# Kibana

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## [Scripted fields versus scripts in discovery objects](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/scripted-fields-versus-scripts-in-discovery-objects/326802)

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**Author:** [@gyannea](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/gyannea)\
**Replies:** 9\
**Last updated:** [March 8, 2023, 7:02pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/scripted-fields-versus-scripts-in-discovery-objects/326802 "2023-03-08T19:02:42Z")

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In Kibana I have found two ways to create an additional field based upon what is in the documents. Use scripted fields in the index patterns. Since I want to convert a parameter that is in seconds to hours the script i…

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## [Getting stuck on load geoip database file while installing Elasticsearch 8.6.2](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/getting-stuck-on-load-geoip-database-file-while-installing-elasticsearch-8-6-2/327289)

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**Author:** [@Alfred\_C](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Alfred_C)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [March 8, 2023, 6:21pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/getting-stuck-on-load-geoip-database-file-while-installing-elasticsearch-8-6-2/327289 "2023-03-08T18:21:11Z")

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Hi, I just tried to install Elasticsearch 8.6.2, however it was stuck when run elasticsearch.bat details as show at the screenshot

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## [Kibana Dashboard is empty with a lot of errors](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-dashboard-is-empty-with-a-lot-of-errors/327204)

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**Author:** [@tagba](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/tagba)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [March 8, 2023, 4:16pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-dashboard-is-empty-with-a-lot-of-errors/327204 "2023-03-08T16:16:19Z")

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I'm new to kibana and Elasticsearch. Could someone tell me what to do here I have everything installed properly I think but I can't see anything in the dashboard. I have siem\_events and siem\_alarm index patterns creat…

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## [Time Filter Canvas](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/time-filter-canvas/327046)

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**Author:** [@puched](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/puched)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [March 8, 2023, 2:48pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/time-filter-canvas/327046 "2023-03-08T14:48:28Z")

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Hello, im trying to do a global time filter for my canvas presentation, I dont know what im doing wrong with the filters. Im filtering with logTime variable, I apply the global timefilter but the data is being show…

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## [Example of testing cumstom plugins](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/example-of-testing-cumstom-plugins/327038)

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**Author:** [@iljaskajrris](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/iljaskajrris)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [March 8, 2023, 2:33pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/example-of-testing-cumstom-plugins/327038 "2023-03-08T14:33:34Z")

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Hi team, i develop plugin for Kibana 7.10 and wonder if there any working example of functional tests for that. Can anybody help?

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## [I have imported the dashboard](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/i-have-imported-the-dashboard/327144)

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**Author:** [@ghorpade84](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ghorpade84)\
**Replies:** 6\
**Last updated:** [March 8, 2023, 2:20pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/i-have-imported-the-dashboard/327144 "2023-03-08T14:20:56Z")

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I have imported the dashboard from git however dashboard shows no data in it , visualization id not found

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## [Vega kibana Dashboard Lagging](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/vega-kibana-dashboard-lagging/327259)

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**Author:** [@Farah\_Bhr](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Farah_Bhr)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [March 8, 2023, 9:56am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/vega-kibana-dashboard-lagging/327259 "2023-03-08T09:56:46Z")

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I created a vega kibana dashboard from an elasticsearch query with different mark types: 2 areas, rule, rect and symbols I created a tooltip too but when hovering with the mouse , I got the Vega Kibana dashboard lagging…

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## [ElasticSearch and Kibana Migration](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-and-kibana-migration/327146)

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**Author:** [@Ramesh\_Ramachandran](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Ramesh_Ramachandran)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [March 7, 2023, 10:25pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-and-kibana-migration/327146 "2023-03-07T22:25:37Z")

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Hi Team, We are in the process of migrating Elasticsearch and Kibana from 8.2.2 to 8.5.3. We have deployed ES and Kibana in AKS with helm chart deployment. On migrating we are facing the below issue. \[2023-03-07T05:17…

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## [Error in installing kibana](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/error-in-installing-kibana/327092)

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**Author:** [@Ahmed\_Khaled](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Ahmed_Khaled)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [March 7, 2023, 10:23pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/error-in-installing-kibana/327092 "2023-03-07T22:23:51Z")

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hello team, I am a beginner in using elastic stack and I have a problem (Kibana server is not ready) how I can fix it please????

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## [Map Alert Rules to Kibana Widgets](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/map-alert-rules-to-kibana-widgets/327127)

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**Author:** [@jsoule6](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jsoule6)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [March 7, 2023, 12:28am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/map-alert-rules-to-kibana-widgets/327127 "2023-03-07T00:28:02Z")

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Hello, We are looking to use Kibana dashboard capability to provide monitoring capability for our customer. We are going to be create alert rules based on numerous custom conditions and would like to map the rules to wi…

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## [Why does this SIMPLE Kibana script not work?](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/why-does-this-simple-kibana-script-not-work/327228)

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**Author:** [@gyannea](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/gyannea)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [March 7, 2023, 9:46pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/why-does-this-simple-kibana-script-not-work/327228 "2023-03-07T21:46:00Z")

