# How We Built Time Series: Configuration-Driven Visualization in Tinybird Forward

DevFeed: [How We Built Time Series: Configuration-Driven Visualization in Tinybird Forward](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/how-we-built-time-series-configuration-driven-visualization-in-tinybird-forward-18524.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://www.tinybird.co/blog/how-we-built-timeseries>)

Author: Julia Vallina

Published: 2026-02-09T00:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Tinybird](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/tinybird.md>)

Topics: [Time Series](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/time-series.md>), [clickhouse](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/clickhouse.md>), [SQL](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/sql.md>), [configuration](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/configuration.md>), [debug](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/debug.md>)

Tags: [clickhouse](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/clickhouse.md>), [configuration](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/configuration.md>), [debug](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/debug.md>), [engineering-excellence](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/engineering-excellence.md>), [sql](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/sql.md>), [time-series](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/time-series.md>), [visualization](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/visualization.md>)

## AI overview

An account of how Tinybird rebuilt its Time Series feature, focusing on the SQL problems encountered, the ClickHouse patterns used, and its use for debugging alerts.

## Source excerpt

How we rebuilt Time Series: the SQL problems we hit, the ClickHouse patterns we used, and how we use it to debug our own alerts.