Commit 598c156a authored by Andrei Stoicescu's avatar Andrei Stoicescu

Add more elaborate docs regarding label shorthand

parent e662ccf0
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unit: "count"
```
This will render into:
This works by lowercasing the value of `label` and, if there are more words separated by spaces, replacing those spaces with an underscore (`_`). The transformed value is then checked against the labels of the time series returned by the Prometheus query. If a time series label is found that is equal to the transformed value, then the label value will be used and rendered in the legend like this:
![legend with label shorthand variable](img/prometheus_dashboard_label_variable_shorthand.png)
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