# Adding current timestamp marker to "Time Series" in "Visual Builder"

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/adding-current-timestamp-marker-to-time-series-in-visual-builder/158747>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [November 29, 2018, 11:49am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/adding-current-timestamp-marker-to-time-series-in-visual-builder/158747 "2018-11-29T11:49:01Z")\
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**Author:** ![vicpav](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/9de053/32.png) [@vicpav](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/vicpav)\
**Post date:** [November 29, 2018, 11:49am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/adding-current-timestamp-marker-to-time-series-in-visual-builder/158747/1 "2018-11-29T11:49:02Z")

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Hi,

I am using "Visual Builder" ("Time Series") visualization to plot the data that describes the number of orders (both already handled as well as pre-orders) over time. Since the time scale covers both the past and the near future, it would be very useful to display a marker with current timestamp. However I could not figure out how to do it as there seem to be no such a setting in "Data" nor in "Panel Options". 🤔

Am I missing something obvious there? If not, would it be possible to generate such a marker through "Annotations"?

Any ideas or suggestions are very much welcome! 🙂

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**Author:** ![lukas](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/lukas/32/6812_2.png) [@lukas](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/lukas)\
**Post date:** [November 29, 2018, 4:08pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/adding-current-timestamp-marker-to-time-series-in-visual-builder/158747/2 "2018-11-29T16:08:37Z")

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Unfortunately, I don't believe there is currently a way to do this. If you'd like, you can open an enhancement request in our GitHub repo: [https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/new?template=Feature\_request.md](https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/new?template=Feature_request.md)

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**Author:** ![vicpav](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/9de053/32.png) [@vicpav](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/vicpav)\
**Post date:** [November 30, 2018, 8:12am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/adding-current-timestamp-marker-to-time-series-in-visual-builder/158747/3 "2018-11-30T08:12:06Z")

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Thank you, @lukas!

I have created the feature request [elastic/kibana#26459](https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/26459) and those who are interested in this feature could follow the progress through that GitHub issue.

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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:** [December 28, 2018, 8:12am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/adding-current-timestamp-marker-to-time-series-in-visual-builder/158747/4 "2018-12-28T08:12:08Z")

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