# Kibana and histograms not based on dates?

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-and-histograms-not-based-on-dates/18905
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [July 25, 2014, 4:00pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-and-histograms-not-based-on-dates/18905 "2014-07-25T16:00:06Z")
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### Author: ![Chris\_Neal](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/chris_neal/32/3527_2.png) [@Chris\_Neal](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Chris_Neal)
#### Post date: [July 25, 2014, 4:00pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-and-histograms-not-based-on-dates/18905/1 "2014-07-25T16:00:06Z")

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Hi all,

I was trying to build a histogram that shows each day's change based on a  
numeric X axis rather than a date.  
From what I can see, the histogram in Kibana is based only on date, so X  
axis can only be date or time.

There are two facets of histogram in ES  
[http://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/search-facets-histogram-facet.html](http://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/search-facets-histogram-facet.html)  
[http://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/search-facets-date-histogram-facet.html](http://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/search-facets-date-histogram-facet.html)

Is there a way to have Kibana create a histogram panel without a date?

Thanks!  
Chris

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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: [July 6, 2017, 1:13am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-and-histograms-not-based-on-dates/18905/2 "2017-07-06T01:13:05Z")

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