JavaScript Figure Reference: indicator Traces
indicator trace is an object with the key "type" equal to "indicator" (i.e. {"type": "indicator"}) and any of the keys listed below. An indicator is used to visualize a single `value` along with some contextual information such as `steps` or a `threshold`, using a combination of three visual elements: a number, a delta, and/or a gauge. Deltas are taken with respect to a `reference`. Gauges can be either angular or bullet (aka linear) gauges.
- type
Parent:data[type=indicator]
Type: "indicator" - name
Parent:data[type=indicator]
Type: stringSets the trace name. The trace name appear as the legend item and on hover.
- title
Parent:data[type=indicator]
Type: object containing one or more of the keys listed below.- text
Parent:data[type=indicator].title
Type: stringSets the title of this indicator.
- align
Parent:data[type=indicator].title
Type: enumerated , one of ("left"|"center"|"right")Sets the horizontal alignment of the title. It defaults to `center` except for bullet charts for which it defaults to right.
- font
Parent:data[type=indicator].title
Type: object containing one or more of the keys listed below.Set the font used to display the title
- family
Parent:data[type=indicator].title.font
Type: stringHTML font family - the typeface that will be applied by the web browser. The web browser will only be able to apply a font if it is available on the system which it operates. Provide multiple font families, separated by commas, to indicate the preference in which to apply fonts if they aren't available on the system. The Chart Studio Cloud (at https://chart-studio.plotly.com or on-premise) generates images on a server, where only a select number of fonts are installed and supported. These include "Arial", "Balto", "Courier New", "Droid Sans",, "Droid Serif", "Droid Sans Mono", "Gravitas One", "Old Standard TT", "Open Sans", "Overpass", "PT Sans Narrow", "Raleway", "Times New Roman".
- size
Parent:data[type=indicator].title.font
Type: number greater than or equal to 1 - color
Parent:data[type=indicator].title.font
Type: color
- family
- text
- visible
Parent:data[type=indicator]
Type: enumerated , one of (true|false|"legendonly")
Default:trueDetermines whether or not this trace is visible. If "legendonly", the trace is not drawn, but can appear as a legend item (provided that the legend itself is visible).
- mode
Parent:data[type=indicator]
Type: flaglist string. Any combination of"number","delta","gauge"joined with a"+"
Examples:"number","delta","number+delta","number+delta+gauge"
Default:"number"Determines how the value is displayed on the graph. `number` displays the value numerically in text. `delta` displays the difference to a reference value in text. Finally, `gauge` displays the value graphically on an axis.
- ids
Parent:data[type=indicator]
Type: data arrayAssigns id labels to each datum. These ids for object constancy of data points during animation. Should be an array of strings, not numbers or any other type.
- value
Parent:data[type=indicator]
Type: numberSets the number to be displayed.
- meta
Parent:data[type=indicator]
Type: number or categorical coordinate stringAssigns extra meta information associated with this trace that can be used in various text attributes. Attributes such as trace `name`, graph, axis and colorbar `title.text`, annotation `text` `rangeselector`, `updatemenues` and `sliders` `label` text all support `meta`. To access the trace `meta` values in an attribute in the same trace, simply use `%{meta[i]}` where `i` is the index or key of the `meta` item in question. To access trace `meta` in layout attributes, use `%{data[n[.meta[i]}` where `i` is the index or key of the `meta` and `n` is the trace index.
- customdata
Parent:data[type=indicator]
Type: data arrayAssigns extra data each datum. This may be useful when listening to hover, click and selection events. Note that, "scatter" traces also appends customdata items in the markers DOM elements
- domain
Parent:data[type=indicator]
Type: object containing one or more of the keys listed below.- x
Parent:data[type=indicator].domain
Type: array
Default:[0, 1]Sets the horizontal domain of this indicator trace (in plot fraction).
- y
Parent:data[type=indicator].domain
Type: array
Default:[0, 1]Sets the vertical domain of this indicator trace (in plot fraction).
- row
Parent:data[type=indicator].domain
Type: integer greater than or equal to 0
Default:0If there is a layout grid, use the domain for this row in the grid for this indicator trace .
- column
Parent:data[type=indicator].domain
Type: integer greater than or equal to 0
Default:0If there is a layout grid, use the domain for this column in the grid for this indicator trace .
