Graph Visualization
When you need to look past the at-a-glance numbers and explore the raw measurements behind them, Mirox gives you a full Grafana charting surface embedded directly in the platform — already connected to your plant data, already scoped to what you are allowed to see.
Visualization Concept
The KPI views and overview pages tell you what is happening across your fleet. Graph Visualization is the layer beneath that: an interactive charting workspace for examining the underlying time-series — power curves, energy counters, weather inputs, component-level signals — at whatever time range and resolution you need.
Mirox uses Grafana as this charting engine rather than reinventing one, so you get a mature, familiar exploration interface, and Mirox handles the parts that normally make Grafana hard to run: connecting it to your data, keeping dashboards in sync with your plants, and enforcing access.
Embedded and Pre-Connected
- Embedded Experience — Grafana dashboards open inside the Mirox interface; you do not maintain a separate Grafana login or install.
- Single Sign-On — your Mirox session carries through; there is no second set of credentials to manage.
- Automatic Data Connections — the data source is wired up for you. There is no manual server URL, token, or query configuration to set up before you can chart a plant.
- Per-Portfolio Provisioning — when you create a portfolio, its dashboards are provisioned automatically so they are reachable straight away, without waiting for a background sync.
- Access-Aligned — you only see charts for the plants your role grants you. Visibility follows the same permission rules as the rest of the platform.
What You Can Explore
The charting workspace gives you the standard Grafana toolkit applied to your plant metrics:
- Multiple Chart Types — line graphs, bar charts, gauges, and tables.
- Multi-Axis Plots — compare metrics with different units (for example power in W against irradiance in W/m²) on one chart.
- Interactive Time Control — pick any time range, zoom, and pan to focus on a window of interest.
- Adjustable Resolution — view fine-grained raw samples for a power curve or coarser aggregates for long-term trends.
- Point Inspection — hover or click to read exact values at a moment in time.
- Threshold Markers — highlight when a series crosses a value you define.
Raw Metrics, Not Pre-Aggregated Roll-Ups
Graph Visualization plots the raw collected metrics — the same series the platform records from your plants. For headline numbers (production totals, losses, availability, specific yield, Digital Twin completeness) use the KPI Dashboard, which computes those roll-ups for you. Use Grafana when you want to see the signal behind a KPI.
Dashboards Provided
Mirox ships purpose-built dashboards for renewable-energy monitoring so you do not start from a blank canvas:
- Plant Overview — production and key signals for an installation at a glance.
- Component Detail — metrics for individual components such as inverters, strings, and combiner boxes.
- Weather Correlation — production plotted alongside the irradiance and weather inputs that drive it.
Because these are standard Grafana dashboards, you can also build your own panels, adjust time ranges, and export dashboard definitions using Grafana's native tools.
Standard Grafana, With Its Trade-Offs
You get Grafana's well-established interface and interaction patterns, which is an advantage if you already know Grafana. The flip side is that charts follow Grafana's conventions rather than fully custom Mirox UI — deep bespoke layouts or interactions are not available inside this surface.
Planned Dashboards
Business-oriented views — financial performance, service-level compliance tracking, and maintenance-impact analysis — are planned and are not part of the provided dashboards today. Financial outputs are currently delivered through generated reports rather than live charts.
Distinction From Related Surfaces
It is easy to confuse the three places metric data shows up in Mirox. Each serves a different need:
| Surface | What it shows | When to use it |
|---|---|---|
| KPI Dashboard | Computed roll-ups (production, losses, availability, specific yield, Digital Twin completeness, plant-state distribution) | Quick fleet-wide and per-plant health and performance status |
| Graph Visualization | Raw and aggregated time-series in interactive charts | Investigating a signal in detail, comparing components, examining power curves |
| Metrics Export | Tabular metric data as CSV or JSON | Pulling data out for spreadsheets, reports, or external tools |
If you need the raw series for programmatic or external use instead of charting them here, query them with MiroxQL or pull them through the Metrics Export API.
Typical Workflows
Performance Monitoring
- Track current production against the weather conditions driving it.
- Watch a single inverter or string over time to catch underperformance early.
- Follow progress toward production targets across a chosen window.
Troubleshooting
- Compare components side by side to spot the outlier dragging a plant down.
- Line up a metric against the timeline of events to see what surrounded a problem.
- Drill from a flagged KPI into the raw signal to confirm what actually happened.
Technical Considerations
- No Plugins Needed — runs in modern web browsers with no client install.
- Responsive Layout — adapts to different screen sizes.
- Large-Dataset Handling — long time ranges are sampled so charts stay responsive.
Related Features
- KPI Dashboard — computed performance roll-ups across your fleet
- Real-Time Monitoring — the live data feed behind these charts
- Events — machine-detected conditions you can correlate on the timeline
- Metrics Export — pull the same metric data out as CSV or JSON
- MiroxQL — query the raw time-series programmatically
- Grafana Data Access — read your data in the provided Grafana platform