# Is there a way to stop visualizations from refreshing when editing a Lens?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-there-a-way-to-stop-visualizations-from-refreshing-when-editing-a-lens/290020>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [November 24, 2021, 7:46am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-there-a-way-to-stop-visualizations-from-refreshing-when-editing-a-lens/290020 "2021-11-24T07:46:13Z")\
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**Author:** ![aqiank](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/aqiank/32/39723_2.png) [@aqiank](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/aqiank)\
**Post date:** [November 24, 2021, 7:46am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-there-a-way-to-stop-visualizations-from-refreshing-when-editing-a-lens/290020/1 "2021-11-24T07:46:13Z")

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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?

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**Author:** ![Marco\_Liberati](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/marco_liberati/32/82953_2.png) [@Marco\_Liberati](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Marco_Liberati)\
**Post date:** [November 24, 2021, 9:11am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-there-a-way-to-stop-visualizations-from-refreshing-when-editing-a-lens/290020/2 "2021-11-24T09:11:19Z")

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Hi @aqiank ,

are you referring to the suggestion panel or the main visualization there?

If you are using Formula I can suggest to go in expanded mode, which improves performance noticeably, while you can check the progress on this feature: [[Lens] Allow users to not render suggestions · Issue #85518 · elastic/kibana · GitHub](https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/85518)

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**Author:** ![aqiank](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/aqiank/32/39723_2.png) [@aqiank](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/aqiank)\
**Post date:** [November 24, 2021, 9:41am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-there-a-way-to-stop-visualizations-from-refreshing-when-editing-a-lens/290020/3 "2021-11-24T09:41:34Z")

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Hi Marco,

Thanks for the response. I'm referring to both. I often need to edit many things and for every single edit, they keep refreshing and getting the user interface frozen which I have to wait out for seconds. Even when editing the Display name for an axis, which in my opinion shouldn't need to refresh the whole visualization.

I would really like it if it doesn't automatically refreshes as there's no point for me to see the visualizations refreshed when I'm not done editing.

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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:** [December 22, 2021, 9:41am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-there-a-way-to-stop-visualizations-from-refreshing-when-editing-a-lens/290020/4 "2021-12-22T09:41:48Z")

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