To explain how to customize a graph within Grafana, we should probably start by creating a new panel to contain it. Once we've logged into the interface, we must first navigate to the PostgreSQL Cluster dashboard we want to modify, and then add a new panel using the context menu at the top of the screen. As in the last recipe, this will create a New Panel where we can start the process by using Add Query.
The fun starts after we change Select measurement to postgresql and change the field to xact_commit as now we can start adding transformations. The first thing we do is add a derivative transformation. Why must we do this? We do so because many PostgreSQL catalog statistics consist of monotonically increasing values. The ...