Customize Lens's graphs

[Kadhem (Boujlel)]

Hi, i'm using Lens charts in Kibana. i want to display a graph where Y axis is the timestamp and X axis is the values of My field . But Lens enable me to use a simple Function "Value"
is there any solution? I don't want to use any of their functions. I'm using 7.15 version

Thanks

[ghudgins (Graham Hudgins)]

try using a "bar horizontal" to get the time on the Y axis. you could try putting the # of records metric in the horizontal axis and a break down by the field? would help to see an example of the visualization you were looking to make....every visualization needs at least one metric

[Kadhem (Boujlel)]

this is what i want to have ( i did it in canvas kibana) but now i want either to copy it into dashboard kibana or drow it directly from there

[ghudgins (Graham Hudgins)]

Maybe I misunderstood your original question - If you just want the "value" then try the Last Value option on your metric to return the value directly from the data

[Kadhem (Boujlel)]

thank you this working but one last question. I have a field in the same document called "Primary channel " it's an integer. i want to have kind of link between this graph and the value of "Primary_Channel" so whenever the value changes (i may have 12 known values ) the color of the bars changes as well to make it easy for user to detect the changes between different values.
How to do it please?

[ghudgins (Graham Hudgins)]

This feature is in our backlog, i've added a link to your request to the issue in github [Lens] Support categorical coloring by name · Issue #101942 · elastic/kibana · GitHub

[Kadhem (Boujlel)]

so how am I supposed to configure the break_down filter to get the bars colored depending on the field "Primary_Channel" I'm beginner i don't know how to set it right

[ghudgins (Graham Hudgins)]

pick "top values" for the field and pick the number of bars you want

[Kadhem (Boujlel)]

i tried it but in vain when i select the field it's value is displayed correctly (value = 1 ) but the bars presenting the Y axis disappear as you can see here

[ghudgins (Graham Hudgins)]

sorry but I don't know what else I can help you with. Your documents must have both the "last value" of that field you picked AND a value for your channel keyword to break down like this. Might help to see how things work with the sample data that comes with Kibana...and definitely use "Discover" to get a feel for your data.