# Labels in vertical histogram is too long, that it hides the graph

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/labels-in-vertical-histogram-is-too-long-that-it-hides-the-graph/311269
**Category:** Kibana
**Created:** [August 3, 2022, 7:43am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/labels-in-vertical-histogram-is-too-long-that-it-hides-the-graph/311269 "2022-08-03T07:43:16Z")
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### Author: ![Abhishek\_Soni1](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/abhishek_soni1/32/108968_2.png) [@Abhishek\_Soni1](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Abhishek_Soni1)
#### Post date: [August 3, 2022, 7:43am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/labels-in-vertical-histogram-is-too-long-that-it-hides-the-graph/311269/1 "2022-08-03T07:43:16Z")

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As displayed in the graph, It hides the actual graphs. Is there any way to fix this?

We are using version 7.8.0

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/4/2/423768ce288be957052c6a209ffd046551c558cc.png)

Thanks in advance 🙂

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### Author: ![Abhishek\_Soni1](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/abhishek_soni1/32/108968_2.png) [@Abhishek\_Soni1](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Abhishek_Soni1)
#### Post date: [August 3, 2022, 9:20am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/labels-in-vertical-histogram-is-too-long-that-it-hides-the-graph/311269/2 "2022-08-03T09:20:43Z")

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The option was available under 'metrics & axes' -\> x-axis -\>truncate.

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### Author: ![Stratoula\_Kalafateli](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/stratoula_kalafateli/32/70923_2.png) [@Stratoula\_Kalafateli](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Stratoula_Kalafateli)
#### Post date: [August 3, 2022, 10:30am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/labels-in-vertical-histogram-is-too-long-that-it-hides-the-graph/311269/3 "2022-08-03T10:30:46Z")

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You can also use the Align horizontal

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/b/0/b03852e526145f60d5bbc0eb01f74d4a9cfc2ef2.jpeg)

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### Author: ![Abhishek\_Soni1](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/abhishek_soni1/32/108968_2.png) [@Abhishek\_Soni1](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Abhishek_Soni1)
#### Post date: [August 5, 2022, 9:44am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/labels-in-vertical-histogram-is-too-long-that-it-hides-the-graph/311269/4 "2022-08-05T09:44:13Z")

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Can I set it to default 20, globally ?

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### Author: ![Stratoula\_Kalafateli](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/stratoula_kalafateli/32/70923_2.png) [@Stratoula\_Kalafateli](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Stratoula_Kalafateli)
#### Post date: [August 8, 2022, 5:59am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/labels-in-vertical-histogram-is-too-long-that-it-hides-the-graph/311269/5 "2022-08-08T05:59:51Z")

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The truncate option? No unfortunately is a per chart setting.

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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: [September 5, 2022, 6:00am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/labels-in-vertical-histogram-is-too-long-that-it-hides-the-graph/311269/6 "2022-09-05T06:00:33Z")

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