3 posts tagged with "Charts"

Graphviz has been the backbone of automated graph visualization for over three decades. Originally developed at AT&T Labs, it powers dependency graphs in build systems, call graphs in profilers, and database schemas in ORMs -- anywhere that diagrams need to be generated from structured data rather than drawn by hand. Graphviz Charts for Confluence brings that same engine directly into your Confluence pages, letting you write DOT language descriptions and get polished, auto-laid-out diagrams without leaving your wiki.

Pie charts are one of the simplest and most effective ways to communicate proportional data. Whether you are reporting survey results, breaking down a project budget, or showing how your team allocates time across activities, a pie chart turns a list of numbers into a visual that anyone can read in seconds. Confluence is where your team already stores reports, retrospectives, and planning documents, so embedding pie charts directly on those pages keeps your data alongside the context that explains it.

With Mermaid Plus for Confluence, you can create pie charts and other data visualizations using plain text syntax. No image exports, no spreadsheet screenshots, no broken attachments. You write the code once, and the chart renders directly on the Confluence page, updating whenever you edit the underlying data.

Developers write in Markdown. Confluence doesn't. Every engineering team that moves from GitHub wikis, README files, or Hugo docs to Confluence hits the same wall — the rich text editor feels slow, and there's no way to write in the format they already know.

Several marketplace apps bring Markdown to Confluence, but they take different approaches. Some embed Markdown as macros. Others import Markdown files. A few offer live editing. We built Enhanced Markdown for Confluence to give teams a full WYSIWYG Markdown editor with code highlighting, charts, UML diagrams, and table merging — all inside the Confluence page editor. In this post we compare it against every alternative.