# "Cut to the chase" data visualization?
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cut-to-the-chase-data-visualization/138402
**Category:** Kibana
**Created:** [July 3, 2018, 1:34pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cut-to-the-chase-data-visualization/138402 "2018-07-03T13:34:20Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@brandondash](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/brandondash)
#### Post date: [July 3, 2018, 1:34pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cut-to-the-chase-data-visualization/138402/1 "2018-07-03T13:34:20Z")
Hi there!
So, I have a script on a chrontab that pre-processes quite a bit of data to come up with a single metric for my product. I log the scripts results with a time stamp. Something like this:
2018.07.01 23456
2018.07.02 23567
2018.07.03 32756
2018.07.04 33554
I feed these into Logstash and tag them so I can and search for them in Kibana. It all works great!
What I am stuck on is getting the latest value into a "One Big Number" visualization. I want it to look like Metric, but obviously Metric isn't built for this sort of thing. The closest I have been able to do is to make a data table backed by my saved search, then add two term aggregations for the two fields shown above, then limit the page display to a single field.
Here is what I have so far:
Based on my reading it looks like I can change the query itself to only return a single result so that handles the multiple page issue, but beyond that I am stuck. This is what I want (hope) to be able to have it look like:
Help!
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### Author:  [@spalger](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/spalger)
#### Post date: [July 3, 2018, 6:35pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cut-to-the-chase-data-visualization/138402/2 "2018-07-03T18:35:01Z")
While the name might be a little misleading, you should actually use the metric visualization for this. Try out a "Top Hits" metric, which will sort the matched documents and grab the top value just like you're doing in the table, but show it in one big number:
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### Author:  [@spalger](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/spalger)
#### Post date: [July 3, 2018, 6:36pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cut-to-the-chase-data-visualization/138402/3 "2018-07-03T18:36:37Z")
You can also include additional metric aggregations if you want to show multiple stats like you do in the table:
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### Author:  [@brandondash](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/brandondash)
#### Post date: [July 3, 2018, 7:00pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cut-to-the-chase-data-visualization/138402/4 "2018-07-03T19:00:53Z")
This would be perfect! Can you explain how to unlock "Top Hits" for the Metric visualization? There is no mention of it [in the documentation](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/current/metric-chart.html) and as you can see I don't have it as an option:
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### Author:  [@spalger](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/spalger)
#### Post date: [July 3, 2018, 8:21pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cut-to-the-chase-data-visualization/138402/5 "2018-07-03T20:21:37Z")
Hmm, looks like it was added by [https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/7302](https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/7302) in 5.3. What version of the stack are you using?
Not sure why it isn't listed in the docs... Created [https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/20427](https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/20427) to track that.
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### Author:  [@brandondash](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/brandondash)
#### Post date: [July 3, 2018, 8:23pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cut-to-the-chase-data-visualization/138402/6 "2018-07-03T20:23:17Z")
Looks like I just missed it. I'm using 5.2.1
Guess it's time for an upgrade.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 31, 2018, 8:23pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cut-to-the-chase-data-visualization/138402/7 "2018-07-31T20:23:17Z")
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