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Following right from the documentation: hubEvent.rssi is a String like '-98 dBm' I want to return a number def rssi = doc\['hubEvent.rssi.keyword'\].value; if (rssi != null) { int lastdBIndex = rssi.lastIndexOf('d…

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## [How to Access Kibana time range (timepicker) in a painless script](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-access-kibana-time-range-timepicker-in-a-painless-script/326871)

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**Author:** [@gyannea](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/gyannea)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [March 7, 2023, 3:50pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-access-kibana-time-range-timepicker-in-a-painless-script/326871 "2023-03-07T15:50:55Z")

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When making a search for documents that have a time stamp the user can specify a time range over which the search will be done. It looks like this in the search request: { "range": { "date"…

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## [ES query to trigger n no. of email/webhook based on document hits](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/es-query-to-trigger-n-no-of-email-webhook-based-on-document-hits/326910)

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**Author:** [@Amulya\_Nanda](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Amulya_Nanda)\
**Replies:** 12\
**Last updated:** [March 7, 2023, 3:46pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/es-query-to-trigger-n-no-of-email-webhook-based-on-document-hits/326910 "2023-03-07T15:46:24Z")

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We are using this below code to trigger email/webhook actions once the threshold is met. But we are getting n no.of hits in one single email. Example our threshold has met with10 documents. So 10 emails/webhook has to …

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## [Help needed for scripting for runtime fields](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/help-needed-for-scripting-for-runtime-fields/326001)

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**Author:** [@jreyes25](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jreyes25)\
**Replies:** 26\
**Last updated:** [March 7, 2023, 3:35pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/help-needed-for-scripting-for-runtime-fields/326001 "2023-03-07T15:35:29Z")

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Hello everyone, I am completely new to Elastic and scripting in general. I was told to install ElasticStack on our network for monitoring purposes. I now have both Elasticsearch and Kibana installed. I am currently try…

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## [Markdown link to a secondary dashboard is not time persistent](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/markdown-link-to-a-secondary-dashboard-is-not-time-persistent/326980)

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**Author:** [@Shreesh\_Narayanan](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Shreesh_Narayanan)\
**Replies:** 4\
**Last updated:** [March 7, 2023, 3:31pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/markdown-link-to-a-secondary-dashboard-is-not-time-persistent/326980 "2023-03-07T15:31:00Z")

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Hi Folks, I have a primary dashboard that uses a markdown visualization that links to a secondary dashboard , while the page opens just fine. The time values from the primary dashboard are not carried over to the second…

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## [Timestamp under data stream](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/timestamp-under-data-stream/327192)

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**Author:** [@INS](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/INS)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [March 7, 2023, 2:32pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/timestamp-under-data-stream/327192 "2023-03-07T14:32:57Z")

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Hi I'm facing the case with timestamp under data stream When I put the data do data stream template I can find these data under the different time shifted 1hour ahead. the same data was put to index and looks as e…

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## [Kibana - one visualization should not be affected by user click on another](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-one-visualization-should-not-be-affected-by-user-click-on-another/327123)

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**Author:** [@richfish](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/richfish)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [March 7, 2023, 2:30pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-one-visualization-should-not-be-affected-by-user-click-on-another/327123 "2023-03-07T14:30:11Z")

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I have a dashboard with 4 pie charts, a data table and a search. When the user clicks on a slice on one of the pies, I want the data table and the search to reflect what they clicked. But I don't want the other 3 pie cha…

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## [Is there a way to remove or hide the black "Elastic" bar with the "Search Elastic" box from Kibana 7.x?](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-there-a-way-to-remove-or-hide-the-black-elastic-bar-with-the-search-elastic-box-from-kibana-7-x/327017)

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**Author:** [@quan\_w](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/quan_w)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [March 7, 2023, 1:57pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-there-a-way-to-remove-or-hide-the-black-elastic-bar-with-the-search-elastic-box-from-kibana-7-x/327017 "2023-03-07T13:57:42Z")

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how to remove or hide the black "Elastic" bar in the header ?

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## [Table of contents with parameters](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/table-of-contents-with-parameters/326936)

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**Author:** [@Alice\_Ionescu](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Alice_Ionescu)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [March 7, 2023, 1:33pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/table-of-contents-with-parameters/326936 "2023-03-07T13:33:18Z")

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Hello, I have a markdown visualization with links to other dashboards. (a table of content) I would like to add a parameter (css combo box, a control visualization) and to pass the value to the links in the markdown vi…

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## [502 Bad Gateway Ingress nginx with kibana](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/502-bad-gateway-ingress-nginx-with-kibana/327175)

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**Author:** [@A\_Mightiev](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/A_Mightiev)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [March 7, 2023, 12:13pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/502-bad-gateway-ingress-nginx-with-kibana/327175 "2023-03-07T12:13:56Z")

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I deployed kibana on a kubernetes cluster the port-forward locally works, I can surf on kibana but when set my ingress configuration, it comes back with a 502 Bad Gateway. Please help! This is my ingress configuration: …

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## [Can we add dynamic text to our dashboard?](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-we-add-dynamic-text-to-our-dashboard/327064)

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**Author:** [@Sugunakar](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Sugunakar)\
**Replies:** 7\
**Last updated:** [March 7, 2023, 9:56am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-we-add-dynamic-text-to-our-dashboard/327064 "2023-03-07T09:56:59Z")

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Hi, I am new to Kibana reporting. Is there any way to add Dynamic text to Kibana using any API or using Python script. Thanks in advance.

