# Kibana

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## [Hakabana and security visualisation on Kibana Dashboards](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/hakabana-and-security-visualisation-on-kibana-dashboards/43528)

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**Author:** [@dickepa](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dickepa)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [March 4, 2016, 9:28pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/hakabana-and-security-visualisation-on-kibana-dashboards/43528 "2016-03-04T21:28:32Z")

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I have recently put my ELK stack together and a few knowledge issues around Kibana Dashboards for security event monitoring, if anyone is happy to share their visualization templates I would appreciate it. Also have lo…

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## [Plot time vs data](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/plot-time-vs-data/43470)

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**Author:** [@hursto75](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/hursto75)\
**Replies:** 4\
**Last updated:** [March 4, 2016, 6:08pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/plot-time-vs-data/43470 "2016-03-04T18:08:12Z")

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I am having a hard time getting kibana to plot a very simple graph timstamp vs value of a point. All I can get it to do is plot the number of data points with that value. I have a data set that was brought in from a csv …

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## [Changing CRS in Kibana/Leaflet](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/changing-crs-in-kibana-leaflet/43441)

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**Author:** [@Jon\_Schendt](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Jon_Schendt)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [March 4, 2016, 5:57pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/changing-crs-in-kibana-leaflet/43441 "2016-03-04T17:57:50Z")

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I've got a WMS server running (that I don't own), and it contains a CRS that isn't visible by default in leaflet (EPSG4326). My question is, is there a way in Kibana settings (either at the visualization level or the…

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## [Please fix 10 min tutorial](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/please-fix-10-min-tutorial/43420)

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**Author:** [@Ivo\_Stoyanoff](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Ivo_Stoyanoff)\
**Replies:** 4\
**Last updated:** [March 4, 2016, 5:54pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/please-fix-10-min-tutorial/43420 "2016-03-04T17:54:47Z")

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I am new to Kibana and tried to follow 10 min walkthrough. There are some problem with the shakespeare.json file - unable to download it. Found orginal json file but bulk import to ES is not simple. There is no documenta…

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## [Time field in Kibana "Discover" tab defaulting to "oldest events first" within the deafult 15m interval](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/time-field-in-kibana-discover-tab-defaulting-to-oldest-events-first-within-the-deafult-15m-interval/43533)

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**Author:** [@ksoucy](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ksoucy)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [March 4, 2016, 4:46pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/time-field-in-kibana-discover-tab-defaulting-to-oldest-events-first-within-the-deafult-15m-interval/43533 "2016-03-04T16:46:14Z")

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We have 3 separate ES clusters, all at the same ES (2.2+) and Kibana (4.4.1 - build 9693) versions. All 3 Kibana configurations are set to use their respective Discover tabs as the default app to load, and no customizat…

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## [Getting error in JSON advance for groovy dynamic script?](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/getting-error-in-json-advance-for-groovy-dynamic-script/42836)

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**Author:** [@chandni007](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/chandni007)\
**Replies:** 5\
**Last updated:** [March 4, 2016, 4:03pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/getting-error-in-json-advance-for-groovy-dynamic-script/42836 "2016-03-04T16:03:06Z")

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HI all, I am getting this error while running groovy script in kibana 4 visualization Visualize: failed to run inline script \[doc\['node.ifs.bytes.used'\].value \* 100 / doc\['node.ifs.bytes.total'\].value\] using l…

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## [Improving findability with UX patterns](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/improving-findability-with-ux-patterns/43502)

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**Author:** [@bjornte](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/bjornte)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [March 4, 2016, 11:19am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/improving-findability-with-ux-patterns/43502 "2016-03-04T11:19:56Z")

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I'm interested in your opinions regarding a findability-focused, UX-oriented pattern library. When developing enterprise search solutions over the last 10 years, my experience has consistently been that UX-driven featu…

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## ["Unknown provider" error in Kibana](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unknown-provider-error-in-kibana/43496)

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**Author:** [@Hendrik\_Dev](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Hendrik_Dev)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [March 4, 2016, 9:43am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unknown-provider-error-in-kibana/43496 "2016-03-04T09:43:55Z")

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I try to write a Kibana app and its working well with the current master version of Kibana (Version 5). But the plugin is not running within Kibana 4.4 (and also not in 4.2/4.3, 4.5 snapshot is also failing). The issue i…

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## [How the kibana Internationalization?](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-the-kibana-internationalization/43465)

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**Author:** [@lester015](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/lester015)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [March 4, 2016, 8:36am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-the-kibana-internationalization/43465 "2016-03-04T08:36:11Z")

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Hi everyone, I want the kibana Internationalization, the client want to see chinese on kibana. my kibana version is kibana-4.4.1-linux-x64. thanks! Levi

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## [How to run Kibana](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-run-kibana/43483)

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**Author:** [@arianayay](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/arianayay)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [March 4, 2016, 8:12am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-run-kibana/43483 "2016-03-04T08:12:15Z")

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Hi! I've been trying to run kibana but I'm always stuck on the configure the index pattern. So far, this is what I did. I made an index using SENSE. But it seems that Kibana couldn't see my index that's why I can't …

