# Elasticsearch time chart
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-time-chart/98532
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [August 28, 2017, 9:48am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-time-chart/98532 "2017-08-28T09:48:41Z")
**Posts on this page:** 10
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### Author:  [@Akhil\_Prashar](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Akhil_Prashar)
#### Post date: [August 28, 2017, 9:48am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-time-chart/98532/1 "2017-08-28T09:48:41Z")
I would like to create a time chart which searches a keyword through multiple indexes and finally forms a graph which shows the repetition of keyword through days. Can anyone help me with how to do this?
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### Author:  [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)
#### Post date: [August 28, 2017, 9:52am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-time-chart/98532/2 "2017-08-28T09:52:23Z")
Yes, we can.
You will need to use Logstash, or similar, to structure the data and extract things like timestamp and the text into their own fields. Then use Kibana to build a graph.
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### Author:  [@Akhil\_Prashar](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Akhil_Prashar)
#### Post date: [August 28, 2017, 9:56am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-time-chart/98532/3 "2017-08-28T09:56:46Z")
Thanks Mark, actually I am new to elasticsearch. Could you please explain a bit in detail or if you can provide me any link of tutorial or example so that I can understand things clearly?
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### Author:  [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)
#### Post date: [August 29, 2017, 11:19pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-time-chart/98532/4 "2017-08-29T23:19:35Z")
I'd suggested you start with [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/logstash/5.5/getting-started-with-logstash.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/logstash/5.5/getting-started-with-logstash.html), learn the basics and then come back to us with further questions 🙂
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### Author:  [@Akhil\_Prashar](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Akhil_Prashar)
#### Post date: [August 30, 2017, 8:07am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-time-chart/98532/5 "2017-08-30T08:07:01Z")
Hi Mark I have studied the link provided by you. I have installed logstash and filebeat. Now there is a thing that when we have to give the path of log files I am not able to understand what path should I give. As I have text files which I have indexed in elasticsearch and displaying the results via php interface.
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### Author:  [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)
#### Post date: [August 30, 2017, 8:10am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-time-chart/98532/6 "2017-08-30T08:10:40Z")
If you have data in Elasticsearch already then install Kibana and see what you can build.
eg [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/5.5/getting-started.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/5.5/getting-started.html), but you can skip the loading data part.
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### Author:  [@Akhil\_Prashar](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Akhil_Prashar)
#### Post date: [August 30, 2017, 8:13am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-time-chart/98532/7 "2017-08-30T08:13:53Z")
Yes I have data in elasticsearch. Does that mean I do not need logstash and filebeat?
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### Author:  [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)
#### Post date: [August 30, 2017, 8:40am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-time-chart/98532/8 "2017-08-30T08:40:09Z")
No you don't.
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### Author:  [@Akhil\_Prashar](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Akhil_Prashar)
#### Post date: [August 30, 2017, 11:45am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-time-chart/98532/9 "2017-08-30T11:45:03Z")
Thanks mate.
You are a gem
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [September 27, 2017, 11:45am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-time-chart/98532/10 "2017-09-27T11:45:28Z")
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