly the same widget, but a shorter timeline where the primary cost driver is now CloudWatch for this shortened timeline, but is also blue.  Some users assume that the colours track to a particular value in a dimension. 

Some control over the colour scope in these widgets would also be beneficial, rather than being locked into the colour pallette provided. 

Idea priority Medium