# How to visualize enums?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-visualize-enums/232478>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [May 13, 2020, 4:15pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-visualize-enums/232478 "2020-05-13T16:15:38Z")\
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**Author:** ![gthang](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/258eb7/32.png) [@gthang](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/gthang)\
**Post date:** [May 13, 2020, 4:15pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-visualize-enums/232478/1 "2020-05-13T16:15:38Z")

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Hello,

We currently index certain system states as name value pairs along with other metrics(also name value pairs) once a second, every second for about 3000 discrete applications.

One of these system state values look like system\_state={0,1,2,3} with 0 being down, 1 being warm, 2 hot, 3 error. What kinda chart can I use to visualize this?

Thank you!  
Gov

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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 14, 2020, 1:41am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-visualize-enums/232478/2 "2020-05-14T01:41:15Z")

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Is the implication here that you want to show state changes over time?

[https://www.elastic.co/uptime-monitoring](https://www.elastic.co/uptime-monitoring) has a few examples of that that might look like. But a bar graph, broken down by unique states would show that.

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**Author:** ![gthang](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/258eb7/32.png) [@gthang](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/gthang)\
**Post date:** [May 14, 2020, 6:36pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-visualize-enums/232478/3 "2020-05-14T18:36:42Z")

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Yes this seems like it, let me look at it.

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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 11, 2020, 6:36pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-visualize-enums/232478/4 "2020-06-11T18:36:44Z")

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