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## [Clone a space via API](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/clone-a-space-via-api/327041)

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**Author:** [@oliverj](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/oliverj)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [March 6, 2023, 2:23pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/clone-a-space-via-api/327041 "2023-03-06T14:23:18Z")

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We are standing up our first Cluster, and one of the things we have run into is that people have no "user context" for the artifcats they create. Everything is shared by space. So, our plan is to have 2 spaces for our us…

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## [Gauge ordering by value calculated in bucket script aggregation](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/gauge-ordering-by-value-calculated-in-bucket-script-aggregation/327077)

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**Author:** [@tumbl3w33d](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/tumbl3w33d)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [March 6, 2023, 1:07pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/gauge-ordering-by-value-calculated-in-bucket-script-aggregation/327077 "2023-03-06T13:07:50Z")

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Hello, I'm using elastic agent with its system integration to collect metrics and I want to display the disk use per host as gauges. It's achieved by calculating the percentual use in a bucket script: The ordering d…

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## [To find top 5 values and All value on selection of radio button on the basis of same field in Vega-lite using Kibana](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/to-find-top-5-values-and-all-value-on-selection-of-radio-button-on-the-basis-of-same-field-in-vega-lite-using-kibana/327066)

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**Author:** [@ysattvik](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ysattvik)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [March 6, 2023, 10:38am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/to-find-top-5-values-and-all-value-on-selection-of-radio-button-on-the-basis-of-same-field-in-vega-lite-using-kibana/327066 "2023-03-06T10:38:54Z")

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Hi Team, I am trying to implement selection options using radio button to show the top 5 values and other radio button shows the all the values available in that field using Vega-lite. It can be easily explained by this…

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## [Customization in line lens](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/customization-in-line-lens/327034)

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**Author:** [@PappuSingh](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/PappuSingh)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [March 6, 2023, 6:22am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/customization-in-line-lens/327034 "2023-03-06T06:22:15Z")

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Hi, Can we create Line lens as per the attached snap with color?

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## [Deploying ELK cluster on production server - generated and existing server certificates not working](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/deploying-elk-cluster-on-production-server-generated-and-existing-server-certificates-not-working/326715)

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**Author:** [@cookersjs](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/cookersjs)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [March 5, 2023, 11:42pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/deploying-elk-cluster-on-production-server-generated-and-existing-server-certificates-not-working/326715 "2023-03-05T23:42:45Z")

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Hi there, I've followed the instructions found here Install Elasticsearch with Docker | Elasticsearch Guide \[8.6\] | Elastic and managed to get a docker-compose ES cluster + Kibana setup working locally. What's more, I'v…

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## [How to configure the alert rule in Kibana for current date?](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-configure-the-alert-rule-in-kibana-for-current-date/325931)

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**Author:** [@Shiva\_Subramaniyan](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Shiva_Subramaniyan)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [March 5, 2023, 11:39am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-configure-the-alert-rule-in-kibana-for-current-date/325931 "2023-03-05T11:39:14Z")

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Hi, We have a alert rule configured in Kibana with the elasticsearch query to send email alerts based on "message keyword" that the logs receive in Kibana Now our requirement is to send the alert on the "current date" …

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## [Kibana tag cloud does not count frequency of words in a text field](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-tag-cloud-does-not-count-frequency-of-words-in-a-text-field/326982)

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**Author:** [@Mehran\_Goodarzi](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Mehran_Goodarzi)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [March 5, 2023, 2:38am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-tag-cloud-does-not-count-frequency-of-words-in-a-text-field/326982 "2023-03-05T02:38:54Z")

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Hi There, Kibana tag cloud does not count frequency of words in my text field let's say i have a field named : Ticket\_text.keyword and here are some examples: hello world here I am hello everybody this is blah in th…

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## [Kibana configure alert based upon dynamic value](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-configure-alert-based-upon-dynamic-value/326132)

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**Author:** [@Raj4](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Raj4)\
**Replies:** 9\
**Last updated:** [March 4, 2023, 3:15am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-configure-alert-based-upon-dynamic-value/326132 "2023-03-04T03:15:35Z")

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Hello All, I am new to Kibana, I need to achieve the below. Please advise. I am using formula to calculate one column data, I want to alert only if the calculated column value is greater than 5% difference. Example: …

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## [Multiple data different dates](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/multiple-data-different-dates/326918)

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**Author:** [@TaNTal](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/TaNTal)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [March 4, 2023, 12:03am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/multiple-data-different-dates/326918 "2023-03-04T00:03:07Z")

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How to search for data with different start date in multiple databases?

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