# Kibana

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## [Dynamic dashboard](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/dynamic-dashboard/1714)

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**Author:** [@tom](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/tom)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [August 11, 2015, 11:49pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/dynamic-dashboard/1714 "2015-08-11T23:49:29Z")

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Hi, Is it possible to dynamically create a dashboard. I want to display the same dashboard for different users whose data is present in the same index as different types like indexname/{userId}. Now for every logged in…

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## [How to model ES data to ensure Kibana compatibility?](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-model-es-data-to-ensure-kibana-compatibility/26986)

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**Author:** [@bdb](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/bdb)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [August 11, 2015, 11:28pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-model-es-data-to-ensure-kibana-compatibility/26986 "2015-08-11T23:28:37Z")

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I am new to ES, coming from a RDBMS background and understand that there are certain ways to model your data with ES, that ensure compatibility with Kibana. Namely, nested objects. I will be using ES for a real-time w…

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## [Excluding field which return null in Kibana](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/excluding-field-which-return-null-in-kibana/26882)

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**Author:** [@Saket\_Kumar](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Saket_Kumar)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [August 11, 2015, 11:19pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/excluding-field-which-return-null-in-kibana/26882 "2015-08-11T23:19:03Z")

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I am retriving field1 on x-axis and which returns null and values. I want to show only those which has some value than which return null. I see Exclude Pattern in Advance. Can it be excluded from there?

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## [Elasticsearch and Kibana on two machines](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-and-kibana-on-two-machines/27146)

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**Author:** [@DavidL](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/DavidL)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [August 11, 2015, 3:46pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-and-kibana-on-two-machines/27146 "2015-08-11T15:46:23Z")

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I installed elasticsearch(Along with logstash, and they worked as expected) on a virtual machine, and currently I am trying to view my data on Kibana from local. What is the setup I need to change in the configs? Thank…

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## [Kibana 3 – Not Displaying Historical Logs](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-3-not-displaying-historical-logs/26883)

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**Author:** [@Ben19](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Ben19)\
**Replies:** 7\
**Last updated:** [August 11, 2015, 8:22am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-3-not-displaying-historical-logs/26883 "2015-08-11T08:22:50Z")

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Hello, I have an ELK server with the below stack versions: K: 3.1.2 E: 1.4.3 L: 1.4.2 I have an issue where I cannot view historical logs in Kibana, this seems to be random as I was able to view the data on that …

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## [Bar charts in kibana missing extended\_stats? (4.1 version)](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/bar-charts-in-kibana-missing-extended-stats-4-1-version/26798)

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**Author:** [@tarunsapra](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/tarunsapra)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [August 11, 2015, 6:53am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/bar-charts-in-kibana-missing-extended-stats-4-1-version/26798 "2015-08-11T06:53:02Z")

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Hi, I am using Kibana 4.1, and as per documentation - https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/current/vertical-bar-chart.html , i should be able to see the Standard\_deviation metric, but it's not there in the bar chart …

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## [Kibana 4 as reverse proxy](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-4-as-reverse-proxy/26751)

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**Author:** [@niraj\_kumar](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/niraj_kumar)\
**Replies:** 4\
**Last updated:** [August 11, 2015, 3:39am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-4-as-reverse-proxy/26751 "2015-08-11T03:39:02Z")

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Hi All, Does anyone know how to configure apache to use kibana 4 as reverse proxy. Kibana 3 works perfectly fine but kibana 4 gives me an error. Unable to load "text!config" modules because of an unknown error apache …

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## [Kibana doesn't show the numerical tags values](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-doesnt-show-the-numerical-tags-values/27053)

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**Author:** [@billy6](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/billy6)\
**Replies:** 13\
**Last updated:** [August 10, 2015, 8:31am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-doesnt-show-the-numerical-tags-values/27053 "2015-08-10T08:31:59Z")

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Hi, I'm sending messages with whis configuration\> 2015/01/06 07:15:43.073;1.849365 And I'm using this grok filter in logstash\> grok{ match =\> { "message" =\> "%{YEAR:year}/%{MONTHNUM:monthnum}/%{MONTHDAY:monthday} %{TI…

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## [All dashboards mysteriously disappeared](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/all-dashboards-mysteriously-disappeared/26872)

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**Author:** [@aliostad](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/aliostad)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [August 7, 2015, 10:58pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/all-dashboards-mysteriously-disappeared/26872 "2015-08-07T22:58:56Z")

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Not sure if this is malevolence or a bug in elasticsearch, but all our dashboards disappeared - twice now. The .kibana/dashboard is empty now. Has anyone seen this?

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## [Which charting library does Kibana use?](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/which-charting-library-does-kibana-use/26864)

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**Author:** [@Anmol\_Gupta](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Anmol_Gupta)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [August 7, 2015, 1:44am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/which-charting-library-does-kibana-use/26864 "2015-08-07T01:44:44Z")

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Which charting library does kibana use for making its charts??

