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Werk #8877: Historic metrics painter: Prevent empty views, improve error handling

Component User interface
Title Historic metrics painter: Prevent empty views, improve error handling
Date Aug 23, 2019
Level Trivial Change
Class Bug Fix
Compatibility Compatible - no manual interaction needed
Checkmk versions & editions
2.0.0i1 Checkmk Enterprise (CEE), Checkmk MSP (CME)
1.6.0b8 Checkmk Enterprise (CEE), Checkmk MSP (CME)

When adding the "historic metrics painter" to a view, this could result in empty views when none of the fetched row could satisfy the required metrics. Instead of filtering out all rows, we now leave the rows untouched and show an error message in the historic metrics painter.

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