- x
- align
Parent:data[type=indicator]
Type: enumerated , one of ("left"|"center"|"right")Sets the horizontal alignment of the `text` within the box. Note that this attribute has no effect if an angular gauge is displayed: in this case, it is always centered
- delta
Parent:data[type=indicator]
Type: object containing one or more of the keys listed below.- reference
Parent:data[type=indicator].delta
Type: numberSets the reference value to compute the delta. By default, it is set to the current value.
- position
Parent:data[type=indicator].delta
Type: enumerated , one of ("top"|"bottom"|"left"|"right")
Default:"bottom"Sets the position of delta with respect to the number.
- relative
Parent:data[type=indicator].delta
Type: booleanShow relative change
- valueformat
Parent:data[type=indicator].delta
Type: stringSets the value formatting rule using d3 formatting mini-language which is similar to those of Python. See https://github.com/d3/d3-3.x-api-reference/blob/master/Formatting.md#d3_format
- increasing
Parent:data[type=indicator].delta
Type: object containing one or more of the keys listed below. - decreasing
Parent:data[type=indicator].delta
Type: object containing one or more of the keys listed below. - font
Parent:data[type=indicator].delta
Type: object containing one or more of the keys listed below.Set the font used to display the delta
- family
Parent:data[type=indicator].delta.font
Type: stringHTML font family - the typeface that will be applied by the web browser. The web browser will only be able to apply a font if it is available on the system which it operates. Provide multiple font families, separated by commas, to indicate the preference in which to apply fonts if they aren't available on the system. The Chart Studio Cloud (at https://chart-studio.plotly.com or on-premise) generates images on a server, where only a select number of fonts are installed and supported. These include "Arial", "Balto", "Courier New", "Droid Sans",, "Droid Serif", "Droid Sans Mono", "Gravitas One", "Old Standard TT", "Open Sans", "Overpass", "PT Sans Narrow", "Raleway", "Times New Roman".
- size
Parent:data[type=indicator].delta.font
Type: number greater than or equal to 1 - color
Parent:data[type=indicator].delta.font
Type: color
- family
- reference
- number
Parent:data[type=indicator]
Type: object containing one or more of the keys listed below.- valueformat
Parent:data[type=indicator].number
Type: string
Default:""Sets the value formatting rule using d3 formatting mini-language which is similar to those of Python. See https://github.com/d3/d3-3.x-api-reference/blob/master/Formatting.md#d3_format
- font
Parent:data[type=indicator].number
Type: object containing one or more of the keys listed below.Set the font used to display main number
- family
Parent:data[type=indicator].number.font
Type: stringHTML font family - the typeface that will be applied by the web browser. The web browser will only be able to apply a font if it is available on the system which it operates. Provide multiple font families, separated by commas, to indicate the preference in which to apply fonts if they aren't available on the system. The Chart Studio Cloud (at https://chart-studio.plotly.com or on-premise) generates images on a server, where only a select number of fonts are installed and supported. These include "Arial", "Balto", "Courier New", "Droid Sans",, "Droid Serif", "Droid Sans Mono", "Gravitas One", "Old Standard TT", "Open Sans", "Overpass", "PT Sans Narrow", "Raleway", "Times New Roman".
- size
Parent:data[type=indicator].number.font
Type: number greater than or equal to 1 - color
Parent:data[type=indicator].number.font
Type: color
- family
- prefix
Parent:data[type=indicator].number
Type: string
Default:""Sets a prefix appearing before the number.
- suffix
Parent:data[type=indicator].number
Type: string
Default:""Sets a suffix appearing next to the number.
- valueformat
- gauge
Parent:data[type=indicator]
Type: object containing one or more of the keys listed below.The gauge of the Indicator plot.
- shape
Parent:data[type=indicator].gauge
Type: enumerated , one of ("angular"|"bullet")
Default:"angular"Set the shape of the gauge
- bar
Parent:data[type=indicator].gauge
Type: object containing one or more of the keys listed below.Set the appearance of the gauge's value
- color
Parent:data[type=indicator].gauge.bar
Type: color
Default:"green"Sets the background color of the arc.
