# How to visualize activity at a point in time, for time series data

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-visualize-activity-at-a-point-in-time-for-time-series-data/153315>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [October 22, 2018, 2:00am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-visualize-activity-at-a-point-in-time-for-time-series-data/153315 "2018-10-22T02:00:09Z")\
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**Author:** ![gtgleeson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/5daacb/32.png) [@gtgleeson](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/gtgleeson)\
**Post date:** [October 22, 2018, 2:00am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-visualize-activity-at-a-point-in-time-for-time-series-data/153315/1 "2018-10-22T02:00:10Z")

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I'm looking at log data for jobs executing for a number of clients, on a number of job queues, and ultimately servers. Each log entry includes start time and end time. Is there any way to visualize the jobs that are running at a given instant?

I can plot various attributes by start time (e.g. sum/average/max duration, etc.), but it would be very useful to be able to visualize what was executing at a particular time. And to break that down by client, queue, machine.

Thanks,

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**Author:** ![spalger](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/spalger/32/14092_2.png) [@spalger](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/spalger)\
**Post date:** [October 22, 2018, 7:36pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-visualize-activity-at-a-point-in-time-for-time-series-data/153315/2 "2018-10-22T19:36:32Z")

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I'm not 100% sure this will work in Kibana, but have you tried indexing the start/end times as a `date_range` type field? [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/range.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/range.html)

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**Author:** ![gtgleeson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/5daacb/32.png) [@gtgleeson](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/gtgleeson)\
**Post date:** [October 23, 2018, 12:35am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-visualize-activity-at-a-point-in-time-for-time-series-data/153315/3 "2018-10-23T00:35:25Z")

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Thanks Spencer, that seems like it might be a promising approach. If I can find a visualization that makes sense.

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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:** [November 20, 2018, 12:35am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-visualize-activity-at-a-point-in-time-for-time-series-data/153315/4 "2018-11-20T00:35:29Z")

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