# Can i change the Y axis to represent timestamp based data?
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-i-change-the-y-axis-to-represent-timestamp-based-data/150814
**Category:** Kibana
**Created:** [October 3, 2018, 5:03am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-i-change-the-y-axis-to-represent-timestamp-based-data/150814 "2018-10-03T05:03:33Z")
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### Author:  [@chidori](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/chidori)
#### Post date: [October 3, 2018, 5:03am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-i-change-the-y-axis-to-represent-timestamp-based-data/150814/1 "2018-10-03T05:03:34Z")
I am relatively new to elasticsearch and trying my best to understand Elastic stack by referring docs and videos. I have setup heartbeat to monitor a list of hosts ( ICMP monitoring ). I am able to successfully connect heartbeat data with elasticsearch. While the inbuilt dashboards for heartbeat looks good enough, what I am interested in is a simple bar chart where the one axis should be timestamp which can be broken down into hours/minutes/days while the other axis would talk about the host and their ping response. I am interested in something like the auto generated visualization seen under "Discover" for a heartbeat data.
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### Author:  [@thekm1](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/thekm1)
#### Post date: [October 3, 2018, 8:58am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-i-change-the-y-axis-to-represent-timestamp-based-data/150814/2 "2018-10-03T08:58:38Z")
Hi muthu saravana
If i understand you correctly then you want to have the count in y axis (like in discover) and the timestamp in the x axis where you can break down.
Follow these steps:
go to visualize:
click on the plus and select vertical bar
choose heartbeat-\* on the lefthandside
You should be in the verticalbar visualiser now: 
On the left hand side under buckets choose the x-Axis and change these as config
Press the play button on the left handside
interval changings under Buckets/Interval (use auto if possible)
For more inf, see [docs](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/current/createvis.html)
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### Author:  [@chidori](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/chidori)
#### Post date: [October 3, 2018, 10:42am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-i-change-the-y-axis-to-represent-timestamp-based-data/150814/3 "2018-10-03T10:42:57Z")
@thekm1 Thanks for your response. Sorry if did mention it clearly in my original post. I am using heartbeat module to monitor my machines are up or down. I am looking out for a chart where Y-axis would be the timestamp and X-axis the hosts. It should be a timestamp vs host chart with their UP and DOWN status highlighted using some colors.
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### Author:  [@thekm1](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/thekm1)
#### Post date: [October 8, 2018, 9:43am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-i-change-the-y-axis-to-represent-timestamp-based-data/150814/4 "2018-10-08T09:43:10Z")
hi muthu saravana,
I'm not sure if this matches your requirement, but give it a try.
Set the heaptmap vis. with the following config
--x-Axis with Term aggregation on the different type of hosts
--y-Axis with status type term agg
--split-chart in row with a timestamp agg.
you will get something like this. (i couldn't find the color changing...)
Let me know if my answer helped you.
regards thekm1
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [November 5, 2018, 9:43am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-i-change-the-y-axis-to-represent-timestamp-based-data/150814/5 "2018-11-05T09:43:11Z")
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