# How to display data directly in Kibana Visualize?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-display-data-directly-in-kibana-visualize/201146>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [September 26, 2019, 6:12am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-display-data-directly-in-kibana-visualize/201146 "2019-09-26T06:12:50Z")\
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**Author:** ![Harry23](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/harry23/32/54890_2.png) [@Harry23](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Harry23)\
**Post date:** [September 26, 2019, 6:12am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-display-data-directly-in-kibana-visualize/201146/1 "2019-09-26T06:12:50Z")

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Apologize for my beginner question.

Kibana Visualize is based on aggregations, however I want to display directly my data, not their average/sum/max/min etc, how can i do this?

Thanks!

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**Author:** ![wylie](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/wylie/32/81794_2.png) [@wylie](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/wylie)\
**Post date:** [September 26, 2019, 2:13pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-display-data-directly-in-kibana-visualize/201146/2 "2019-09-26T14:13:10Z")

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This is a common question, but we don't have an answer in an easily searched place. Here's what I would suggest:

- You can use Discover to see individual documents, but this is different from a dashboard
- In some visualizations you can use the Top Hits aggregation to get sample matching documents
- The Vega visualization type is our most flexible type, and can show up to 10k individual documents:

> **[Custom Vega Visualizations in Kibana 6.2](https://www.elastic.co/blog/custom-vega-visualizations-in-kibana)**
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> A new visualization type in Kibana lets you create custom visualizations using Vega, an open source, JSON-based, declarative language.

- The Canvas tool lets you build a custom dashboard with SQL queries

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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:** [October 24, 2019, 2:13pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-display-data-directly-in-kibana-visualize/201146/3 "2019-10-24T14:13:11Z")

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