# How to playback time series data with kibana

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-playback-time-series-data-with-kibana/179042>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [April 30, 2019, 8:33am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-playback-time-series-data-with-kibana/179042 "2019-04-30T08:33:05Z")\
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**Author:** ![runing\_liang](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/runing_liang/32/45300_2.png) [@runing\_liang](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/runing_liang)\
**Post date:** [April 30, 2019, 8:33am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-playback-time-series-data-with-kibana/179042/1 "2019-04-30T08:33:05Z")

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I have a whole stock market time series data for years, I want cut some piece from the data which has already stored in elasticsearch, is there a way I can playback that piece of data like a real time market is going on.

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**Author:** ![cjcenizal](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/cjcenizal/32/11216_2.png) [@cjcenizal](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/cjcenizal)\
**Post date:** [April 30, 2019, 11:52pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-playback-time-series-data-with-kibana/179042/2 "2019-04-30T23:52:15Z")

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Hi there, yes you can create a visualization and/or dashboard of this data, and then set the [refresh interval](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/current/autorefresh.html) to something like 5 seconds. If you use a relative time range then the time window will move forward and update every 5 seconds.

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**Author:** ![runing\_liang](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/runing_liang/32/45300_2.png) [@runing\_liang](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/runing_liang)\
**Post date:** [May 5, 2019, 2:01am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-playback-time-series-data-with-kibana/179042/3 "2019-05-05T02:01:45Z")

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I will try. Thanks.

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**Author:** ![runing\_liang](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/runing_liang/32/45300_2.png) [@runing\_liang](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/runing_liang)\
**Post date:** [May 5, 2019, 9:59am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-playback-time-series-data-with-kibana/179042/4 "2019-05-05T09:59:31Z")

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Hi cjcenizal, Thanks for your repay, now set the refresh interval and the relative time range, time window is moving forward correctly. But I got two more questions.

1, When the time window is moving forward, the visualization graph is moving left and the most left part pass off , is the a way I can drag back the passing off part ?

2, Is there a way I can control the play speed? Which means I want go through 5 mins in 2.5 mins, which double the play speed.

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [May 5, 2019, 10:00am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-playback-time-series-data-with-kibana/179042/5 "2019-05-05T10:00:42Z")

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There's currently no way to do that in Kibana sorry to say.

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**Author:** ![runing\_liang](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/runing_liang/32/45300_2.png) [@runing\_liang](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/runing_liang)\
**Post date:** [May 5, 2019, 10:02am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-playback-time-series-data-with-kibana/179042/6 "2019-05-05T10:02:57Z")

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It's ok, I really appreciate you guys build this great project.

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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:** [June 2, 2019, 10:03am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-playback-time-series-data-with-kibana/179042/7 "2019-06-02T10:03:00Z")

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