# Kibana

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## [Trend line size](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/trend-line-size/28765)

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**Author:** [@peterbergman](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/peterbergman)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [September 7, 2015, 10:22am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/trend-line-size/28765 "2015-09-07T10:22:41Z")

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Hi, I use a trend line visualization to trend different values over time. I have set the size to 5, but the legend shows more entries than just the top 5. See attached screenshot. Shouldn't the size property limit it to…

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## [Want Pie Chart Grouped By Browser Name/Version](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/want-pie-chart-grouped-by-browser-name-version/28722)

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**Author:** [@bhutchinson](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/bhutchinson)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [September 6, 2015, 4:19pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/want-pie-chart-grouped-by-browser-name-version/28722 "2015-09-06T16:19:20Z")

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Environment Windows 7 Elasticsearch v1.7.0 Logstash v1.5.4 Kibana v4.1.1 My data is an Apache Access Log File. After running the grok filter {COMBINEDAPACHELOG}, date filter, agent filter, I have used logstash to creat…

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## [Is Kibana 4.x still free to use on Production?](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-kibana-4-x-still-free-to-use-on-production/28683)

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**Author:** [@Youxu](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Youxu)\
**Replies:** 4\
**Last updated:** [September 5, 2015, 5:58pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-kibana-4-x-still-free-to-use-on-production/28683 "2015-09-05T17:58:05Z")

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Someone told me that Kibana 4.x is not free to use on production, to use it on product, we need pay for license, Is that true?

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## [How to create a visualization that shows the latest N results of a search?](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-create-a-visualization-that-shows-the-latest-n-results-of-a-search/28706)

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**Author:** [@jerrac](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jerrac)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [September 4, 2015, 11:29pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-create-a-visualization-that-shows-the-latest-n-results-of-a-search/28706 "2015-09-04T23:29:52Z")

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Specifically, I have a search saved that gives me all the syslog entries Monit has logged. I want to add a box on a dashboard that shows the latest N results from that search. Basically, what I get from the Discover t…

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## [How to create a menu for my dashboards?](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-create-a-menu-for-my-dashboards/25175)

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**Author:** [@jerrac](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jerrac)\
**Replies:** 8\
**Last updated:** [September 4, 2015, 9:13pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-create-a-menu-for-my-dashboards/25175 "2015-09-04T21:13:44Z")

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I want to build a dashboard that displays data on server health. Say, RAM/CPU/Network/etc data from CollectD. That's obviously a dashboard that is useful on all my servers, so I want to be able to switch between data for…

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## [Kibana custom field problem](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-custom-field-problem/28506)

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**Author:** [@piebuo](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/piebuo)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [September 4, 2015, 11:03am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-custom-field-problem/28506 "2015-09-04T11:03:52Z")

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Hi, i want to create a custom field in kibana, i tried to follow the instructions at https://www.elastic.co/blog/kibana-custom-field-formatters but when i start kiban launching bin/kibana --dev i get this error: S…

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## [Specify a default index pattern kibana](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/specify-a-default-index-pattern-kibana/28621)

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**Author:** [@andreasviolidis](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/andreasviolidis)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [September 4, 2015, 5:56am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/specify-a-default-index-pattern-kibana/28621 "2015-09-04T05:56:53Z")

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Hello everyone i still have the problem on my new installed debian server with the pattern . I am not able top create this file . i follow all the steps in this link https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials…

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## [ELK stack with poor performance and mysterious client node](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elk-stack-with-poor-performance-and-mysterious-client-node/28615)

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**Author:** [@eacoimbra](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/eacoimbra)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [September 3, 2015, 8:37pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elk-stack-with-poor-performance-and-mysterious-client-node/28615 "2015-09-03T20:37:59Z")

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We began using the ELK stack in our company as an emergency approach when we lose our appliance for log analysis months ago. We do not still completely control ElasticSearch, so we are having difficulty in solving some…

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## [Report logged in user stats in kibana](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/report-logged-in-user-stats-in-kibana/28532)

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**Author:** [@bluethundr](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/bluethundr)\
**Replies:** 4\
**Last updated:** [September 3, 2015, 6:02pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/report-logged-in-user-stats-in-kibana/28532 "2015-09-03T18:02:28Z")

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Hi, I've been asked to integrate our logstash setup with LDAP authentication. So I think I'll need to add shield to our 3 ES nodes. Logstash lives on the first ES node. Can someone please confirm if I need to use shie…

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## [Can't use \_all index with Kibana 4.1.1](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cant-use--all-index-with-kibana-4-1-1/28201)

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**Author:** [@scaissie](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/scaissie)\
**Replies:** 8\
**Last updated:** [September 3, 2015, 2:57pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cant-use--all-index-with-kibana-4-1-1/28201 "2015-09-03T14:57:00Z")

