# Creating a cumulative graph in Kibana based on histogram **URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/creating-a-cumulative-graph-in-kibana-based-on-histogram/46050 **Category:** Kibana **Created:** [April 1, 2016, 11:33am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/creating-a-cumulative-graph-in-kibana-based-on-histogram/46050 "2016-04-01T11:33:22Z") **Posts on this page:** 8 **Page:** 1
### Author: ![morberg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f6c823/32.png) [@morberg](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/morberg) #### Post date: [April 1, 2016, 11:33am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/creating-a-cumulative-graph-in-kibana-based-on-histogram/46050/1 "2016-04-01T11:33:22Z")
Using timelion it is possible to create a cumulative graph with dates on the X-axis. Is there a way to create a cumulative graph (with or without timelion) using a histogram on the X-axis? I tried feeding timelion my histogram data to the timeline argument, i.e. .es(timeline=my\_data\_series), but it (expectedly) choked. ---
### Author: ![tylersmalley](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/tylersmalley/32/8833_2.png) [@tylersmalley](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/tylersmalley) #### Post date: [April 1, 2016, 9:13pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/creating-a-cumulative-graph-in-kibana-based-on-histogram/46050/2 "2016-04-01T21:13:58Z")
Please correct me if I am misinterpreting your question, but this can easily be done in Kibana without Timelion. ![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/2X/5/53629d3d80103c1117b0a181b976be4ebf95a55a.png) ---
### Author: ![morberg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f6c823/32.png) [@morberg](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/morberg) #### Post date: [April 2, 2016, 2:00pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/creating-a-cumulative-graph-in-kibana-based-on-histogram/46050/3 "2016-04-02T14:00:16Z")
I don't think your graph is cumulative (if it was it would never go down). Also, on the X-axis I want to use a field that is not a time series. I.e. a regular histogram, not a date histogram. ---
### Author: ![m.francia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5daacb/32.png) [@m.francia](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/m.francia) #### Post date: [July 4, 2016, 11:10am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/creating-a-cumulative-graph-in-kibana-based-on-histogram/46050/4 "2016-07-04T11:10:16Z")
Hi! Did you find any solution? Regards! ---
### Author: ![morberg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f6c823/32.png) [@morberg](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/morberg) #### Post date: [July 12, 2016, 1:37pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/creating-a-cumulative-graph-in-kibana-based-on-histogram/46050/5 "2016-07-12T13:37:37Z")
No, unfortunately not. ---
### Author: ![JuanCarniglia](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/juancarniglia/32/11154_2.png) [@JuanCarniglia](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/JuanCarniglia) #### Post date: [August 2, 2016, 3:33am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/creating-a-cumulative-graph-in-kibana-based-on-histogram/46050/6 "2016-08-02T03:33:40Z")
Have you considered a custom visualization? ---
### Author: ![morberg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f6c823/32.png) [@morberg](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/morberg) #### Post date: [August 18, 2016, 10:32am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/creating-a-cumulative-graph-in-kibana-based-on-histogram/46050/7 "2016-08-18T10:32:02Z")
I don't know what you mean by that. Do you have an example? ---
### 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, 1:40pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/creating-a-cumulative-graph-in-kibana-based-on-histogram/46050/8 "2017-07-06T13:40:54Z")