# Is there a way to stop auto-refresh when editing lens **URL:** \ **Category:** Kibana\ **Created:** [June 21, 2022, 9:39am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-there-a-way-to-stop-auto-refresh-when-editing-lens/307748 "2022-06-21T09:39:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Artur\_Fijalkowski](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/artur_fijalkowski/32/98119_2.png) [@Artur\_Fijalkowski](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Artur_Fijalkowski)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2022, 9:39am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-there-a-way-to-stop-auto-refresh-when-editing-lens/307748/1 "2022-06-21T09:39:29Z")
I'm working right now a lot on building dashboards. My problem is that Elastic Cloud I'm connected to is super sloooow. Auto-refresh on editing lens is killing my productivity becuase eg. changing label of data triggers refreshing of whole graph which is slow. Would be awesome to be able to stop auto-refresh, do bulk changes (I know how they will look like, so no need to preview) and then refresh whole... > [@Is there a way to stop visualizations from refreshing when editing a Lens?](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-there-a-way-to-stop-visualizations-from-refreshing-when-editing-a-lens/290020): > > Hi, I'm using Kibana 7.15. is it possible to tell Kibana to stop refresh visualizations when editing a Lens? It's really slow and seems to affect the UI as I can't edit anything while visualization is refreshing. There should be a way to let me manually refresh the visualization right? ---
**Author:** ![ghudgins](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/ghudgins/32/138532_2.png) [@ghudgins](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ghudgins)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2022, 1:55pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-there-a-way-to-stop-auto-refresh-when-editing-lens/307748/2 "2022-06-21T13:55:02Z")
welcome to the community. can you upgrade? we implemented this setting in 8.2 - [https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/128412](https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/128412) ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2022, 1:55pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-there-a-way-to-stop-auto-refresh-when-editing-lens/307748/3 "2022-07-19T13:55:50Z")
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