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I am using Elasticsearch 1.7.1. I'm using Tribe Node with three clusters. I can query the \_all index using curl on the Tribe Node: curl http://localhost:9200/\_all/\_search?pretty But I can't query the \_all index from Kiba…

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## [Ganglia Mapping conflict](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ganglia-mapping-conflict/28553)

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**Author:** [@JoelC](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/JoelC)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [September 3, 2015, 6:18am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ganglia-mapping-conflict/28553 "2015-09-03T06:18:48Z")

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I have successfully setup Ganglia and logstash to feed into elasticsearch. The issue I am having is that Ganglia data has multiple types (string, float,etc) for the 'value' field in Kibana. My assumption is that I should…

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## [Are There Any Kibana Plugins?](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/are-there-any-kibana-plugins/28562)

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**Author:** [@bhutchinson](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/bhutchinson)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [September 3, 2015, 12:24am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/are-there-any-kibana-plugins/28562 "2015-09-03T00:24:59Z")

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I understand that there are plugins for elasticsearch. Are there any plugins for Kibana? If not, are there plans for Kibana plugins? Where do we go to look at all the available Kibana Plugins?

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## [Elastic Search is still initializing Kibana Index error](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-search-is-still-initializing-kibana-index-error/28449)

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**Author:** [@BrianMu](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/BrianMu)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [September 2, 2015, 9:29pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-search-is-still-initializing-kibana-index-error/28449 "2015-09-02T21:29:15Z")

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Hi, recently created an elastic search cluster, set up Kibana 4, created dashboards and visualizations and all was working. Today, Kibana stopped working and when I try to restart it I get the message "Elastic Search i…

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## [Can kibana create charts similar to afterglow](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-kibana-create-charts-similar-to-afterglow/28077)

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**Author:** [@wilsontang](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/wilsontang)\
**Replies:** 4\
**Last updated:** [September 2, 2015, 3:53am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-kibana-create-charts-similar-to-afterglow/28077 "2015-09-02T03:53:43Z")

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Dear all guru, Being new to kibana, I wonder if kibana can generate visualization similar to what afterglow is doing for network traffic analysis in Davix Live CD. My use case is doing network analysis over my team m…

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## [Adding Menus/Buttons/Filters in Kibana](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/adding-menus-buttons-filters-in-kibana/28422)

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**Author:** [@billy6](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/billy6)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [September 1, 2015, 10:17pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/adding-menus-buttons-filters-in-kibana/28422 "2015-09-01T22:17:08Z")

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Hello I would like to add a Menu or a button in a dashboard in order to apply a specific filter for the tags in my logs. Is that possible?

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## [Regex search not working](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/regex-search-not-working/28270)

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**Author:** [@bikrant](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/bikrant)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [September 1, 2015, 10:16pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/regex-search-not-working/28270 "2015-09-01T22:16:14Z")

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I'm having mixed results using Regex search in Kibana UI. I have an index with two fields (message and message.raw) that contain same data. Only difference is that 'message' field is using standard analyzer and message.r…

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## [Float number rounding in Kibana](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/float-number-rounding-in-kibana/26108)

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**Author:** [@palmerabollo](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/palmerabollo)\
**Replies:** 4\
**Last updated:** [September 1, 2015, 4:46pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/float-number-rounding-in-kibana/26108 "2015-09-01T16:46:00Z")

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I have many documents with a floating field ("duration") representing the response time of a HTTP request in seconds. Its value is always smaller than one (example: 0.018). I want to visualize the average response times …

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## [Data tranformation](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/data-tranformation/28405)

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**Author:** [@mathiasa](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/mathiasa)\
**Replies:** 5\
**Last updated:** [September 1, 2015, 12:36pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/data-tranformation/28405 "2015-09-01T12:36:33Z")

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Hi, What is the best way of doing data transformations in the ELK flow. I want for example transform seconds into minutes. Is there a way of doing that kind of calculations in Kibana? Don't think logstash is the right p…

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## [Straightforward hardware question](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/straightforward-hardware-question/28322)

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**Author:** [@pdh](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/pdh)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [September 1, 2015, 8:53am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/straightforward-hardware-question/28322 "2015-09-01T08:53:43Z")

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Hi all, I apologise if this question is naive, but finding a definitive answer has absorbed too much time alread so I'm putting it to the community \[smile\] I am building a SIEM system based around the ELK stack. The…

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## [Issue in Kibana 4 loading](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/issue-in-kibana-4-loading/28191)

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**Author:** [@asgawali](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/asgawali)\
**Replies:** 4\
**Last updated:** [September 1, 2015, 8:11am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/issue-in-kibana-4-loading/28191 "2015-09-01T08:11:22Z")

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Hi, I have elasticsearch,logstash and kibana 4 installed. but when I hit Kibana 4 url like \[kibana IP:5601\], I get following shard failure errors from kibana 4 discover page. Any pointers why this is happening? Than…

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## [How to create line chart to show disk utilization](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-create-line-chart-to-show-disk-utilization/28124)

