Kibana cannot visualize my variables.

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So im completely new to Kibana, and having challanges creating visualzations.
I have my data imported sucessfully into Elasticsearch. I have 2 values(date(ISO8601 date and value(number type)).
So I want to visualize a time series line graph - date(X axis) vs value(Y axis).
However when I try to visualize the data, I insert "date" into the horizontal field, and "value" in the vertical field. But when I do this date is good, However "value" changes to "unique count of value".

How can I avoid this, I dont want to see the median, or average or unique count in this case....I want to see my values plotted against the date.
So I cant figure out why its changing to "unique count of value"

Please kindly assist.....Appreciate any advice in advance.

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Hi @Clinton_Pillay Welcome to the community.

The short story (with a much longer back story) is almost ALL ways to visualize data in Kibana are based on aggregations, and you are describing X/Y value / point / non-aggregation visualization... i.e. Kibana is not built to do simple X/Y plots ... that might see odd but in general users use Kibana n large data sets that could not be simply plotted X/Y they need to be aggregated in some form

I am surprised that you see the date exactly how you want because dates on the X-Axis are almost always bucketed.

There can sometimes be tricks to apply. If there is truly on 1 value per time bucket, you can use MAX, etc., but I suspect that is not the case...

What version are you on?

What visualization are you trying?

And can you provide a few sample of thae data?

What is the granularity of the time values (mins, usecs, hours etc..etc)

And how many points do you plan to plot

ALL this said you can use a Vega but that requires custom coding.

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