# Customize the legend of visualization

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/customize-the-legend-of-visualization/144863>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [August 17, 2018, 9:36am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/customize-the-legend-of-visualization/144863 "2018-08-17T09:36:09Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![M.alsioufi](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/m.alsioufi/32/52269_2.png) [@M.alsioufi](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/M.alsioufi)\
**Post date:** [August 17, 2018, 9:36am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/customize-the-legend-of-visualization/144863/1 "2018-08-17T09:36:09Z")

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Is it possible to add field name (or to customize) the legend of a visualization? I am using Kibana 6.3

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**Author:** ![azasypkin](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/azasypkin/32/42216_2.png) [@azasypkin](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/azasypkin)\
**Post date:** [August 17, 2018, 10:10am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/customize-the-legend-of-visualization/144863/2 "2018-08-17T10:10:12Z")

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Hey @M.alsioufi,

In a very basic case you'd usually use `Custom Label`, but can you please share screenshot and point to the thing you'd like to customize exactly?

Thanks,  
Oleg

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**Author:** ![M.alsioufi](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/m.alsioufi/32/52269_2.png) [@M.alsioufi](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/M.alsioufi)\
**Post date:** [August 17, 2018, 12:11pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/customize-the-legend-of-visualization/144863/3 "2018-08-17T12:11:06Z")

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Custom Label only shown on Tooltip or the first level bucket but if you have multiple levels of buckets it will not be shown in the legend.  
 ![Capture](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/6/1/61030e7af2ab3ff79f28ac50ee78dbb84908fdc0.png)  
So in this snapshoot you can see I have two levels (version, and result) the custom label is not shown, what I want to show is like : (Version:1.0.0, Version:2.0.0, result: true, result: false)

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**Author:** ![azasypkin](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/azasypkin/32/42216_2.png) [@azasypkin](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/azasypkin)\
**Post date:** [August 17, 2018, 12:45pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/customize-the-legend-of-visualization/144863/4 "2018-08-17T12:45:56Z")

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Okay, I see.

I think there is no good way to do it throw visualization/legend customization at the moment.

One idea is to use custom scripted field where you can prepend value with the label you need and use that field to build your visualization instead. But that may not be what you want though.

```auto
'Version: ' + doc['version.keyword'].value

```

Let's see, maybe someone else can come up with a better idea.

Best,  
Oleg

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**Author:** ![M.alsioufi](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/m.alsioufi/32/52269_2.png) [@M.alsioufi](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/M.alsioufi)\
**Post date:** [August 22, 2018, 3:54pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/customize-the-legend-of-visualization/144863/5 "2018-08-22T15:54:13Z")

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Well, I'd prefer to not create an entire new field just for this, but thanks 🙂

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [September 19, 2018, 3:54pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/customize-the-legend-of-visualization/144863/6 "2018-09-19T15:54:36Z")

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