- line
Parent:data[type=indicator].gauge.bar
Type: object containing one or more of the keys listed below. - thickness
Parent:data[type=indicator].gauge.bar
Type: number between or equal to 0 and 1
Default:1Sets the thickness of the bar as a fraction of the total thickness of the gauge.
- color
- bgcolor
Parent:data[type=indicator].gauge
Type: colorSets the gauge background color.
- bordercolor
Parent:data[type=indicator].gauge
Type: color
Default:"#444"Sets the color of the border enclosing the gauge.
- borderwidth
Parent:data[type=indicator].gauge
Type: number greater than or equal to 0
Default:1Sets the width (in px) of the border enclosing the gauge.
- axis
Parent:data[type=indicator].gauge
Type: object containing one or more of the keys listed below.- range
Parent:data[type=indicator].gauge.axis
Type: arraySets the range of this axis.
- visible
Parent:data[type=indicator].gauge.axis
Type: boolean
Default:trueA single toggle to hide the axis while preserving interaction like dragging. Default is true when a cheater plot is present on the axis, otherwise false
- tickmode
Parent:data[type=indicator].gauge.axis
Type: enumerated , one of ("auto"|"linear"|"array")Sets the tick mode for this axis. If "auto", the number of ticks is set via `nticks`. If "linear", the placement of the ticks is determined by a starting position `tick0` and a tick step `dtick` ("linear" is the default value if `tick0` and `dtick` are provided). If "array", the placement of the ticks is set via `tickvals` and the tick text is `ticktext`. ("array" is the default value if `tickvals` is provided).
- nticks
Parent:data[type=indicator].gauge.axis
Type: integer greater than or equal to 0
Default:0Specifies the maximum number of ticks for the particular axis. The actual number of ticks will be chosen automatically to be less than or equal to `nticks`. Has an effect only if `tickmode` is set to "auto".
- tick0
Parent:data[type=indicator].gauge.axis
Type: number or categorical coordinate stringSets the placement of the first tick on this axis. Use with `dtick`. If the axis `type` is "log", then you must take the log of your starting tick (e.g. to set the starting tick to 100, set the `tick0` to 2) except when `dtick`="L<f>" (see `dtick` for more info). If the axis `type` is "date", it should be a date string, like date data. If the axis `type` is "category", it should be a number, using the scale where each category is assigned a serial number from zero in the order it appears.
- dtick
Parent:data[type=indicator].gauge.axis
Type: number or categorical coordinate stringSets the step in-between ticks on this axis. Use with `tick0`. Must be a positive number, or special strings available to "log" and "date" axes. If the axis `type` is "log", then ticks are set every 10^(n"dtick) where n is the tick number. For example, to set a tick mark at 1, 10, 100, 1000, ... set dtick to 1. To set tick marks at 1, 100, 10000, ... set dtick to 2. To set tick marks at 1, 5, 25, 125, 625, 3125, ... set dtick to log_10(5), or 0.69897000433. "log" has several special values; "L<f>", where `f` is a positive number, gives ticks linearly spaced in value (but not position). For example `tick0` = 0.1, `dtick` = "L0.5" will put ticks at 0.1, 0.6, 1.1, 1.6 etc. To show powers of 10 plus small digits between, use "D1" (all digits) or "D2" (only 2 and 5). `tick0` is ignored for "D1" and "D2". If the axis `type` is "date", then you must convert the time to milliseconds. For example, to set the interval between ticks to one day, set `dtick` to 86400000.0. "date" also has special values "M<n>" gives ticks spaced by a number of months. `n` must be a positive integer. To set ticks on the 15th of every third month, set `tick0` to "2000-01-15" and `dtick` to "M3". To set ticks every 4 years, set `dtick` to "M48"
- tickvals
Parent:data[type=indicator].gauge.axis
Type: data arraySets the values at which ticks on this axis appear. Only has an effect if `tickmode` is set to "array". Used with `ticktext`.
- ticktext
Parent:data[type=indicator].gauge.axis
Type: data arraySets the text displayed at the ticks position via `tickvals`. Only has an effect if `tickmode` is set to "array". Used with `tickvals`.
