A time series panel in Sift turns one channel into an interactive view you can read, zoom, and send to a teammate in a single click. Reviewing telemetry usually means hunting through CSVs, taking screenshots, and writing long Slack messages to point a colleague at the same moment you just spent twenty minutes finding. The time series panel collapses that work into a few interactions on the same canvas.Jeremy, on the Explore team at Sift, walks through opening a panel from a data resource, moving through the data with XY zoom, X zoom, pan, Select X, and the crosshair tooltip, changing the time range, and sharing the exact view through a link. By the end, you will know which zoom interaction fits which question and how to send a teammate the full state of your view in one URL.
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In this video, you'll learn how to:

• Open a channel from a data resource in a single click
• Pick the right zoom interaction for the question you're asking
• Read exact values with the crosshair tooltip
• Set a custom or preset time range
• Share a panel as a URL that captures the full state of the view

Read the full video transcript below: 

This is a time series panel in Sift. In the next 3 minutes, you'll see how to open one, move through the data, and send it to a teammate. Hey, I'm Jeremy. I'm on the explore team at Sift. Today, we're going to talk about how to plot data in a time series chart, how to interact with it, and how to share it.

Every exploration starts from data. This one has sensor data from a vehicle from a test campaign. Clicking a channel opens it in a time series panel. One click and your data is plotted, ready to explore.

From here, there are a few ways to move through the data, each suited to a different question. XY Zoom lets you box select a region when you want to focus on both a time window and a value range at the same time. It's useful for when you're comparing magnitude and timing together. X Zoom constrains to the time axis only. The value axis rescales to fit so you see the full signal shape inside the window you picked. Pan shifts the window left or right without changing the zoom level. Good for scrubbing across a long run once you've dialed in the right scale. Reset on X and XY axis can bring you back to the default view. Select X marks a time range while keeping your current view. Reach for this when you want to measure or reference a span and stay zoomed where you are.

The crosshair tooltip gives you the exact value at any point you hover. When precision matters — reading off a peak, confirming a threshold crossing — this is what you reach for.

If you want to look at a specific time range of the data, you can pick a preset or punch in a custom range. You can also reset the time back to the default time range.

Share generates a link that captures exactly what you're looking at — the channel, the panels, the time range, the zoom state. Anyone with access to the workspace opens it to the same view. The URL is the state. Send it in Slack, drop it in a ticket, and your teammate lands exactly where you are.

That's the full loop. Open data, explore it, share it. Two clicks to get here, one click to send it.

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