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Mauricio_Mayer_Soares
Copper Contributor
Mar 03, 2023

How to create a active bugs trend chart

Hi everybody!

 

I'd like to create a Active bug trends, like this:

However, everytime that I try to create this, I always have this result

My chart always sum the quantity of bugs, not the trend

 

When I try to setup my chart, I have this screen

Note that I have the option Count. 

 

My question is: How to create a active bug trend chart?

 

I try this documentation but, no success: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/boards/backlogs/manage-bugs?view=azure-devops#monitor-bug-status-assignments-and-trends

 

Thanks for Advice

 

Mauricio

azure devops

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  • dmsb's avatar
    dmsb
    Copper Contributor
    Jul 21, 2026

    Hi ​Mauricio,

    As you observed, that is a cumulative chart - its does not display only the active bugs, but all the accumulated bugs along the time.

    You can easily get a chart like that by using the WIP Run Chart widget provided by the Great Gadgets extension (see https://dev.azure.com/stonikbyte-production/Great%20Gadgets/_dashboards/dashboard/0329cfac-11f7-4bf6-8959-f8c13fedb181). 

    To obtain such chart:

    1. create a shared query that returns all the bugs from your projects/teams (including the closed bugs)

    2. add the WIP Run Chart widget to an Azure DevOps dashboard and configure it to use the created shared query

    3. On Data tab configure its time range, calculation by work count. If needed, select the 3rd option Work Items in one of these states and select the workflow states that you want to include in the chart.

    4. On More Settings tab choose to Split data by State

    Hope this helps.

    D.