- ticks
Parent:data[type=indicator].gauge.axis
Type: enumerated , one of ("outside"|"inside"|"")
Default:"outside"Determines whether ticks are drawn or not. If "", this axis' ticks are not drawn. If "outside" ("inside"), this axis' are drawn outside (inside) the axis lines.
- ticklen
Parent:data[type=indicator].gauge.axis
Type: number greater than or equal to 0
Default:5Sets the tick length (in px).
- tickwidth
Parent:data[type=indicator].gauge.axis
Type: number greater than or equal to 0
Default:1Sets the tick width (in px).
- tickcolor
Parent:data[type=indicator].gauge.axis
Type: color
Default:"#444"Sets the tick color.
- showticklabels
Parent:data[type=indicator].gauge.axis
Type: boolean
Default:trueDetermines whether or not the tick labels are drawn.
- tickfont
Parent:data[type=indicator].gauge.axis
Type: object containing one or more of the keys listed below.Sets the color bar's tick label font
- family
Parent:data[type=indicator].gauge.axis.tickfont
Type: stringHTML font family - the typeface that will be applied by the web browser. The web browser will only be able to apply a font if it is available on the system which it operates. Provide multiple font families, separated by commas, to indicate the preference in which to apply fonts if they aren't available on the system. The Chart Studio Cloud (at https://chart-studio.plotly.com or on-premise) generates images on a server, where only a select number of fonts are installed and supported. These include "Arial", "Balto", "Courier New", "Droid Sans",, "Droid Serif", "Droid Sans Mono", "Gravitas One", "Old Standard TT", "Open Sans", "Overpass", "PT Sans Narrow", "Raleway", "Times New Roman".
- size
Parent:data[type=indicator].gauge.axis.tickfont
Type: number greater than or equal to 1 - color
Parent:data[type=indicator].gauge.axis.tickfont
Type: color
- family
- tickangle
Parent:data[type=indicator].gauge.axis
Type: angle
Default:"auto"Sets the angle of the tick labels with respect to the horizontal. For example, a `tickangle` of -90 draws the tick labels vertically.
- tickformat
Parent:data[type=indicator].gauge.axis
Type: string
Default:""Sets the tick label formatting rule using d3 formatting mini-languages which are very similar to those in Python. For numbers, see: https://github.com/d3/d3-3.x-api-reference/blob/master/Formatting.md#d3_format And for dates see: https://github.com/d3/d3-time-format#locale_format We add one item to d3's date formatter: "%{n}f" for fractional seconds with n digits. For example, "2016-10-13 09:15:23.456" with tickformat "%H~%M~%S.%2f" would display "09~15~23.46"
- tickformatstops
Parent:data[type=indicator].gauge.axis
Type: array of object where each object has one or more of the keys listed below.- enabled
Parent:data[type=indicator].gauge.axis.tickformatstops[]
Type: boolean
Default:trueDetermines whether or not this stop is used. If `false`, this stop is ignored even within its `dtickrange`.
- dtickrange
Parent:data[type=indicator].gauge.axis.tickformatstops[]
Type: arrayrange ["min", "max"], where "min", "max" - dtick values which describe some zoom level, it is possible to omit "min" or "max" value by passing "null"
- value
Parent:data[type=indicator].gauge.axis.tickformatstops[]
Type: string
Default:""string - dtickformat for described zoom level, the same as "tickformat"
- name
Parent:data[type=indicator].gauge.axis.tickformatstops[]
Type: stringWhen used in a template, named items are created in the output figure in addition to any items the figure already has in this array. You can modify these items in the output figure by making your own item with `templateitemname` matching this `name` alongside your modifications (including `visible: false` or `enabled: false` to hide it). Has no effect outside of a template.
- templateitemname
Parent:data[type=indicator].gauge.axis.tickformatstops[]
Type: stringUsed to refer to a named item in this array in the template. Named items from the template will be created even without a matching item in the input figure, but you can modify one by making an item with `templateitemname` matching its `name`, alongside your modifications (including `visible: false` or `enabled: false` to hide it). If there is no template or no matching item, this item will be hidden unless you explicitly show it with `visible: true`.
- enabled
- tickprefix
Parent:data[type=indicator].gauge.axis
Type: string
Default:""Sets a tick label prefix.
