# Kibana Heatmap: Use discrete values or labels in legend **URL:** \ **Category:** Kibana\ **Created:** [November 6, 2020, 3:29pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-heatmap-use-discrete-values-or-labels-in-legend/254548 "2020-11-06T15:29:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![FloJe](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/floje/32/48231_2.png) [@FloJe](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/FloJe)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2020, 3:29pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-heatmap-use-discrete-values-or-labels-in-legend/254548/1 "2020-11-06T15:29:50Z")
Dear Forum, I have a question regarding Kibana Heatmap visualisation. I'm collecting logs from an application and these logs have an Apachee syslog level, i.e. error, warning, info. Now I want to visualize 10 minute bins of aggregated log levels on the x axis. The color of the bin should depend on the severity of the log messages. I want to color the bin red in case of \>= 1 error message, yellow in case of zero errors but \>=1 warnings, and green in case only info level messages were received. Therefore I map the log level to the corresponding syslog value, so for simplicity let's assume error =\> 0, warning =\> 1, info =\> 2. I color the bin by using the minimum log value observed in the time interval. I have the following issue: I have to define ranges (e.g. error would be [0,1)) but have only discrete values. This becomes a problem as the legend labels are then 0-1, 1-2, ... but I want to have 1, 2, 3. In an ideal case it would be nice to map the ranges back to the corresponding level labels, i.e. error in case of range 0-1, warning in case of 1-2, and info for range 2-3. Best and have a nice weekend, Florian ---
**Author:** ![flash1293](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/flash1293/32/41227_2.png) [@flash1293](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/flash1293)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2020, 11:20am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-heatmap-use-discrete-values-or-labels-in-legend/254548/2 "2020-11-09T11:20:56Z")
Ranges don't support custom labels, but you should be able to replicate the same thing by using the "Filters" aggregation instead. There you have to define your range using a KQL or Lucene filter and you can set a custom label for it. ---
**Author:** ![FloJe](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/floje/32/48231_2.png) [@FloJe](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/FloJe)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2020, 11:02am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-heatmap-use-discrete-values-or-labels-in-legend/254548/3 "2020-11-10T11:02:23Z")
Thanks for the hint Joe, but I do not yet see how I could do that. Currently I use the date histogram aggregation on @timestamp to split the x-axis into time bins and I use the Min aggregation on level\_value as metric. Adding a filter aggregation on top of that would require me to split the Heatmap into different rows. But I need a single row with a time binning on the x axis and color coded error levels. ---
**Author:** ![flash1293](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/flash1293/32/41227_2.png) [@flash1293](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/flash1293)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2020, 1:47pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-heatmap-use-discrete-values-or-labels-in-legend/254548/4 "2020-11-11T13:47:35Z")
Hey, I think I got your question wrong in that case. You can't control how the coloring legend is showing the ranges it applies colors to. You can open a feature request here: [https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/new?template=Feature\_request.md](https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/new?template=Feature_request.md) If you want full flexibility you can use the Vega integration: [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/current/vega-graph.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/current/vega-graph.html) Using it should allow you to configure the heatmap like you want to, but it's pretty much building everything from scratch. ---
**Author:** ![FloJe](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/floje/32/48231_2.png) [@FloJe](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/FloJe)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2020, 7:52am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-heatmap-use-discrete-values-or-labels-in-legend/254548/5 "2020-11-13T07:52:27Z")
Thanks for the clarification Joe! I will consider these options. Have a nice weekend. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2020, 7:52am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-heatmap-use-discrete-values-or-labels-in-legend/254548/6 "2020-12-11T07:52:29Z")
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