# Is it possible to link from bar graph in kibana directly into actual record
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-it-possible-to-link-from-bar-graph-in-kibana-directly-into-actual-record/57289
**Category:** Kibana
**Created:** [August 4, 2016, 11:06pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-it-possible-to-link-from-bar-graph-in-kibana-directly-into-actual-record/57289 "2016-08-04T23:06:59Z")
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### Author:  [@zoplex](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/zoplex)
#### Post date: [August 4, 2016, 11:06pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-it-possible-to-link-from-bar-graph-in-kibana-directly-into-actual-record/57289/1 "2016-08-04T23:06:59Z")
If one has bar graph, and you mouse over you can see how many records are in that bar, and few fields that reflect what the graph is based on; Let say it shows 5 record count on that mouse over; Is it possible to (somehow) click or link that bar so that those 5 records are shown - similar to Discover mode scrolling list so actual data fields could be shown?
Thanks
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### Author:  [@LeeDr](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/LeeDr)
#### Post date: [August 8, 2016, 12:53pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-it-possible-to-link-from-bar-graph-in-kibana-directly-into-actual-record/57289/2 "2016-08-08T12:53:30Z")
hi zoplex,
I don't think there's a way in a single step. But try this;
1. Click the bar you're interested in. That should create a filter right under the search bar.
2. Mouse-over that filter and click the pin to "pin" the filter.
3. Click on Discover tab. Now that filter is applied and you should only see the 5 docs you were interested in from your bar chart.
Regards,
Lee
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### Author:  [@zoplex](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/zoplex)
#### Post date: [August 8, 2016, 4:12pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-it-possible-to-link-from-bar-graph-in-kibana-directly-into-actual-record/57289/3 "2016-08-08T16:12:36Z")
Thank you Lee - yes that was also something I was looking at - in essence that is the fairly good approach - I think end user is looking for more 'direct' connection - almost a mouse over type - but I agree this is quite close to that.
Thank you
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### Author:  [@zoplex](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/zoplex)
#### Post date: [August 8, 2016, 7:54pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-it-possible-to-link-from-bar-graph-in-kibana-directly-into-actual-record/57289/4 "2016-08-08T19:54:45Z")
.. the problem is that filters and functions used to create the graph in the first place do not carry over into the Pin-ed filter; For example, I created the bar graph that lists maximum slow query time from MySQL server slow query log files, and split it by host in split graph mode. I see the spike in the slow query time - the max record spiked to say 55 seconds on one host; I click on the bar (since I need to see exact query text), get the filter on the top - but it will only have host name and the time stamp range for that bar - but the max function that is built into the graph is gone - so now if I go to Discover - the pinned filter gets me all the records from that server, without focusing only on that one that I clicked on - since the "max slow\_query\_time" is gone from the filter Pinned filter - seems that clicking on the bar simply does not add all the filters that are used to build the graph.
or I am missing a step?
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### Author:  [@LeeDr](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/LeeDr)
#### Post date: [August 8, 2016, 9:20pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-it-possible-to-link-from-bar-graph-in-kibana-directly-into-actual-record/57289/5 "2016-08-08T21:20:31Z")
Yes, I guess that's correct. You pinned the filter but you were looking at a specific "max" aggregation and it wouldn't make sense for the filter to include that while on the visualization.
If you can come up with a clear enhancement for this it would be great if you would create an issue on [https://github.com/elastic/kibana](https://github.com/elastic/kibana). Maybe a right-click menu on the bar of the chart to "open docs"?
On a Date Histogram chart that I'm looking at, when I click on a bar it resets the time picker to that more granular range. Eventually I get to the point where each bar represents a count of just 1. Then I can hide the chart with the ^ arrow and see a data table. But that doesn't give me the links to the actual docs (maybe it could).
Lee
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### Author:  [@zoplex](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/zoplex)
#### Post date: [August 8, 2016, 9:54pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-it-possible-to-link-from-bar-graph-in-kibana-directly-into-actual-record/57289/6 "2016-08-08T21:54:51Z")
Yes the right click would be great - will do that. Thanks!
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2017, 1:41pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-it-possible-to-link-from-bar-graph-in-kibana-directly-into-actual-record/57289/7 "2017-07-06T13:41:36Z")