Spline Area StockChart are used as an alternative to Area in order to smoothen the data. Below Example also shows formatting the y-value being shown in tooltip. Try moving mouse over datapoints to observe the customized tooltip content.
window.onload = function () { var dataPoints = []; var stockChart = new CanvasJS.StockChart("stockChartContainer",{ title:{ text:"Exchange Rate for EUR to USD" }, charts: [{ data: [{ type: "splineArea", color: "#3698C5", yValueFormatString: "€1 = $#,###.##", dataPoints : dataPoints }] }], navigator: { slider: { minimum: new Date(2015, 00, 01), maximum: new Date(2016, 00, 01) } } }); $.getJSON("https://canvasjs.com/data/gallery/stock-chart/usdeur.json", function(data) { for(var i = 0; i < data.length; i++){ dataPoints.push({x: new Date(data[i].date), y: Number(data[i].price)}); } stockChart.render(); }); }