# Kibana Timelion to Represent API Response Times

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-timelion-to-represent-api-response-times/122278>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Tags:** timelion\
**Created:** [March 2, 2018, 2:49pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-timelion-to-represent-api-response-times/122278 "2018-03-02T14:49:34Z")\
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**Author:** ![Marius\_Dragomir](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/marius_dragomir/32/42087_2.png) [@Marius\_Dragomir](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Marius_Dragomir)\
**Post date:** [March 3, 2018, 6:44am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-timelion-to-represent-api-response-times/122278/2 "2018-03-03T06:44:15Z")

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You can only see an aggregation of the data, this is how ES works. My coworker CJ went into depth explaining it here: [Timelion Time-Series data based on field value](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/timelion-time-series-data-based-on-field-value/93982/2?u=marius_dragomir) and he also linked to reading materials that can help you make you decision on what aggregation to use.

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