# Add line series circle radius

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/add-line-series-circle-radius/124700>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [March 20, 2018, 7:47am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/add-line-series-circle-radius/124700 "2018-03-20T07:47:33Z")\
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**Author:** ![fxprunayre](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/fxprunayre/32/22478_2.png) [@fxprunayre](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/fxprunayre)\
**Post date:** [March 20, 2018, 7:47am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/add-line-series-circle-radius/124700/1 "2018-03-20T07:47:34Z")

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Currently, line series can display or not circles and the radius of the circle is defined by the following [https://github.com/elastic/kibana/blob/master/src/ui/public/vislib/visualizations/point\_series/line\_chart.js#L94-L104](https://github.com/elastic/kibana/blob/master/src/ui/public/vislib/visualizations/point_series/line_chart.js#L94-L104)

In some cases, user would prefer a fixed size radius not depending on line width to increase visibility of each points

- Default line width with circles

![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/e/b/eb01689190286d05edddad6b11e4febb2d4c307c.png)

- 3.5 line width with circles

![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/0/6/0636fd93b90ff180f80815d976add8810d42d7d3.png)

- Default line width with 5 circle radius

![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/9/5/95175ccd3504e06723bc4205aae5831dc26f8b0a.png)

Does it make sense to you ? If yes, then I can submit a PR with the Circle radius options added to Metrics & Axes tab.

Thanks.

Francois

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**Author:** ![timroes](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/timroes/32/19712_2.png) [@timroes](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/timroes)\
**Post date:** [March 20, 2018, 8:03am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/add-line-series-circle-radius/124700/2 "2018-03-20T08:03:51Z")

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Hi Francois,

thanks for your engagement. If you consider that kind of option useful it's of course worth a feature request or PR. We are currently replacing the plot chart implementation in all of your charts by a new implementation though: [#17234](https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/17234)

Maybe it would be better if you just open a feature request, and we implement this directly in the new chart, since I try to prevent much more chart implementation changes before we switch to the new implementation, since any modification we do now, will in the end postpone the new chart implementation a bit, because we need to bring it on par again.

So I would highly encourage you to open a feature request, but can't guarantee we would merge in any PR at this point in time.

Cheers,  
Tim

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**Author:** ![fxprunayre](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/fxprunayre/32/22478_2.png) [@fxprunayre](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/fxprunayre)\
**Post date:** [March 20, 2018, 3:09pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/add-line-series-circle-radius/124700/3 "2018-03-20T15:09:08Z")

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Thanks Tim for sharing what looks to be the best approach. I'll probably wait for the new implementation. In any case, I've it working for 5.6 branch for now [https://github.com/elastic/kibana/compare/5.6...fxprunayre:circle-radius-5.6?expand=1](https://github.com/elastic/kibana/compare/5.6...fxprunayre:circle-radius-5.6?expand=1)

Cheers.

Francois

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**Author:** ![timroes](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/timroes/32/19712_2.png) [@timroes](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/timroes)\
**Post date:** [March 20, 2018, 3:57pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/add-line-series-circle-radius/124700/4 "2018-03-20T15:57:13Z")

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Thanks a lot for your contribution! :elasticheart:

We anyway wouldn't backport this for 5.6 anymore, so I guess if you want to keep it running right now it's the best to maintain that. I would also for the future rather make this setting a "minimum circle size" instead. That way it would still work if you specify a "Point Size" metric, but without specifying it, it would behave as your solution.

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [April 17, 2018, 3:57pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/add-line-series-circle-radius/124700/5 "2018-04-17T15:57:16Z")

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