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**Author:** [@vikas\_gopal](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/vikas_gopal)\
**Replies:** 5\
**Last updated:** [September 1, 2015, 6:43am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-create-line-chart-to-show-disk-utilization/28124 "2015-09-01T06:43:03Z")

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Hi Experts, Need your valuable suggestions here . My plan is to prepare a line chart for disk utilization for 10 servers . I have data like , here total memory will always be fixed but utilization will be variable . ti…

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## [JSON-\>D3.js-\>DOM in a table or grid or other visualization](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/json-d3-js-dom-in-a-table-or-grid-or-other-visualization/28296)

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**Author:** [@coderextreme](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/coderextreme)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [September 1, 2015, 4:01am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/json-d3-js-dom-in-a-table-or-grid-or-other-visualization/28296 "2015-09-01T04:01:33Z")

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I would like to send messages in JSON to a function which will display the DOM (JSON-\>D3.js-\>DOM\[SVG or X3DOM\]) element produced in a table or grid. Is there a way to do this in Kibana?

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## [Kibana filter-bar now longer shows](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-filter-bar-now-longer-shows/28287)

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**Author:** [@kevins](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/kevins)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [September 1, 2015, 2:55am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-filter-bar-now-longer-shows/28287 "2015-09-01T02:55:10Z")

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When a user clicks on an item to create a filter the "filter-bar" used to appear. That section of the UI no longer shows. The filter, however, is applied correctly. This is not happening in other instances of Kiban…

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## [Sum to 0 when values are too small](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/sum-to-0-when-values-are-too-small/27331)

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**Author:** [@Gilles](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Gilles)\
**Replies:** 17\
**Last updated:** [September 1, 2015, 2:52am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/sum-to-0-when-values-are-too-small/27331 "2015-09-01T02:52:14Z")

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Hello, Is there a minimum value to have a non null sum? I have a field with numeric values in the 10\*\*-2 but all my graphs charts are at 0 Thanks

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## [\[ANN\] Kibana 4.2.0-beta1 is released!](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ann-kibana-4-2-0-beta1-is-released/28369)

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**Author:** [@tbragin](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/tbragin)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [August 31, 2015, 5:41pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ann-kibana-4-2-0-beta1-is-released/28369 "2015-08-31T17:41:34Z")

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We are excited to announce the release of Kibana 4.2.0-beta1! This release brings compatibility with Elasticsearch 2.0.0-beta1 and a host of other enhancements and improvements. This release is not backward-compatible wi…

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## [How to create parallel dates graph in kibana 4](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-create-parallel-dates-graph-in-kibana-4/27994)

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**Author:** [@asgawali](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/asgawali)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [August 28, 2015, 4:14am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-create-parallel-dates-graph-in-kibana-4/27994 "2015-08-28T04:14:11Z")

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Hi, I have graph in my kibana 4 like this: But I want it like shown below in parallel dates format: Can anyone tell me how can I do this in Kibana 4 ? Thanks, Amit

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## [Kibana 4 3D Visualization -- starting work](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-4-3d-visualization-starting-work/28273)

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**Author:** [@coderextreme](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/coderextreme)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [August 29, 2015, 7:59pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-4-3d-visualization-starting-work/28273 "2015-08-29T19:59:54Z")

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I'm starting work on a 3D visualization for Kibana 4. I'm getting ready to check my code into my github fork. Is there any gotchas I need to know about? I'm working on clearing errors from git commit right now. I inc…

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## [How to import Kibana 3 dashboard into Kibana 4](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-import-kibana-3-dashboard-into-kibana-4/28245)

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**Author:** [@vikas\_gopal](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/vikas_gopal)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [August 28, 2015, 1:42pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-import-kibana-3-dashboard-into-kibana-4/28245 "2015-08-28T13:42:43Z")

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Hi Experts, I have one requirement , I want to import kibana 3 visualization or dashboard json into kibana 4. When I import kibana 3 JSON file into kibana 4 I got nothing . I checked kibana 3 json file is different fr…

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## [Kibana Query for String Pattern Match](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-query-for-string-pattern-match/28058)

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**Author:** [@prashant\_sharma](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/prashant_sharma)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [August 28, 2015, 4:38am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-query-for-string-pattern-match/28058 "2015-08-28T04:38:54Z")

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In Kibana search what would be best practice to search for string patterns. My use case here is How would one go about searching in a large txt attribute. I have tried query patterns as myAttr1: attrVal1 AND sDetails: C…

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## [Visualization vertical bar chart](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/visualization-vertical-bar-chart/27998)

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**Author:** [@simonrisberg](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/simonrisberg)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [August 27, 2015, 5:53pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/visualization-vertical-bar-chart/27998 "2015-08-27T17:53:53Z")

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Hello! I was wondering if it's possible to get the count on the X-Axis and the terms on the Y-Axis when it comes to a vertical bar chart in kibana 4? Best regards.

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