<%NUMBERING1%>.<%NUMBERING2%>.<%NUMBERING3%> PRTG Manual: Live Graphs

You can use live sensor graphs from PRTG in other web pages using the PRTG API. PRTG renders graphs as .png or .svg files. You can include them in other web pages.

Authentication with username and passhash (or username and password) must always be included in each PRTG API request. See section Authentication for more information.

Examples

Live graph as a .png file:

/chart.png?type=graph&width=300&height=160&graphid=2&id=0

Live graph as an .svg file:

/chart.svg?type=graph&width=300&height=160&graphid=2&id=0

To switch between PNG and SVG images, change the file extension of /chart to .png or .svg.

The URL does not start with /api. When placing these URLs on web pages, keep in mind that the URLs contain the account username and password/passhash. This can imply security issues. We recommend that you set up a dedicated read-only user account in PRTG that is member of a dedicated user group, for example, that only has read access to the root group and all underlying entries or, even better, only for the object IDs that are used for graph URLs.

Parameters for Live Graph URLs (chart.png or chart.svg)

Parameter	Description
type	Must be graph
graphid	Select time span of the graph: 0=live 1=last 48 hours 2=30 days 3=365 days
width	Width of the image in pixels
height	Height of the image in pixels
id	The object ID of the desired graph object. This is usually the ID of a sensor.
graphstyling	Allow control of some graph styles: Display legend: graphstyling=showLegend%3D%271%27 Hide legend: graphstyling=showLegend%3D%270%27 Control font size: graphstyling=baseFontSize%3D%27XX%27 (XX is the font size) Control legend and font size at the same time: graphstyling=showLegend%3D%271%27+baseFontSize%3D%275%27
bgcolor	Background color of the PNG image, for example, #fffff. This affects the area that surrounds the graph. The value must be URL encoded, for example, %23fffff.
plotcolor	Color of the graph's plot area, for example, #fffff. This affects the whole area within the graph box. The value must be URL encoded, for example, %23fffff.
plotcolor1	Alternating color of the graph's plot area, for example, #fffff. This affects the tiles within the graph box alternating with plotcolor2. The result is a striped graph box. The value must be URL encoded, for example, %23fffff. This parameter is overwritten when using the parameter plotcolor.
plotcolor2	Alternating color of the graph's plot area, for example, #fffff. This affects the tiles within the graph box alternating with plotcolor1. The result is a striped graph box. The value must be URL encoded, for example, %23fffff. This parameter is overwritten when using the parameter plotcolor.
gridcolor	Color of grid lines in the graph's plot area, for example, #fffff. This affects the horizontal and vertical lines within the graph box. The value must be URL encoded, for example, %23fffff.
hide	Do not show defined channels in the graph. Use the ID of a channel to hide it. For example, use hide=-4 to not show the downtime channel in the graph. To hide more than one channel, use commas to separate the IDs.

Retrieving Chart Legends (JSON)

You can show the legend of a sensor graph (channel IDs, colors, units, channel names) in the JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) format.

Example

Chart legend in the JSON format:

/api/chartlegend.json?id=sensorid

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