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## [Traffic light: Red, yellow, green](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/traffic-light-red-yellow-green/43435)

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**Author:** [@blake](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/blake)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [March 3, 2016, 8:14pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/traffic-light-red-yellow-green/43435 "2016-03-03T20:14:08Z")

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I found reference to creating a red/yellow/green traffic light to give a quick status check at http://logz.io/blog/kibana-visualizations/. Is there a quick and dirty (or clean) way to have a pie chart alternate colors ba…

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## [How to show data in discover based on EPOCH time](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-show-data-in-discover-based-on-epoch-time/43378)

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**Author:** [@vikas\_gopal](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/vikas_gopal)\
**Replies:** 6\
**Last updated:** [March 3, 2016, 6:50pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-show-data-in-discover-based-on-epoch-time/43378 "2016-03-03T18:50:02Z")

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Hi Experts. I am feeding following data from ES 1.7.1 using bulk API. \> POST /clust/clust/\_bulk {"index": {"\_index": "clust", "\_type": "clust"}} {"name": "VG", "rollno": "12", "time": "1457005581"} My time filed ha…

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## [Display of multiline error messages](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/display-of-multiline-error-messages/43152)

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**Author:** [@CraigFoote](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/CraigFoote)\
**Replies:** 8\
**Last updated:** [March 3, 2016, 6:11pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/display-of-multiline-error-messages/43152 "2016-03-03T18:11:26Z")

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I have FileBeat running with the multiline option feeding Logstash with a grok filter and everything seems to parse properly and ingest into Elasticsearch fine. The problem is display in Kibana. I have a pie-chart that d…

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## [Kibana reports Shard Failures from external links](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-reports-shard-failures-from-external-links/43384)

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**Author:** [@jsps](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jsps)\
**Replies:** 7\
**Last updated:** [March 3, 2016, 5:10pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-reports-shard-failures-from-external-links/43384 "2016-03-03T17:10:42Z")

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Version 4.3.1. Build 9517 I'm creating a link to kibana in a web app, when I click on the link invariably I get a weird "Shard Failure" error message with templates placeholders, which then refreshes to show the actua…

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## [Kibana + Shield + NGinx - Thrown back to the login screen](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-shield-nginx-thrown-back-to-the-login-screen/43211)

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**Author:** [@111112](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/111112)\
**Replies:** 4\
**Last updated:** [March 3, 2016, 2:04pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-shield-nginx-thrown-back-to-the-login-screen/43211 "2016-03-03T14:04:56Z")

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Hi All, This is my first ELK installation ( just to be noted ). I installed ELK with Kibana 4.4 and the access to Kibana routed trough Nginx. I just followed the instructions in the docs and all was good. But then I …

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## [Aggregate on a term and "join" it to different term](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/aggregate-on-a-term-and-join-it-to-different-term/42560)

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**Author:** [@tpraizler](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/tpraizler)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [February 24, 2016, 2:35pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/aggregate-on-a-term-and-join-it-to-different-term/42560 "2016-02-24T14:35:31Z")

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Hey, I have the following document: { "companyId": 100, "companyName": "name", "email" : "my\_email@gmail.com" } I want to create a table that shows the number of documents per company. So I want to…

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## [Can I calculate fractional ratios for visualizations in Kibana?](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-i-calculate-fractional-ratios-for-visualizations-in-kibana/43346)

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**Author:** [@andrew.trobec](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/andrew.trobec)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [March 3, 2016, 9:42am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-i-calculate-fractional-ratios-for-visualizations-in-kibana/43346 "2016-03-03T09:42:21Z")

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Good Morning, I'm trying to understand whether what I'm trying to do is possible through Kibana. I'm using the ELK stack to track service desk tickets. Each ticket has an open date and a closed date. I can plot ope…

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## [Create Data table with condition](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/create-data-table-with-condition/43261)

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**Author:** [@chenbe2204](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/chenbe2204)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [March 3, 2016, 9:10am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/create-data-table-with-condition/43261 "2016-03-03T09:10:31Z")

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Hi , I want to create a Data table with conditions. I have 2 fields that I want to create a query between them , for example the fields are: status and message. I want all the records that status = 'failed' or message…

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## [Strange request for logstash index in Elasticsearch](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/strange-request-for-logstash-index-in-elasticsearch/43304)

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**Author:** [@yahoo](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/yahoo)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [March 2, 2016, 10:09pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/strange-request-for-logstash-index-in-elasticsearch/43304 "2016-03-02T22:09:44Z")

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Hi I am getting this strange error at the Elasticsearch Console. in my set up: (LS: 2.1.1 , ES: 2.1.1, KB: 4.3.1) Logstash does not create an index called logstash Elasticsearch does not have an index called logstash a…

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## [Mystery field added to an index in Kibana](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/mystery-field-added-to-an-index-in-kibana/43307)

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**Author:** [@yahoo](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/yahoo)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [March 2, 2016, 10:04pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/mystery-field-added-to-an-index-in-kibana/43307 "2016-03-02T22:04:48Z")

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Hi, (LS: 2.1.1, ES: 2.1.1, KB: 4.3.1) in the index setting page that shows all fields of an index there is a new mystery field called "column11". In the Discover page, this field is included under the "Hide Missing …

