# Legend Y-Axis too large **URL:** \ **Category:** Kibana\ **Created:** [February 13, 2017, 4:33pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/legend-y-axis-too-large/74904 "2017-02-13T16:33:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Beuhlet\_Reseau](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e95f7d/32.png) [@Beuhlet\_Reseau](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Beuhlet_Reseau)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2017, 4:33pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/legend-y-axis-too-large/74904/1 "2017-02-13T16:33:18Z")
Hello, I have a problem with the order of magnitude of the data I have 3 applications who genere data trafic. One of them genere very much trafic. So in visualize i split graph in 3 parts but, the legend does not adapt to other applications. Watch the screenshot below please : ![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/2X/7/7956c7b33306d6f09582c5d7909fbebfb9fc8e21.JPG) How to adapt this? thanks a lot for your help ---
**Author:** ![tsullivan](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/tsullivan/32/31077_2.png) [@tsullivan](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/tsullivan)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2017, 11:04pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/legend-y-axis-too-large/74904/2 "2017-02-13T23:04:16Z")
Are you trying to get all the data series into 1 chart instead of split into 3 charts? You can do this by splitting the area instead of splitting the chart when you select "Add Sub-Buckets" If you plot the data as a line chart instead of an area chart, you can set the Y-Axis scale to use `log` instead of `linear` which would certainly help make the data easier to understand. I'm actually surprised to find that Y-Axis Scale isn't available for area chart. ---
**Author:** ![Beuhlet\_Reseau](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e95f7d/32.png) [@Beuhlet\_Reseau](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Beuhlet_Reseau)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2017, 9:15am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/legend-y-axis-too-large/74904/3 "2017-02-14T09:15:08Z")
Hello Tim, I'm not sur to understand what you mean. When i choose Area chart (or other) i configure basic axis : ![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/2X/1/192f1340dda336c06190ecc0b2bffce8cb5fd85b.JPG) I have two choices ahter that, Split area or Chart. I choose area but the result is the same ? : ![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/2X/9/9357e17f6fd50add7e4ba397c8ee6919e5617fc5.JPG) ---
**Author:** ![Beuhlet\_Reseau](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e95f7d/32.png) [@Beuhlet\_Reseau](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Beuhlet_Reseau)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2017, 10:06am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/legend-y-axis-too-large/74904/4 "2017-02-14T10:06:02Z")
I prefer the rendering of area chart : ![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/2X/b/b366c538e036583d110a08c5ac9044a7d0ca74e6.JPG) thans Line chart ( Even if it is closer to what I want) ![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/2X/1/101d1b55af922bb815dc47cad9facff6269cd6a2.JPG) Why i'm not adapt legend in the first graph ? The second graph it's ok (thank you) but it's less understandable ---
**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:** [February 14, 2017, 9:22pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/legend-y-axis-too-large/74904/5 "2017-02-14T21:22:32Z")
hi @Beuhlet_Reseau For line and bar charts, you can find the scale-selector in the "Options"-tab. It is right next to the Data-tab. It has 3 options: linear, log, square root. Like @tsullivan suggested, "log" will work better for your data, because the log-scaling downplays large differences in magnitude. ![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/2X/a/adc6c13bd44b309ce87895af16dd653cdc3edb1f.png) ---
**Author:** ![Beuhlet\_Reseau](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e95f7d/32.png) [@Beuhlet\_Reseau](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Beuhlet_Reseau)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2017, 10:06am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/legend-y-axis-too-large/74904/6 "2017-02-15T10:06:17Z")
Ok thank you for your help ! ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2017, 10:06am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/legend-y-axis-too-large/74904/7 "2017-03-15T10:06:16Z")
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