--- title: "Available Chart Series Types" slug: "available-chart-series-types" updated: 2026-02-23T08:24:21Z published: 2026-02-23T08:24:21Z canonical: "documentation.lakesidesoftware.com/available-chart-series-types" --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://documentation.lakesidesoftware.com/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Available Chart Series Types The following chart types (examples of which are shown below) are available for use in a series when [defining a Chart](/documentation/docs/define-a-heat-chart) in SysTrack Dashboard: - **Line**: Useful for comparing non-cyclical data for showing trends over periods of time - **Column**: Useful for comparing several items in a specific range of values - **Bar**: Useful for comparing several categories of data. Most often used for a single point in time - **Area**: Useful for clearly illustrating the magnitude of change between two or more data points - **Stacked line**: Useful for analyzing data with different units of measure - **Stacked column**: Useful for comparing items in a specific range of values as well as showing the relationship of individual sub-items with the whole - **Stacked bar**: Useful for comparing more complex categories of data - **Stacked area**: Useful for comparing data that changes over time and where relative and absolute differences matter - **Pie**: Useful for representing the distribution or proportion of each data item over a total value - **Scatter**: Useful for showing correlations between two sets of values - **Spline**: A curved line chart that draws a fitted curve through data points. Useful for showing smooth gradual changes instead of spikes ![](https://cdn.document360.io/87d11426-6b1f-4b19-b593-b71e55a81af3/Images/Documentation/chart_column_line.png) ![](https://cdn.document360.io/87d11426-6b1f-4b19-b593-b71e55a81af3/Images/Documentation/chart-spline.png)