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The Charts view is the default view of a project. It automatically includes every metric your runs log, grouped into sections by metric prefix — so a newly logged metric shows up without anyone configuring anything. You can rearrange that view: reorder and hide sections, move charts between sections, and add your own sections. The arrangement is saved on the project and shared with everyone in your organization.

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Charts view vs. dashboards

Both show charts, but they answer different questions. The key difference is coverage without configuration. A dashboard can keep up with new data too — that’s what dynamic sections and widgets are for — but it does so within the patterns you chose, so anything logged outside those patterns won’t appear. The Charts view has no patterns to fall outside of.

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What appears in the Charts view

Effectively everything you log:
  • Scalar metrics — a line chart per metric
  • String metrics — drawn as a staircase
  • Histograms
  • Images, video and audio — images can also carry bounding-box and mask annotations
  • Tables, and logged files — Plotly and matplotlib figures, 3D point clouds, HTML and plain text

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How sections are named

A section is the log name’s prefix — everything before the last /. So train/loss and train/acc share a train section, and eval/per_class/cat lands in eval/per_class. A name with no slash has no prefix to group by, so it falls back to a section named after the kind of data it holds — metrics, media, histogram, table or files. That’s why a bare output.log shows up under files rather than beside your metrics.
On the all-runs Charts view, files and text are grouped with media rather than in their own files section; the individual run page keeps them separate.
Two things you can put on a dashboard have no Charts view equivalent at all:
  • Logs — console output isn’t a per-step log, so it has no Charts view section. Read it on the run’s Logs tab, or add a logs widget from the Files tab of Add Widget.
  • Bar charts — added from the Distributions tab. The sibling scalars behind one do appear in the Charts view as individual line charts; the rollup itself is something you add explicitly.
Reach for a dashboard when you want a curated view built around specific questions. Reach for the Charts view when you want the guarantee that nothing is missing.

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Editing the layout

Click Edit layout above the charts. The view stays in place and becomes directly editable — the charts you’re rearranging are the real charts, at their real size. While editing, a control bar stays pinned at the top of the view as you scroll:
  • Add section — create a custom section.
  • Reset — clear the saved arrangement and return to the default.
  • Cancel — discard your changes.
  • Save layout — save for everyone on the project. Disabled until you change something.

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Reordering and hiding sections

Drag a section header to move that section up or down. Each section header also has an eye toggle. Click it to hide a section from the view; click again to show it. Hiding is part of the saved layout, so it applies for everyone.
Hiding a section doesn’t stop the metrics being logged or affect the data in any way — it only removes the section from this view. You can always unhide it from Edit layout.
Hiding works on whole sections only. There’s no way to hide a single chart — the Charts view’s guarantee is that every metric is present, so individual charts can be moved and reordered but never removed. If you want a view with only certain charts on it, build a dashboard instead.

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Moving charts between sections

Two ways, both in edit mode:
  • Drag a chart onto another chart, or onto the body of another section.
  • Use the Move to section… menu on the chart card. It’s searchable, which is faster when the target section is far down a long view.
The move menu also offers New section…, which creates a section and moves the chart into it in one step.

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Custom sections

Add section creates an empty section — name it, then move charts into it. Custom sections can be renamed and deleted from their header. Sections derived automatically from metric prefixes keep their computed name and can’t be renamed. Deleting a custom section never deletes charts: each chart returns to the section it would have been in automatically. Metrics logged later still land in their derived section, not in your custom one.

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Where the layout applies

The saved layout is stored per project and shared across your organization — the same way custom dashboards are. Everyone opening the project sees the arrangement you saved, and it persists between sessions. The individual run page inherits the same arrangement, read-only. Edit the layout from the project’s Charts view and the run page follows. Two things stay per-user and are not part of the saved layout:
  • Collapsing a section with its chevron. Sections always start expanded, so you can confirm at a glance that everything is being ingested.
  • Anything you change from a chart’s own settings popover, such as histogram axis bounds.