# Help visualising uptime data in Kibana **URL:** \ **Category:** Kibana\ **Created:** [April 1, 2020, 11:28pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/help-visualising-uptime-data-in-kibana/226136 "2020-04-01T23:28:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![johnwood](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/johnwood/32/78918_2.png) [@johnwood](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/johnwood)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2020, 11:28pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/help-visualising-uptime-data-in-kibana/226136/1 "2020-04-01T23:28:50Z")
Hi - I am ingesting uptime messages from some custom code that provides me with `UptimeXML=` 's' is the start of an uptime period and 'e' is the end of that same period. Periods can be of different durations. From this, I can use logstash to parse out the start and end epoch time of an 'up period'. I don't get anything for 'down periods' - they are implied by their absence. Using these events I would like to plot an 'uptime visualization' in Kibana - line or bar - showing the uptime periods above the horizontal axis and the implied downtime periods on the horizontal axis. Time running normally from left to right. I am struggling to see how to do that - any bright sparks out there able to point me in the right direction so I can make a start? Many thanks ---
**Author:** ![matw](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/matw/32/13913_2.png) [@matw](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/matw)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2020, 9:38am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/help-visualising-uptime-data-in-kibana/226136/2 "2020-04-03T09:38:14Z")
Hi and welcome back! So when I hear about update messages, I think of a server frequently sending messages to Elasticsearch, and you could use a date histogram to visualize those messages. the down periods would be the gap. But your system is different, you don't get the messages frequently, but in a kind of bulk, with an start and and end, that can be unlike the example you provided differently, do I understand this correctly? thx & best, Matthias ---
**Author:** ![johnwood](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/johnwood/32/78918_2.png) [@johnwood](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/johnwood)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2020, 10:03pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/help-visualising-uptime-data-in-kibana/226136/3 "2020-04-03T22:03:52Z")
Hi Matthias - Thanks for the message! yes, a perfect description of what I am getting. Happy that the downtime will appear as 'gaps' but really strugging to see how I go about creating events from logstash that will allow me to visualise the uptime periods which come in with both a start and stop time? ---
**Author:** ![matw](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/matw/32/13913_2.png) [@matw](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/matw)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2020, 7:37am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/help-visualising-uptime-data-in-kibana/226136/4 "2020-04-06T07:37:57Z")
You could use the logstash ruby filter to analyze the input record, and to generate additional events if necessary: [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/logstash/current/plugins-filters-ruby.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/logstash/current/plugins-filters-ruby.html) so if you want an uptime record every 5 seconds, and you get an record with a duration of 10s, you could add another record with a timestamp + 5s. then it would be easy to build a visualization. Best, Matthias ---
**Author:** ![johnwood](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/johnwood/32/78918_2.png) [@johnwood](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/johnwood)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2020, 11:10pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/help-visualising-uptime-data-in-kibana/226136/5 "2020-04-06T23:10:29Z")
Thanks Matthias I wondered if regenerating 'normal' uptime events might be the way to go. I'll have a play - appreciate your pointing me in the right direction and its good to know I'm not missing something really obvious! Thanks again, John ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2020, 11:10pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/help-visualising-uptime-data-in-kibana/226136/6 "2020-05-04T23:10:31Z")
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