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## [Specifying Index in URL as Parameter](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/specifying-index-in-url-as-parameter/26899)

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**Author:** [@StephenGoodall](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/StephenGoodall)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [August 6, 2015, 10:48am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/specifying-index-in-url-as-parameter/26899 "2015-08-06T10:48:28Z")

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Hi, Does anyone know if it is possible to specify the index as part of the URL? This would enable me to use a ProxyPass in Nginx to direct users to the Production log indices or the Development log indices by using somet…

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## [How to search special character?](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-search-special-character/26838)

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**Author:** [@nathaniel](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/nathaniel)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [August 5, 2015, 11:29pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-search-special-character/26838 "2015-08-05T23:29:16Z")

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Hi guys, I am a newbie in Kibana. I have a bunch of logs stored in Elasticsearch which contains IP address, and I want to search them via Kibana. But I realized it is very hard to do so. For say the IP is 127.0.0.1, no m…

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## [Set different src folder](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/set-different-src-folder/26745)

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**Author:** [@vilas](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/vilas)\
**Replies:** 7\
**Last updated:** [August 5, 2015, 8:58pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/set-different-src-folder/26745 "2015-08-05T20:58:35Z")

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Hi, We have Kibana 4 installed in read-only environment. And we would like to modify the src files. So we want to copy the src in different location and modify. But can we set this new location in configuration for Kib…

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## [Doing math on the content of unique counts](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/doing-math-on-the-content-of-unique-counts/26834)

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**Author:** [@bdunbar](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/bdunbar)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [August 5, 2015, 6:36pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/doing-math-on-the-content-of-unique-counts/26834 "2015-08-05T18:36:34Z")

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(The following is a little contrived, but is a simplification of what I'm really after. Hopefully it didn't loose meaning when I abstracted the content, but man: it was really messy to read) A. I have a field, Foo. I…

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## [Timestamp in GMT +0200](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/timestamp-in-gmt-0200/26713)

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**Author:** [@simonrisberg](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/simonrisberg)\
**Replies:** 7\
**Last updated:** [August 5, 2015, 3:44pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/timestamp-in-gmt-0200/26713 "2015-08-05T15:44:50Z")

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Hi! You may have seen my previous thread about populating the standard @timestamp. I managed this although, the standard @timestamp shows the local time. So if the event in a log file says something was done at 13.00 the…

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## [Does Kibana 4 configuration supports logrotation?](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/does-kibana-4-configuration-supports-logrotation/26618)

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**Author:** [@Kuldip\_Madnani](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Kuldip_Madnani)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [August 5, 2015, 3:28pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/does-kibana-4-configuration-supports-logrotation/26618 "2015-08-05T15:28:00Z")

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If we enable log files in kibana.yml file by uncommenting "log\_file", will it also take care of log rotation or we need to implement our own logic for logrotation?

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## [How to display a date as a date, not a long, in a terms panel?](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-display-a-date-as-a-date-not-a-long-in-a-terms-panel/26584)

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**Author:** [@Chris\_Neal](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Chris_Neal)\
**Replies:** 5\
**Last updated:** [August 5, 2015, 1:33pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-display-a-date-as-a-date-not-a-long-in-a-terms-panel/26584 "2015-08-05T13:33:09Z")

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Hi all, I have a mapped field called 'start\_date' that I want to display in a terms panel as a "human readable" date string, not a long. Is this possible? I did a search through this group and didn't see the question…

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## [Running Kibana on Windows](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/running-kibana-on-windows/26884)

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**Author:** [@Jemli\_Fathi](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Jemli_Fathi)\
**Replies:** 5\
**Last updated:** [August 5, 2015, 12:38pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/running-kibana-on-windows/26884 "2015-08-05T12:38:26Z")

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Hi When i run kibana.bat on Windows environment, the terminal exits and when i go to http://localhost:5601/ , i got ERR\_CONNECTION\_REFUSED

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## [Need help with kibana search query](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/need-help-with-kibana-search-query/26719)

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**Author:** [@Or\_Cohen](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Or_Cohen)\
**Replies:** 5\
**Last updated:** [August 5, 2015, 11:03am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/need-help-with-kibana-search-query/26719 "2015-08-05T11:03:08Z")

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Hi I have data like this: {"type":"tag","id":"1234"} {"type":"hit","id":"1234"} {"type":"tag","id":"4444"} {"type":"tag","id":"3333"} {"type":"hit","id":"3333"} {"type":"tag","id":"2222"} {"type":"hit","id":"222…

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## [Enhancement to Discover mode for event analysis](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/enhancement-to-discover-mode-for-event-analysis/26788)

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**Author:** [@grantnd](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/grantnd)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [August 5, 2015, 8:43am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/enhancement-to-discover-mode-for-event-analysis/26788 "2015-08-05T08:43:53Z")

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We use the ELK stack to aggregate all of our service logs, then when we encounter an issue/bug we use Kibana's Discover tab to explore and correlate events. There's one task we repeatedly encounter and think the Discover…

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## [Displaying percentages in Vertical Bar chart with Group mode](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/displaying-percentages-in-vertical-bar-chart-with-group-mode/26815)

