# Is it possible to visualize with Vega/Vega-lite by using saved searches instead of indices?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-it-possible-to-visualize-with-vega-vega-lite-by-using-saved-searches-instead-of-indices/164561>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Tags:** vega\
**Created:** [January 17, 2019, 2:08am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-it-possible-to-visualize-with-vega-vega-lite-by-using-saved-searches-instead-of-indices/164561 "2019-01-17T02:08:01Z")\
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**Author:** ![gyau](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/gyau/32/37824_2.png) [@gyau](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/gyau)\
**Post date:** [January 17, 2019, 2:08am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-it-possible-to-visualize-with-vega-vega-lite-by-using-saved-searches-instead-of-indices/164561/1 "2019-01-17T02:08:01Z")

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I'm getting _undefined_ for my X axis that is supposed to be nominal and I think it's because some docs don't contain that field I'm using for that axis.

```
    {
      "$schema": "https://vega.github.io/schema/vega-lite/v2.json",
      "mark": "rect",
      "title": "Category",
      "data": {
        "url": {
          "%context%": true,
          "%timefield%": "@timestamp",
          "index": "test*",
          "body": {
            "size": 10000,
            "_source": [
              "@timestamp",
              "category"
            ]
          }
        },
        "format": {"property": "hits.hits"},
        "min_doc_count": 0
      },
      "encoding": {
        "x": {
          "field": "category",
          "type": "nominal",
          "axis": {"title": "Category"}
        },
        "y": {
          "aggregate": "count",
          "field": "category",
          "type": "quantitative",
          "axis": {"title": "Count"}
        }
      }
    }
```

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**Author:** ![rashmi](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/rashmi/32/16391_2.png) [@rashmi](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/rashmi)\
**Post date:** [January 25, 2019, 9:22pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-it-possible-to-visualize-with-vega-vega-lite-by-using-saved-searches-instead-of-indices/164561/2 "2019-01-25T21:22:30Z")

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@nyuriks - can you help here please ?

Thanks  
Rashmi

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**Author:** ![nyuriks](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/nyuriks/32/26171_2.png) [@nyuriks](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/nyuriks)\
**Post date:** [January 25, 2019, 9:24pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-it-possible-to-visualize-with-vega-vega-lite-by-using-saved-searches-instead-of-indices/164561/3 "2019-01-25T21:24:50Z")

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Hi @gyau, to help, I would need your data (you could change it a bit for privacy/obfuscation reasons). See [instructions](https://gist.github.com/nyurik/736c34970ba3c32f3fe3d45d66719b3e) . Thanks!

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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:** [February 22, 2019, 9:24pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-it-possible-to-visualize-with-vega-vega-lite-by-using-saved-searches-instead-of-indices/164561/4 "2019-02-22T21:24:57Z")

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