Histogram: auto-skip x tick labels to avoid overlap (#45996) (#46000)

(cherry picked from commit b491d6b4dc)

Co-authored-by: Leon Sorokin <leeoniya@gmail.com>

public/app/plugins/panel/histogram/Histogram.tsx

@@ -15,7 +15,15 @@ import {
   getFieldSeriesColor,
   GrafanaTheme2,
 } from '@grafana/data';
-import { Themeable2, UPlotConfigBuilder, UPlotChart, VizLayout, PlotLegend } from '@grafana/ui';
+import {
+  Themeable2,
+  UPlotConfigBuilder,
+  UPlotChart,
+  VizLayout,
+  PlotLegend,
+  measureText,
+  UPLOT_AXIS_FONT_SIZE,
+} from '@grafana/ui';
 
 import {
   histogramBucketSizes,
@@ -119,7 +127,20 @@ const prepConfig = (frame: DataFrame, theme: GrafanaTheme2) => {
     placement: AxisPlacement.Bottom,
     incrs: histogramBucketSizes,
     splits: xSplits,
-    values: (u: uPlot, vals: any[]) => vals.map(xAxisFormatter),
+    values: (u: uPlot, splits: any[]) => {
+      const tickLabels = splits.map(xAxisFormatter);
+
+      const maxWidth = tickLabels.reduce(
+        (curMax, label) => Math.max(measureText(label, UPLOT_AXIS_FONT_SIZE).width, curMax),
+        0
+      );
+
+      const labelSpacing = 10;
+      const maxCount = u.bbox.width / ((maxWidth + labelSpacing) * devicePixelRatio);
+      const keepMod = Math.ceil(tickLabels.length / maxCount);
+
+      return tickLabels.map((label, i) => (i % keepMod === 0 ? label : null));
+    },
     //incrs: () => [0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10].map((mult) => mult * bucketSize),
     //splits: config.xSplits,
     //values: config.xValues,