# Escalation of events logs

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/escalation-of-events-logs/170068>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [February 26, 2019, 8:55pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/escalation-of-events-logs/170068 "2019-02-26T20:55:53Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![rweeber](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b38774/32.png) [@rweeber](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/rweeber)\
**Post date:** [February 26, 2019, 8:55pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/escalation-of-events-logs/170068/1 "2019-02-26T20:55:53Z")

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Hello Elastic community,  
I've been struggling to find a way to identify what I like to call "escalations" in my dataset using the Kibana visualizations.

Basically I have event logs from several machines in our infrastructure that contain a field called "severity" with 5 different values/categories ["Normal", "Minor", "Warning", "Major", "Critical"].  
What I want to do is create a visualization that easily identifies machines that have "escalating" severities over time.

I have attached a rudimentary picture as to what I imagine it could look like but I am open to other approaches as well.

 ![esclatating%20severity](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/5/1/51b4fd0644c85cf5945f74be1fee12341ecf7592.png)

In the picture you can see that Computer 3 and Computer 5 have this "escalation" I'm talking about where over time their log entries starting to increase in severity.

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**Author:** ![stiltz](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/stiltz/32/39714_2.png) [@stiltz](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/stiltz)\
**Post date:** [February 27, 2019, 2:29am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/escalation-of-events-logs/170068/2 "2019-02-27T02:29:58Z")

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I think what you show in your drawing is possible, however based on your description I don't think that drawing captures what you are actually looking for? Based on your description I would think Computer **X** could have counts of multiple severities each month so a single data point for each month wouldn't tell the whole story. Correct?

If so then a multi-line chart may not be the best option for what you are trying to show.

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [March 27, 2019, 2:30am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/escalation-of-events-logs/170068/3 "2019-03-27T02:30:01Z")

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