# Date Histogram - there are too many series defined
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/date-histogram-there-are-too-many-series-defined/136895
**Category:** Kibana
**Created:** [June 21, 2018, 2:21pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/date-histogram-there-are-too-many-series-defined/136895 "2018-06-21T14:21:07Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@Sam\_WCL](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Sam_WCL)
#### Post date: [June 21, 2018, 2:21pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/date-histogram-there-are-too-many-series-defined/136895/1 "2018-06-21T14:21:07Z")
Hello,
I have set up Kibana and I am looking at the system overview dashboard for Metricbeat and there is a visualization that is showing the below error,
there are too many series defined
I have 242 hosts which I assume is the issue but I was wondering if I can change it to display for all 242 hosts?
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### Author:  [@Sam\_WCL](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Sam_WCL)
#### Post date: [June 21, 2018, 2:55pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/date-histogram-there-are-too-many-series-defined/136895/2 "2018-06-21T14:55:44Z")
I have also noticed other visualizations are only showing around 20-25 hosts at a time, is there any way to change these to display all? I cant see an option for it anywhere
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### Author:  [@a5a](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/a5a)
#### Post date: [June 21, 2018, 5:58pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/date-histogram-there-are-too-many-series-defined/136895/3 "2018-06-21T17:58:20Z")
Yes, I think the problem is that this one visualization is trying to display 242 lines. I wonder if you will even be able to distinguish the lines from one another with such a dense chart. Can you live with showing just the top 20 or 50?
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### Author:  [@a5a](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/a5a)
#### Post date: [June 21, 2018, 6:09pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/date-histogram-there-are-too-many-series-defined/136895/4 "2018-06-21T18:09:25Z")
I've just become aware of an update, we're working on an improvement, something like a Waffle Chart visualization which will allow more data points to be clearly seen and understood in a single chart. This issue is currently in a private repo, unfortunately ([https://github.com/elastic/infra-ui](https://github.com/elastic/infra-ui)) But I'm asking to see if that repo can be made public, so people in the community can follow the developments.
Here's a recording of the upcoming waffle chart (among other things) in Beats: [https://www.elastic.co/elasticon/conf/2018/sf/whats-brewing-in-beats](https://www.elastic.co/elasticon/conf/2018/sf/whats-brewing-in-beats)
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### Author:  [@Sam\_WCL](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Sam_WCL)
#### Post date: [June 22, 2018, 7:27am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/date-histogram-there-are-too-many-series-defined/136895/5 "2018-06-22T07:27:33Z")
Hello,
I can live with the top 20/50 displaying I am just unable to see how to limit it to that as its not even showing them when I set the value to 20,
As for Data tables which I have created to show disk usage % for example only shows around 20-25 hosts at a time and each time it refreshes it shows a different set of hosts so it its like its able to pull the data through but it randomly chooses 20-25 to display at a time, is this an issue/limit set somewhere else or something I may have done wrong
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 20, 2018, 7:36am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/date-histogram-there-are-too-many-series-defined/136895/6 "2018-07-20T07:36:58Z")
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