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## [For time field, create buckets by day for a terms visualization](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/for-time-field-create-buckets-by-day-for-a-terms-visualization/43301)

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**Author:** [@jenoldyoung](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jenoldyoung)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [March 2, 2016, 9:43pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/for-time-field-create-buckets-by-day-for-a-terms-visualization/43301 "2016-03-02T21:43:52Z")

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I want to create a visualization like the one in the image attached, where, instead of a straight time histogram, the dates are sorted in descending order by how many records there are. My current time field goes all …

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## [Kibana loading very slow after update to 4.3.1](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-loading-very-slow-after-update-to-4-3-1/42684)

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**Author:** [@srinivas](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/srinivas)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [March 2, 2016, 7:49pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-loading-very-slow-after-update-to-4-3-1/42684 "2016-03-02T19:49:15Z")

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I just updated my Kibana to 4.3.1 and I am facing some problems in kibana loading : While configuring the index I have selected the option contains time-based events enabled. The date format I am using an field pres…

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## [Kibana 4.1 use tip map always timeout](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-4-1-use-tip-map-always-timeout/43195)

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**Author:** [@whybangbang](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/whybangbang)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [March 2, 2016, 7:02pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-4-1-use-tip-map-always-timeout/43195 "2016-03-02T19:02:23Z")

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we build our log per index per day,and we set a alias on all index,then we set the alias as kibana'index. but we find always timeout and show no result,but other chart run very well,geohash aggregation maybe is expensiv…

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## [Filter search result by diagram or map](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filter-search-result-by-diagram-or-map/43288)

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**Author:** [@enp](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/enp)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [March 2, 2016, 6:52pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filter-search-result-by-diagram-or-map/43288 "2016-03-02T18:52:05Z")

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Hi, I can create dashboard with search result list and pie chart based on search result, then select sector on chart and see reduced search list, filtered by sector value. Is it possible to do the same with tile map?…

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## [Split pie chart legend](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/split-pie-chart-legend/43291)

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**Author:** [@enp](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/enp)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [March 2, 2016, 6:44pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/split-pie-chart-legend/43291 "2016-03-02T18:44:12Z")

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Hi, I have a pie chart with two nested buckets: countries and cities for example. I see both countries and cities on chart legend in one column. Is it possible to split legend and show countries and cities colours in d…

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## [Unescaped URLs in documents](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unescaped-urls-in-documents/43293)

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**Author:** [@enp](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/enp)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [March 2, 2016, 6:40pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unescaped-urls-in-documents/43293 "2016-03-02T18:40:15Z")

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Hi, Is it possible to show clickable URLs in search results. I tried to add something like: \<a href="http://site.com?id=A10"\>A10\</a\> to document field, but I see the same in kibana search results. Can I see unescape…

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## [Freeze Kibana 4 Dashboard display](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/freeze-kibana-4-dashboard-display/33155)

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**Author:** [@Gilles](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Gilles)\
**Replies:** 7\
**Last updated:** [March 2, 2016, 4:35pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/freeze-kibana-4-dashboard-display/33155 "2016-03-02T16:35:33Z")

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Hello, Is there a way to freeze the setting of a Kibana 4 Dashobard. Currently, whenever I save a Dashboard and reload it, the visualizations have moved around, in some none meaningful way. Attached the screenshot of t…

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## [How do I create a navigation link in a markdown widget?](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-do-i-create-a-navigation-link-in-a-markdown-widget/43265)

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**Author:** [@CraigFoote](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/CraigFoote)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [March 2, 2016, 3:50pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-do-i-create-a-navigation-link-in-a-markdown-widget/43265 "2016-03-02T15:50:28Z")

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I'm looking at https://www.elastic.co/blog/elastic-at-rsa-conference-2016 and it appears they have created a Navigation widget. I have two dashboards that are related so I'd like to create a link on each to the other. I'…

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## [Visualizations get dislocated on every dashboard visit](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/visualizations-get-dislocated-on-every-dashboard-visit/43206)

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**Author:** [@ankmathur14](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ankmathur14)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [March 2, 2016, 9:07am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/visualizations-get-dislocated-on-every-dashboard-visit/43206 "2016-03-02T09:07:27Z")

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Hi Team Kibana, Every time i visit my dashboard, all my visualizations get displaced. Every time i need to reset my visualization to their original position. How do freez my visualizations location on dashboard.? I…

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## [Can we fetch date field in metric in kibana visualization. ? I tried but i failed, is there any alternative?](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-we-fetch-date-field-in-metric-in-kibana-visualization-i-tried-but-i-failed-is-there-any-alternative/42974)

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**Author:** [@Amitesh\_Gautam](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Amitesh_Gautam)\
**Replies:** 5\
**Last updated:** [March 2, 2016, 6:18am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-we-fetch-date-field-in-metric-in-kibana-visualization-i-tried-but-i-failed-is-there-any-alternative/42974 "2016-03-02T06:18:38Z")

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I need date field and string filed in metric format. Currently Metric field it is working only for numbers and aggregation functionws

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