# Graph by Value

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/graph-by-value/26537>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [July 30, 2015, 2:19am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/graph-by-value/26537 "2015-07-30T02:19:57Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![camarasingham](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bc79bd/32.png) [@camarasingham](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/camarasingham)\
**Post date:** [July 30, 2015, 2:19am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/graph-by-value/26537/1 "2015-07-30T02:19:58Z")

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I am trying to get a graph of a field value over time in Kibana, but can't get it. I can graph hits or number of docs per time interval but not the value itself it seems.

The field value is of type long.

I have noticed a few others asking about this issue, but have not seen an answer yet (other than checking the type of the field is numeric.)

Regards,  
Chandra

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**Author:** ![tbragin](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/tbragin/32/45166_2.png) [@tbragin](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/tbragin)\
**Post date:** [July 30, 2015, 2:08pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/graph-by-value/26537/2 "2015-07-30T14:08:06Z")

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Indeed, that's the thing to check. If you have your values correctly mapped to [number types](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/1.6/mapping-core-types.html#number) in Elasticsearch, they will show up correctly in Kibana for plotting on the Y-axis.

 ![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/2X/3/3d1922d3260c7aeb9623a882f41bc5dd573956d3.png)

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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:** [July 6, 2017, 2:15pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/graph-by-value/26537/3 "2017-07-06T14:15:36Z")

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