# Kibana time series range issue

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-time-series-range-issue/62956>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [October 13, 2016, 2:12pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-time-series-range-issue/62956 "2016-10-13T14:12:53Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![nandakumar8](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/76d3ee/32.png) [@nandakumar8](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/nandakumar8)\
**Post date:** [October 13, 2016, 2:12pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-time-series-range-issue/62956/1 "2016-10-13T14:12:53Z")

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Hi All,

I am very new to the kibana commuity. I have an issue representing data in time series. It would be really helpful if someone can guide me through it.

I have an use case where I need to show top 5 categories across a date range say oct 12 to oct 22 aggregated by count of tweets. But the date range option shows only one dot for the each category in the range. I want the top 5 categories with their values spread across like a line or time series.

I tried the date histogram option , but it shows the top 5 categories in each date of the range, which is not what i want. I have attached a screenshot of my viz for reference.

 ![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/2X/e/e4396bfcd0a74b557366a8000ab4c9e35e9d3872.png)

Regards,  
Nanda

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**Author:** ![thomasneirynck](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/thomasneirynck/32/23313_2.png) [@thomasneirynck](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/thomasneirynck)\
**Post date:** [October 13, 2016, 4:21pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-time-series-range-issue/62956/2 "2016-10-13T16:21:16Z")

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reposted from here: [https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/8658#issuecomment-253552790](https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/8658#issuecomment-253552790)

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As for your question:

- make sure that your index in ES has date-fields.
- in Kibana, you can select the "Date Histogram" option for those Date-fields. That allows you to see your data over time.
- then you can select a new sub-bucket where you "split lines"

your configuration would look something like this:

 ![image](https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/1833023/19355893/f2ecb9fe-9139-11e6-92c6-089bff0d5f28.png)

You might also want to go to a short getting-started tutorial that shows how to map date-fields and create charts with Kibana: [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/current/getting-started.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/current/getting-started.html)

I'm closing this ticket now. But if you have follow up questions or comments, feel free to submit them in the forum.

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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, 1:36pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-time-series-range-issue/62956/3 "2017-07-06T13:36:47Z")

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