# How to Achieve Continuous Data Visualization Without Custom Ranges

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-achieve-continuous-data-visualization-without-custom-ranges/368770>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [October 14, 2024, 12:05pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-achieve-continuous-data-visualization-without-custom-ranges/368770 "2024-10-14T12:05:41Z")\
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**Author:** ![vilakshan2996](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/vilakshan2996/32/138335_2.png) [@vilakshan2996](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/vilakshan2996)\
**Post date:** [October 14, 2024, 12:05pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-achieve-continuous-data-visualization-without-custom-ranges/368770/1 "2024-10-14T12:05:41Z")

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Hey everyone, I’m a complete beginner with ELK and could use some help. I used an area plot to visualize response bytes against the record count, but it's not working as expected. I was aiming for a continuous or more granular graph, but I'm unable to set the interval. The only option I have is to adjust the granularity, but I’d like to achieve finer intervals without manually defining custom ranges, as that’s time-consuming and inefficient. Is there a better way to achieve this?

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**Author:** ![Marco\_Liberati](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/marco_liberati/32/82953_2.png) [@Marco\_Liberati](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Marco_Liberati)\
**Post date:** [February 18, 2025, 9:28am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-achieve-continuous-data-visualization-without-custom-ranges/368770/2 "2025-02-18T09:28:52Z")

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Hi @vilakshan2996

there's a Kibana setting named `maxBars` within Stack Management -\> Advanced settings who set the maximum number of "buckets" for a chart to render.  
The higher granularity configuration (the right-most point in the slider) honour that value (which in recent version should be 1000 buckets).

Supposing a 4k screen of **3840 pixels** wide it means that each point would be a bit **less than 4 pixels** , which is already hard to distinct on a screen.