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**Author:** [@inderjeet26](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/inderjeet26)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [August 5, 2015, 6:24am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/displaying-percentages-in-vertical-bar-chart-with-group-mode/26815 "2015-08-05T06:24:59Z")

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Hello, I want to show the percentages and counts for the Vertical Bar chart with group mode. The counts are coming fine but not the percentages. The percentages can be shown if I am able to divide the individual buckets…

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## [Where are instructions to create a histogram in Kibana 4?](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/where-are-instructions-to-create-a-histogram-in-kibana-4/26806)

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**Author:** [@mbanders](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/mbanders)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [August 5, 2015, 6:04am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/where-are-instructions-to-create-a-histogram-in-kibana-4/26806 "2015-08-05T06:04:38Z")

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I want a plot like this: Y-axis - count of entries. X-axis - bins of another field of type integer. Example: Plotting number of people with ages 0 to 5, 5 to 10, 10 to 15, etc... Is this possible?

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## [Issue with number formatting, displaying integer values as floating point](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/issue-with-number-formatting-displaying-integer-values-as-floating-point/26588)

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**Author:** [@jmcdaniel](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jmcdaniel)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [August 5, 2015, 5:34am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/issue-with-number-formatting-displaying-integer-values-as-floating-point/26588 "2015-08-05T05:34:29Z")

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Hello! I'm just getting used to using Kibana, so forgive me if I'm missing something. However, I did hit an issue that I wanted to place here to get some feedback to see how I can tackle it correctly. This started wit…

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## [Fatal Error -- Kibana: Unable to connect to Elasticsearch](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/fatal-error-kibana-unable-to-connect-to-elasticsearch/26777)

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**Author:** [@syakirharis](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/syakirharis)\
**Replies:** 7\
**Last updated:** [August 4, 2015, 10:43pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/fatal-error-kibana-unable-to-connect-to-elasticsearch/26777 "2015-08-04T22:43:30Z")

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Please help me, i am new to this ELK \[image\]

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## [Sum aggregation along with Unique Count aggregation](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/sum-aggregation-along-with-unique-count-aggregation/26802)

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**Author:** [@sanju1323](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/sanju1323)\
**Replies:** 4\
**Last updated:** [August 4, 2015, 3:36pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/sum-aggregation-along-with-unique-count-aggregation/26802 "2015-08-04T15:36:34Z")

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Hi, I have a query regarding Sum and Unique Count aggregations. I have fields "Total", "ID", "Date". "Date" "ID" "Total" "2013-05-14 14:30:10.02" "1" "2000" "2013-05-14 14:30:10.02" "1" "2000" "2013-0…

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## [Kibana dashboard for Interface Traffic analysis](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-dashboard-for-interface-traffic-analysis/26204)

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**Author:** [@gugansankar](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/gugansankar)\
**Replies:** 12\
**Last updated:** [August 4, 2015, 1:39pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-dashboard-for-interface-traffic-analysis/26204 "2015-08-04T13:39:56Z")

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Hi, I would like to monitor the traffic pattern in Kibana. Is there any pre-configured example dashboard available?. As I could monitor only bytes count. But I need to monitor the traffic in terms of bits/sec \[ tools …

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## [Can we add our own JSON format query and use it in Kibana?](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-we-add-our-own-json-format-query-and-use-it-in-kibana/26454)

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**Author:** [@vikas\_gopal](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/vikas_gopal)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [August 4, 2015, 10:41am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-we-add-our-own-json-format-query-and-use-it-in-kibana/26454 "2015-08-04T10:41:13Z")

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HI Experts , Is it possible in Kibana 4.1 to write my own query in JSON format and paste it in Kibana Search bar , or somewhere else to search the things ? Thanks VG

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## [Can we customize kibana 4?](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-we-customize-kibana-4/26772)

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**Author:** [@Anmol\_Gupta](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Anmol_Gupta)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [August 4, 2015, 6:55am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-we-customize-kibana-4/26772 "2015-08-04T06:55:53Z")

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Is it possible to customize kibana 4 for using it according to my need ??

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## [Right IPv6 Field,Wrong Visualize Display In Kibana](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/right-ipv6-field-wrong-visualize-display-in-kibana/26625)

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**Author:** [@Roger\_Hsu](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Roger_Hsu)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [August 4, 2015, 5:14am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/right-ipv6-field-wrong-visualize-display-in-kibana/26625 "2015-08-04T05:14:55Z")

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Hi, I'm newbie on ELK Stack and test it about a Month ago. Got a issue with IPv6 field with many colon(:slight\_smile: ,when visualize like this But search this field is right Display full IPv6 string,no separate …

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## [Graph time series data (Beginner)](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/graph-time-series-data-beginner/24747)

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**Author:** [@avc](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/avc)\
**Replies:** 6\
**Last updated:** [August 3, 2015, 12:54pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/graph-time-series-data-beginner/24747 "2015-08-03T12:54:34Z")

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Hi I am total beginner on Elasticsearch,logstash and Kibana. I have a data format llike this 2015-03-05T16:46:10-05:00,36.23041940373926,45.53721791849107 2015-03-05T16:56:19-05:00,33.38862166196716,43.3736938132360…

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