Grafana Dashboard not showing the mapped values

Question

I have mapped values in my Grafana Dashboards as shown in the following Link:

https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/panels-visualizations/configure-value-mappings/

For example: Variable is called Name and it contains the values 1,2,3,4,5 from the Database. The mapping is as follows:

1 - Name1
2 - Name2
3 - Name3
4 - Name4
5 - Name5

I have applied the settings of that panel and saved the dashboard.

But in the dropdown Name, i still see the numbers instead of their mapped values (Name1, Name2, etc.)

Does anyone know why this is occuring and if i need to do something in addition for that matter ?

Thanks in advance :)

Answer 1

To anyone interested:

I was creating the variable using a SQL Query. In order to map the new values as desired, the variable must be of the type Custom.

Inside the Custom options it is required to map the values with the scheme myKey : myValue and if multiple, they need to be separated by a comma.

For example:

Name1 : 1, Name2: 2, Name3: 3, Name4: 4, Name5: 5

Now in the Dropdown of the Variable Name it will be shown a list consisting of Name1, Name2, Name3, Name4, Name5. But when the variable Name is used in the SQL query of the Dashboard (ex. ... WHERE name = ($Name) ...), the number corresponding to that Name will be selected (1 for Name1).