- showtickprefix
Parent:data[type=indicator].gauge.axis
Type: enumerated , one of ("all"|"first"|"last"|"none")
Default:"all"If "all", all tick labels are displayed with a prefix. If "first", only the first tick is displayed with a prefix. If "last", only the last tick is displayed with a suffix. If "none", tick prefixes are hidden.
- ticksuffix
Parent:data[type=indicator].gauge.axis
Type: string
Default:""Sets a tick label suffix.
- showticksuffix
Parent:data[type=indicator].gauge.axis
Type: enumerated , one of ("all"|"first"|"last"|"none")
Default:"all"Same as `showtickprefix` but for tick suffixes.
- separatethousands
Parent:data[type=indicator].gauge.axis
Type: booleanIf "true", even 4-digit integers are separated
- exponentformat
Parent:data[type=indicator].gauge.axis
Type: enumerated , one of ("none"|"e"|"E"|"power"|"SI"|"B")
Default:"B"Determines a formatting rule for the tick exponents. For example, consider the number 1,000,000,000. If "none", it appears as 1,000,000,000. If "e", 1e+9. If "E", 1E+9. If "power", 1x10^9 (with 9 in a super script). If "SI", 1G. If "B", 1B.
- showexponent
Parent:data[type=indicator].gauge.axis
Type: enumerated , one of ("all"|"first"|"last"|"none")
Default:"all"If "all", all exponents are shown besides their significands. If "first", only the exponent of the first tick is shown. If "last", only the exponent of the last tick is shown. If "none", no exponents appear.
- range
- steps
Parent:data[type=indicator].gauge
Type: array of object where each object has one or more of the keys listed below.- color
Parent:data[type=indicator].gauge.steps[]
Type: colorSets the background color of the arc.
- line
Parent:data[type=indicator].gauge.steps[]
Type: object containing one or more of the keys listed below. - thickness
Parent:data[type=indicator].gauge.steps[]
Type: number between or equal to 0 and 1
Default:1Sets the thickness of the bar as a fraction of the total thickness of the gauge.
- range
Parent:data[type=indicator].gauge.steps[]
Type: arraySets the range of this axis.
- name
Parent:data[type=indicator].gauge.steps[]
Type: stringWhen used in a template, named items are created in the output figure in addition to any items the figure already has in this array. You can modify these items in the output figure by making your own item with `templateitemname` matching this `name` alongside your modifications (including `visible: false` or `enabled: false` to hide it). Has no effect outside of a template.
- templateitemname
Parent:data[type=indicator].gauge.steps[]
Type: stringUsed to refer to a named item in this array in the template. Named items from the template will be created even without a matching item in the input figure, but you can modify one by making an item with `templateitemname` matching its `name`, alongside your modifications (including `visible: false` or `enabled: false` to hide it). If there is no template or no matching item, this item will be hidden unless you explicitly show it with `visible: true`.
- color
- threshold
Parent:data[type=indicator].gauge
Type: object containing one or more of the keys listed below.- line
Parent:data[type=indicator].gauge.threshold
Type: object containing one or more of the keys listed below. - thickness
Parent:data[type=indicator].gauge.threshold
Type: number between or equal to 0 and 1
Default:0.85Sets the thickness of the threshold line as a fraction of the thickness of the gauge.
- value
Parent:data[type=indicator].gauge.threshold
Type: numberSets a treshold value drawn as a line.
- line
- shape
- uirevision
Parent:data[type=indicator]
Type: number or categorical coordinate stringControls persistence of some user-driven changes to the trace: `constraintrange` in `parcoords` traces, as well as some `editable: true` modifications such as `name` and `colorbar.title`. Defaults to `layout.uirevision`. Note that other user-driven trace attribute changes are controlled by `layout` attributes: `trace.visible` is controlled by `layout.legend.uirevision`, `selectedpoints` is controlled by `layout.selectionrevision`, and `colorbar.(x|y)` (accessible with `config: {editable: true}`) is controlled by `layout.editrevision`. Trace changes are tracked by `uid`, which only falls back on trace index if no `uid` is provided. So if your app can add/remove traces before the end of the `data` array, such that the same trace has a different index, you can still preserve user-driven changes if you give each trace a `uid` that stays with it as it moves.

