# Issue with Timelion

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/issue-with-timelion/168406>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Tags:** timelion\
**Created:** [February 14, 2019, 12:04pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/issue-with-timelion/168406 "2019-02-14T12:04:39Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 8\
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**Author:** ![Alvaro\_Garrido](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/919ad9/32.png) [@Alvaro\_Garrido](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Alvaro_Garrido)\
**Post date:** [February 14, 2019, 12:04pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/issue-with-timelion/168406/1 "2019-02-14T12:04:39Z")

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Is it normal if I am able to see the documents I recently created in Elasticsearch in the Discover tab, but it is not to graph the parameters in Timelion? I can see these fields in Kibana Visualize graphs, though.

System:  
I am using the new 6.6.0 version running in KDE Neon (based on Ubuntu 18.04)

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**Author:** ![jbudz](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/jbudz/32/45922_2.png) [@jbudz](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jbudz)\
**Post date:** [February 14, 2019, 5:58pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/issue-with-timelion/168406/2 "2019-02-14T17:58:51Z")

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Hey, it is. Timelion by default will remove partial buckets. For example if we have buckets evenly spaced by 30 minutes, and a remaining bucket that only contains 15 minutes worth of data timelion won't show it.

The `trim` function in timelion can be used to override this (`.trim(0, 0)`

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**Author:** ![Alvaro\_Garrido](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/919ad9/32.png) [@Alvaro\_Garrido](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Alvaro_Garrido)\
**Post date:** [February 21, 2019, 6:03pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/issue-with-timelion/168406/3 "2019-02-21T18:03:58Z")

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Thank you for your answer. I have just tried it, but I had one error:  
Timelion: Error: in cell #1: args[0] must be a seriesList

Is this a signal that I am ingesting the data incorrectly?

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**Author:** ![jbudz](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/jbudz/32/45922_2.png) [@jbudz](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jbudz)\
**Post date:** [February 21, 2019, 6:34pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/issue-with-timelion/168406/4 "2019-02-21T18:34:25Z")

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Hm. Does something like `.es(*).trim(start=0, end=0)` work? Can you share your current query?

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**Author:** ![Alvaro\_Garrido](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/919ad9/32.png) [@Alvaro\_Garrido](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Alvaro_Garrido)\
**Post date:** [February 21, 2019, 6:46pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/issue-with-timelion/168406/5 "2019-02-21T18:46:07Z")

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It works the way you say, but does not show any documents (even if I can see them in Discover and Visualize). Here some screenshots if that can help:

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/2/2/22c8e1ffddda141a33a47c04fe959abb42301e23.png)

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/a/a/aa2f282203f1da680a57cc2bfc6619643a8a93dc.png)

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/5/e/5e48ab40093a419311b9948a4d5e45a2994c400c.png)

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**Author:** ![Alvaro\_Garrido](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/919ad9/32.png) [@Alvaro\_Garrido](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Alvaro_Garrido)\
**Post date:** [February 21, 2019, 8:36pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/issue-with-timelion/168406/6 "2019-02-21T20:36:45Z")

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I finally managed to plot the graphs in Timelion, it was due to Timelion not catching the right timestamp, I had to specify it:

.es(\*,timefield=timestamp).trim(0,0)

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**Author:** ![Alvaro\_Garrido](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/919ad9/32.png) [@Alvaro\_Garrido](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Alvaro_Garrido)\
**Post date:** [February 21, 2019, 8:37pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/issue-with-timelion/168406/7 "2019-02-21T20:37:02Z")

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Thank you for your assestment!

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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:** [March 21, 2019, 8:37pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/issue-with-timelion/168406/8 "2019-03-21T20:37:02Z")

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