# Discover Histogram changed to use inches (from timestamps) **URL:** \ **Category:** Kibana\ **Created:** [February 28, 2022, 5:23pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/discover-histogram-changed-to-use-inches-from-timestamps/298438 "2022-02-28T17:23:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Philip\_Nicolcev](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/philip_nicolcev/32/102424_2.png) [@Philip\_Nicolcev](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Philip_Nicolcev)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2022, 5:23pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/discover-histogram-changed-to-use-inches-from-timestamps/298438/1 "2022-02-28T17:23:44Z")
I have an issue where the Discover view's histogram has suddenly changed to using inches (or what I assume is inches, since it's broken into groups of 12) as a unit for its x axis instead of the usual timestamps. It's like this in all my index patterns. It's possible another dev clicked on something to change this, but I have no idea how to change it back! edit: I'm using Kibana 8 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/d/4/d4d1d0e4dc70d494f604b8aa44250774ad46a074.png) Any ideas? ---
**Author:** ![stephenb](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/stephenb/32/40856_2.png) [@stephenb](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/stephenb)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2022, 5:36pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/discover-histogram-changed-to-use-inches-from-timestamps/298438/2 "2022-02-28T17:36:38Z")
Nothing is Discover is "Length Unit Related" What Version are you on? Have you upgraded Recently? Did you draw those Gray Lines? That looks like 2 Days of Data each Bucket is most Likely 1 Hour Those Numbers appear to Hour of Day in 24 Hours Clock Which make sense to me. Did you change this? ![Screen Shot 2022-02-28 at 9.33.54 AM](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/3/7/376c9daed00d0d393bdbc9184f99960e3776918d.png) ---
**Author:** ![Philip\_Nicolcev](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/philip_nicolcev/32/102424_2.png) [@Philip\_Nicolcev](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Philip_Nicolcev)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2022, 5:42pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/discover-histogram-changed-to-use-inches-from-timestamps/298438/3 "2022-02-28T17:42:44Z")
I've been using Elastic hosted Kibana 8 for just over a week, and this was not a problem after the upgrade. I noticed it today, it wasn't like this last week. I didn't draw any of the gray lines, it's a raw screen grab. I haven't changed the interval from 'auto'. I tried changing it to different values, nothing got fixed. You're right that it's probably not inches, now that I look more carefully. Here's an example of a 15 minute window: ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/c/c/cc848c5bc33608db7df54d4902a149e72b25957a.png) Edit: I have tried a different browser in incognito, so I don't think it's picking up a browser preference. ---
**Author:** ![Philip\_Nicolcev](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/philip_nicolcev/32/102424_2.png) [@Philip\_Nicolcev](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Philip_Nicolcev)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2022, 5:48pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/discover-histogram-changed-to-use-inches-from-timestamps/298438/4 "2022-02-28T17:48:49Z")
When I zoom in to a short enough time interval, it's got a " after the numbers though. ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/3/f/3f41051a5e81c668019ffad0e2b7bcc6761514a2.png) Zooming in even more, it changes to 'ms' ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/3/e/3ec8f99dad87a7215c41fe2670bc02aff13c04a5.png) ---
**Author:** ![stephenb](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/stephenb/32/40856_2.png) [@stephenb](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/stephenb)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2022, 6:01pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/discover-histogram-changed-to-use-inches-from-timestamps/298438/5 "2022-02-28T18:01:38Z")
Ahh that is a new feature in 8 (I am just learning) See [here](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/8.0/whats-new.html#_multi_layered_time_axis_redesigned) (Yes more explanation would be good) `'` = Minutes `"` = Seconds You can turn it off here Stack Management - \> Advanced Settings ![Screen Shot 2022-02-28 at 9.57.55 AM](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/0/0/001ab0890e86f4f3f63cd82cee32489936a8498c.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![Philip\_Nicolcev](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/philip_nicolcev/32/102424_2.png) [@Philip\_Nicolcev](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Philip_Nicolcev)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2022, 6:07pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/discover-histogram-changed-to-use-inches-from-timestamps/298438/6 "2022-02-28T18:07:14Z")
That's it! Thank you. I guess it's possible I didn't notice the change for a week, and it was like this since the upgrade! ---
**Author:** ![stephenb](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/stephenb/32/40856_2.png) [@stephenb](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/stephenb)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2022, 6:07pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/discover-histogram-changed-to-use-inches-from-timestamps/298438/7 "2022-02-28T18:07:59Z")
Oh @Philip_Nicolcev Welcome to the Community! ---
**Author:** ![Philip\_Nicolcev](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/philip_nicolcev/32/102424_2.png) [@Philip\_Nicolcev](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Philip_Nicolcev)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2022, 6:10pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/discover-histogram-changed-to-use-inches-from-timestamps/298438/8 "2022-02-28T18:10:07Z")
Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![stephenb](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/stephenb/32/40856_2.png) [@stephenb](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/stephenb)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2022, 6:25pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/discover-histogram-changed-to-use-inches-from-timestamps/298438/9 "2022-02-28T18:25:46Z")
BTW I let Product Know this is confusing.. you are not the only one ... they are working on some better explanation etc... ---
**Author:** ![ghudgins](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/ghudgins/32/138532_2.png) [@ghudgins](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ghudgins)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2022, 6:08pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/discover-histogram-changed-to-use-inches-from-timestamps/298438/10 "2022-03-01T18:08:08Z")
you can follow along on the discussion on this issue - [[axis] time axis minute / second notation is confusing to some users · Issue #1614 · elastic/elastic-charts · GitHub](https://github.com/elastic/elastic-charts/issues/1614) ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2022, 6:08pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/discover-histogram-changed-to-use-inches-from-timestamps/298438/11 "2022-03-29T18:08:55Z")
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