Bracketing allows you define from two to five ranges (brackets) of values and assign various colors to the brackets (see Bracketing Options dialog below) so that you can see at a glance the range into which the current value falls.

If bracketing is turned on for a given query the colors will be applied to the query’s returned table. Depending on the visualization type (see Chart View Types) these colors may also be applied to the visualization itself.

We’ve recently added Time Series Line Graph to the list of view types that support bracketing for visualizations (see Bracketing View Types). In this case, as shown below, the boundaries between brackets are represented by the colored horizontal lines that run across the chart at 100, 150, 200, and 400M.

For additional information, please see the Bracketing Pane Settings topic in the Kentik KB or contact the Kentik Customer Success team at support@kentik.com.