# How to create a new visualization (host and time) displaying shutdown, startup, etc events?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-create-a-new-visualization-host-and-time-displaying-shutdown-startup-etc-events/120698>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [February 20, 2018, 5:46pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-create-a-new-visualization-host-and-time-displaying-shutdown-startup-etc-events/120698 "2018-02-20T17:46:51Z")\
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**Author:** ![freed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b9bd4f/32.png) [@freed](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/freed)\
**Post date:** [February 20, 2018, 5:46pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-create-a-new-visualization-host-and-time-displaying-shutdown-startup-etc-events/120698/1 "2018-02-20T17:46:51Z")

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Hi

I would like to create a visualization that displays hostnames on the y axis, and time on the x axis. This graph would display events in the form of dots (hopefully customizable by color or shape) that correspond to events (startup, shutdown, etc). Finally if possible, when hovering the mouse over the events, a small popup with custom data would appear that are part of the same event (version, servicename, etc). Is this possible to create? What type of graph is this? Is there an example somewhere that shows how to do this?

Thanks  
Francis

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**Author:** ![ppisljar](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/ppisljar/32/11588_2.png) [@ppisljar](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ppisljar)\
**Post date:** [February 21, 2018, 9:53am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-create-a-new-visualization-host-and-time-displaying-shutdown-startup-etc-events/120698/2 "2018-02-21T09:53:37Z")

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you could try to achieve this using vega visualization.

please take a look at this blog post for some hints:

> **[Scatterplot in Kibana using Vega](https://www.timroes.de/2018/02/05/kibana-vega-scatterplot/)**
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> Tutorial on how to use Kibana's Vega visualization to create a scatter plot in
> Kibana.

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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 21, 2018, 9:53am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-create-a-new-visualization-host-and-time-displaying-shutdown-startup-etc-events/120698/3 "2018-03-21T09:53:51Z")

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