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Run a TrendsQuery over the date range, then switch the result card's view toggle from Line to Slope. The slope view draws one line per series from the first interval's value to the last, showing net change and rank flips across series.

A line chart shows the value at every interval, revealing the path including dips and spikes. A slope chart shows only the first and last points of the same TrendsQuery, highlighting net change and which series rose or fell.

Use a slope chart for clean before-to-after comparisons, especially with many series where relative movement and rank changes matter. Use a line chart when you need to see when changes happened, such as spikes or dips within the period.

For period-over-period on a single series, use a line chart with compareFilter set to compare true, which overlays the two periods. A slope view is better when comparing endpoints of many series at once.

No, both come from the same TrendsQuery over the same date range. The slope is that series collapsed to its first and last point, controlled by the group-by interval rather than a separate query.

The saved-insight slope display (ChartDisplayType.SlopeGraph) is behind the slope-graph-insight feature flag. A still-accumulating final period is shown as-is with a dashed connector, and the grouping interval defines which endpoints are compared.