# Kibana metric visualization, count not working

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-metric-visualization-count-not-working/77010>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [March 1, 2017, 3:25pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-metric-visualization-count-not-working/77010 "2017-03-01T15:25:50Z")\
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**Author:** ![cvarner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a183cd/32.png) [@cvarner](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/cvarner)\
**Post date:** [March 1, 2017, 3:25pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-metric-visualization-count-not-working/77010/1 "2017-03-01T15:25:50Z")

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My indexes are broken up by log and day - for example:

logstash-service-log-2017.03.01  
logstash-audit-log.2017.03.01

What I would like to do is use the metric visualization to show a count of all the entries in the "service-log" index (this would equate to "transactions per day"). When I use the metric visualization and the above service-log index, the value I get makes no sense -- mostly because it _decreases_!

Am I missing something fundamental?

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**Author:** ![cvarner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a183cd/32.png) [@cvarner](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/cvarner)\
**Post date:** [March 1, 2017, 3:30pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-metric-visualization-count-not-working/77010/2 "2017-03-01T15:30:22Z")

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I'm stupid... time interval! I would delete this post, but I can't find a button for that (did I mention I'm stupid?).

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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 29, 2017, 3:30pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-metric-visualization-count-not-working/77010/3 "2017-03-29T15:30:31Z")

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