# ELK - custom time
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elk-custom-time/256004
**Category:** Kibana
**Created:** [November 19, 2020, 2:39pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elk-custom-time/256004 "2020-11-19T14:39:51Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@raj.speed1](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/raj.speed1)
#### Post date: [November 19, 2020, 2:39pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elk-custom-time/256004/1 "2020-11-19T14:39:51Z")
Is there a way to disable relative time or last 1hr & enable user to select available or absolute date/time.
Im updating elk every 1hr with some constant parameters, using logstash.
eg : now output\_value =101
after 1hr, my output\_value can be 1231
I dont want to average. So, Dashboard is designed to show current exact output\_value.
Everytime I'm overriding the current report with the latest report values.
Able to view the dashboard as per my requirement, when I select the time as **now**.
But, the problem here is, I dont have the details, for older entries.
So, I stopped overriding
& when I selected last 2hr or last 2days, Kibana is showing all the entries within the time gap & my dashboard is not showing the correct info.
Can anyone suggest/faced this kind of scenario..!!!
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### Author:  [@wylie](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/wylie)
#### Post date: [November 19, 2020, 6:28pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elk-custom-time/256004/2 "2020-11-19T18:28:33Z")
Since you only want to see the most recent update, ignoring all the previous values, how about you create a new index which only contains the latest update, deleting all the prior values? This way you will never see older data.
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### Author:  [@raj.speed1](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/raj.speed1)
#### Post date: [November 20, 2020, 10:40am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elk-custom-time/256004/3 "2020-11-20T10:40:09Z")
sounds good.. but every 1hr creating a new index may endup with number of indexes & dashboard.
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### Author:  [@wylie](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/wylie)
#### Post date: [November 20, 2020, 3:35pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elk-custom-time/256004/4 "2020-11-20T15:35:26Z")
You could automate the "most recent hour of data" using index aliases + Index Lifecycle Management. When the data is older than 1 hour you can move it to the rollover alias [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/index-lifecycle-management.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/index-lifecycle-management.html)
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### Author:  [@raj.speed1](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/raj.speed1)
#### Post date: [November 27, 2020, 9:39am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elk-custom-time/256004/5 "2020-11-27T09:39:57Z")
Thanks Wylie.. Im trying your solution
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [December 25, 2020, 9:40am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elk-custom-time/256004/6 "2020-12-25T09:40:10Z")
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