Make relative time picker linear about parca HOT 9 CLOSED

Grafana approach for reference:

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Given those considerations and all the ideas listed thus far, I have to say that I quite like Prometheus' solution. I like the idea of having a slider with predefined values as well, but I think the + and - buttons will serve the same purpose and have a cleaner UI given that the slider values would not be evenly spaced (there's a difference between 1h and 6h and 12h and 1day for example).

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@brancz by "columns" do you mean that instead of two columns for the "Last 15 min" "Last 1 hour" etc. options we should have them in a single column?

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Right now we have

Last 15min | Last 6 hours
Last 1 hour | Last 12 hours
Last 3 hours | Last 1 day

We should just make it

Last 15min
Last 1 hour
Last 3 hours
Last 6 hours
Last 12 hours
Last 1 day

And as I was writing this, I think that means we basically want it to be like the other dropdowns we have except for the ability to somehow adjust the lookback and absolute times.

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Hmm, I feel like that might significantly extend the vertical space/height of the time range selector. Is it at all necessary to have the "Last 15 min" "Last 1 hour" etc. options explicitly displayed given that the "Last " component covers all of those cases and more? We could save what the user last chose as the number input and unit in cache so that they wouldn't have to edit this every time if they usually use the same relative time range?

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Maybe it’s worth looking at what prometheus does? I quite like that experience. -/+ buttons on both ends of the button to increase/decrease and a click on the “text” reveals the menu to write it out or select absolutes?

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Could we have a slider maybe? With predefined points in time.

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Oh I like in the Grafana approach that the predefined "quick ranges" are hidden within a search! It's mainly the vertical space that I was hesitant about by converting our current solution to a single column.

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Not sure the search makes any sense to me and I personally find Grafana’s picker way too busy.

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