Use Azure dashboard time grain in pinned workbook query parts

Question

I have created a shared workbook for monitoring several metrics/charts for my team. Parts of the workbook are pinned to dashboard. Workbook has a time range parameter so that pinned parts can use time range configured on dashboard. This allows team members to change dashboard time range to quickly update all charts. Dashboard also allows to configure time granularity and we need to override automatic time granularity. For example, use 15 minute time granularity even for 3 day time range. I could not find a way to use this granularity parameter from dashboard in workbook parts. Has anyone been able to do it?

Answer 1

Unfortunately, workbooks doesn't currently know about any overridden time granularity of the dashboard.

Workbooks parts can use the dashboard's time range, which it sounds like you've already done, and if you use syntax like {timerange:grain} in your query you'll get an automatic grain based on that time range from the dashboard's time range.

But neither query or metrics steps in workbooks know how to reference the dashboard's overridden granularity or if the dashboard settings specify UTC vs local time.

i've added 9819260: Workbooks: support customized dashboard time granularity to our backlog, but can't make any promises on when it might be scheduled or implemented