# Change interval while viewing a dashboard, without editing? **URL:** \ **Category:** Kibana\ **Created:** [July 20, 2021, 12:06pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/change-interval-while-viewing-a-dashboard-without-editing/279158 "2021-07-20T12:06:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![GrahamHannington](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/grahamhannington/32/4404_2.png) [@GrahamHannington](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/GrahamHannington)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2021, 12:06pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/change-interval-while-viewing-a-dashboard-without-editing/279158/1 "2021-07-20T12:06:53Z")
## Background to this question Feedback from a user viewing a Kibana dashboard I've developed: > can we set the interval of time-based charts to 1 hour? An excerpt of my response: > Yes. However, I have deliberately set the "chunk" size—"interval", also known as "bucket size"—of time-based charts in these dashboards to "\>=1m". Meaning: let Kibana decide the interval ("auto") based on the time range of the dashboard, but no smaller than 1 minute; that is, no smaller than the interval of the actual data. > > So: the interval depends on the time range of the dashboard, down to a minimum interval of 1 minute. For example, if you set the time range of the dashboard to "Last 3 days", you'll get an interval of 60 minutes. > > I _could_ fix the interval to a specific duration, such as 1 hour. And I can see that per-hour intervals might be entirely appropriate and desirable for some use cases. However, doing that limits the flexibility of the dashboard for other use cases: > > - For a long-enough time range, the number of buckets will exceed the maximum number that Kibana will display on a chart, and the chart will display an error message instead of data. > > - For time ranges less than the interval, the chart will show only a single data point, rather than scaling to a more granular interval. (Which is what happens now if you specify a time range of a minute or less.) > > These dashboards are currently deliberately designed to adapt to any time range, with an interval down to the granularity of the underlying data. (In case you're wondering, I haven't seen any documentation indicating it's possible to specify a _maximum_ interval.) ## My question/suggestion I don't want to create duplicate sets of dashboards: one set with "\>=1m", another with a fixed interval, such as "1h". This seems to me a reason to introduce a "global interval" on a dashboard, so that users who are interested in a specific interval can set that value (reflected in a URL parameter), and have all time-based charts honor that interval, without needing to create a new set of dashboards with all time-based charts set to that particular fixed interval. Thoughts, feedback; pushback? ---
**Author:** ![Marta\_Bondyra](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/marta_bondyra/32/102122_2.png) [@Marta\_Bondyra](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Marta_Bondyra)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2021, 12:33pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/change-interval-while-viewing-a-dashboard-without-editing/279158/2 "2021-07-20T12:33:50Z")
Hi @GrahamHannington this is an interesting idea, could you also create a [github issue](https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/new?assignees=&labels=&template=Feature_request.md) and link it here? This way you will get more visibility among Kibana engineers. ---
**Author:** ![GrahamHannington](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/grahamhannington/32/4404_2.png) [@GrahamHannington](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/GrahamHannington)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2021, 7:50am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/change-interval-while-viewing-a-dashboard-without-editing/279158/3 "2021-07-21T07:50:26Z")
Hi @Marta_Bondyra, Done: "Change interval while viewing a dashboard, without editing?", [#106357](https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/106357) ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2021, 7:51am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/change-interval-while-viewing-a-dashboard-without-editing/279158/4 "2021-08-18T07:51:15Z")
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