Y-axis and height metrics

The Y-axis controls what is in each row of the river. The height metric controls how thick each band gets drawn. Together they tell you what you're looking at and what scale to read it on.

What the y-axis represents

Each row in the river is one value of whatever dimension you're grouping by — one customer, one product category, one SKU. Pick the dimensions from the Configure gear next to the Y-axis breadcrumb:

Tick a dimension to add it as a column. Drag the handles to reorder. Pick more than one to layer the hierarchy: e.g. Customer → SKU shows each customer's SKUs as nested rows.

Drilling in and out

Click any cell in the Y-axis to drill into it — the river filters down to just that value's contents. The breadcrumbs above the Y-axis show the active path:

Click any breadcrumb segment to step back, or All to reset to the top. Drilling is also available from a band's right-click menu.

Choosing a height metric

The toolbar's Height button picks what each band's thickness represents:

Revenue, profit, quantity, support cases, and the trailing-3-month and percent-change variants of each. The list filters by your role's permissions; if a measure isn't visible, you don't have access to it.

Thickness is normalized across the whole canvas — the tallest band sets the scale, every other band is drawn proportionally. Switching the metric reflows the entire river to the new baseline.

Resizing

Drag the right edge of the Y-axis panel to widen or narrow it. Up to two columns are visible at once; additional dimensions collapse into a +N badge that you can scroll horizontally inside the Y-axis.