vizstudio/Charts/Hierarchies & Drilldown/Sunburst Chart
Hierarchies & Drilldown

Sunburst Chart

Sunburst Chart for Data Studio, formerly known as Looker Studio.

Radial hierarchy: concentric rings drill into your structure.

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Sunburst Chart in a Data Studio report
What it is

Sunburst Chart renders nested dimensions as concentric arcs sized by a metric. Up to 5 levels, three color modes (By Depth / By Category / Single), configurable inner radius, smart auto-rotated labels with truncation + min-size culling, breadcrumb tooltip with %-of-total, and cross-filter on click.

What it does

Up to 5 nested dimensions as concentric arcs. Color modes (By Depth / By Category / Single), inner radius config, label truncation + min-size cull, breadcrumb tooltip, click cross-filter through ancestors.

Why use it

Treemaps are great; sunbursts are great when the hierarchy itself is the protagonist.

Three ways teams use it.

Finance

Sector → industry → company.

Ops

Region → country → city → store.

Engineering

Service → endpoint → status.

Setup

Add it in 30 seconds.

01

Open your Data Studio report and click Add a chart → Community visualizations → Explore more.

02

Paste the Viz Studio manifest URL or pick this chart from the Viz Studio gallery card.

03

Bind the dimensions and metrics in the data panel. Done.

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