How to create visualization of field values

Hi there,

I’m new to the platform, and I’m already pulling my hair out over what should be a ridiculously simple task—yet I can’t figure it out. Something as basic as visualizing field values seems completely elusive.

Here’s the deal: I’ve successfully set up the Elastic stack (using Docker) and am collecting logs with Filebeat. These logs include a field with numeric values that I want to visualize. All I want is to create a graph or table that shows the value of this field for each log entry. That’s it.

But can I get it to work? Absolutely not.

The best I’ve managed is displaying a count of records or some other completely irrelevant nonsense. Why is this so absurdly complicated? Shouldn’t there just be a straightforward option to display the actual values of a field?

This is far more convoluted than it has any right to be, and I’m honestly baffled. Any help would be greatly appreciated before I lose my mind.

Hi @i.k , welcome to our community.

Elastic discovery options works for you?

Or do you really want to create a custom visualization?

I’m not having trouble sorting the data view.
I’m not sure how to create a visualization from it.

Specifically, I want to create a Lens dashboard that displays the value of a specific field from the logs.

In the legacy tools, I managed to create a table using the Top Hit aggregation and setting the size to 1.

However, I’d ideally like to use Lens to create a heatmap visualization instead.

Any suggestions?