# Creating line chart using datetime values
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/creating-line-chart-using-datetime-values/114979
**Category:** Kibana
**Created:** [January 10, 2018, 11:46pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/creating-line-chart-using-datetime-values/114979 "2018-01-10T23:46:10Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@suryagprakash](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/suryagprakash)
#### Post date: [January 10, 2018, 11:46pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/creating-line-chart-using-datetime-values/114979/1 "2018-01-10T23:46:10Z")
Hi All,
I am new to ELK stack and need help with creating linechart using time values.
I have 3 time fields in a my document and want to plot a line chart using these values.
Example I have below fields and values
1. Time when system was locked for batch processing (10-jan-2018 8pm)(field name - lockouttime)
2. Time when system was released post completion of batch processes for business use (11-jan-2018 3 am) (field name - unlocktime)
3. SLA time by when the system should be available (11-Jan-2018 6AM) (filed name - SLAtime)
4. Batch process date (10-Jan-2018) (field name - batchprocessdate)
Similarly I have data for last 7 days and want to create line chart against "batchprocessdate" on daily bases using above fields. Is there a way that I can plot a line chart?
Your help is very much appreciated. Please let me know if you need any further details.
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### Author:  [@cjcenizal](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/cjcenizal)
#### Post date: [January 11, 2018, 11:54pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/creating-line-chart-using-datetime-values/114979/2 "2018-01-11T23:54:39Z")
Hi Surya, from your description it sounds like you want a Date Histogram using `batchprocessdate` as the field. This will bucket documents along the X axis into periods of time based upon the `batchprocessdate` field. But I'm confused about what you want on the Y axis. How do you want the other time fields to come into play?
Thanks,
CJ
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### Author:  [@suryagprakash](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/suryagprakash)
#### Post date: [January 15, 2018, 5:30am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/creating-line-chart-using-datetime-values/114979/3 "2018-01-15T05:30:32Z")
Hi CJ,
Thanks for your reply.
What I am looking is - on y-axis I am expecting to see 24hr time range... and on x-axis batchprocessdate value on a daily basis. And as I keep adding data to my elasticsearch documents it should plot a line graph for SLAtime, lockouttime and unlocktime fileds.
Let me know if you need any further details.
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### Author:  [@suryagprakash](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/suryagprakash)
#### Post date: [January 30, 2018, 5:54pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/creating-line-chart-using-datetime-values/114979/4 "2018-01-30T17:54:05Z")
Can someone please help with any possible suggestions, if any plugins available to do the same etc?
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 27, 2018, 5:54pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/creating-line-chart-using-datetime-values/114979/5 "2018-02-27T17:54:18Z")
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