# Automate visualizations

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/automate-visualizations/45492>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [March 25, 2016, 11:27pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/automate-visualizations/45492 "2016-03-25T23:27:53Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![bishaka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e480ec/32.png) [@bishaka](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/bishaka)\
**Post date:** [March 25, 2016, 11:27pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/automate-visualizations/45492/1 "2016-03-25T23:27:53Z")

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Hi all,  
I am working on a real time project and want to analyze my data in realitime.....how do I automate making visualizations in kibana?

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [March 25, 2016, 11:31pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/automate-visualizations/45492/2 "2016-03-25T23:31:20Z")

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You may be able to code something up that builds the json and inserts it into the .kibana index, but there's nothing automated for that.

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**Author:** ![LeeDr](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/leedr/32/9289_2.png) [@LeeDr](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/LeeDr)\
**Post date:** [March 28, 2016, 3:54pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/automate-visualizations/45492/3 "2016-03-28T15:54:08Z")

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Visualizations are saved objects that show data in a particular format. You can refresh your visualization manually or automatically on some interval and it will show you the latest data.

So do you really need to create new visualizations in real time? Or just show real time data in a visualization?

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**Author:** ![bishaka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e480ec/32.png) [@bishaka](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/bishaka)\
**Post date:** [March 29, 2016, 5:07pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/automate-visualizations/45492/4 "2016-03-29T17:07:19Z")

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Hi,  
Currently I have it set up so that a logstash agent ships data to a different server through redis.  
I have created a dashboard out of the data that I receive. Now I want it to automatically ship the data so that i don't have to manually start logstash and then ship the data and update it in kibana.

How can i accomplish this?

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**Author:** ![LeeDr](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/leedr/32/9289_2.png) [@LeeDr](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/LeeDr)\
**Post date:** [March 29, 2016, 7:06pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/automate-visualizations/45492/5 "2016-03-29T19:06:57Z")

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Hi Bishaka,

You'll need to ask that question in a different discuss channel (probably Logstash).

Thanks,  
Lee

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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:** [July 6, 2017, 1:57pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/automate-visualizations/45492/6 "2017-07-06T13:57:31Z")

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