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- See global variables Grafana documentation, for what the variables do and how they behave.
- It’s not the same, it’s the difference between having the “average value” of every minute (or any other time interval 2m|5m|1h|…) versus just the global average. So no, the chart won’t be the same at all as it will display just one point.
In case you are learning InfluxQL, I suggest you start from the docs here