# Lens Visualizations Breaking?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/lens-visualizations-breaking/379970>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Tags:** visualisation\
**Created:** [July 9, 2025, 10:39pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/lens-visualizations-breaking/379970 "2025-07-09T22:39:09Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![erikg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/91b2a8/32.png) [@erikg](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/erikg)\
**Post date:** [July 9, 2025, 10:39pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/lens-visualizations-breaking/379970/1 "2025-07-09T22:39:09Z")

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Hello,  
I am not sure how to reproduce this but I created some lens visualizations on a dashboard containing several different data views.

There is some legacy visualizations on the same dashboard but not sure how relevant.  
But the issue is that some lens visualizations breaks:

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/c/d/cd6ba3e07d61d2035d5e73067d0cda4cb25f3b3f.png)  
 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/0/3/036910e6ac103e519af5393421d75a59222b4814.png)

Data view isn't deleted or updated, it seems to do this on its own. Seeing that it mostly effect pie charts?

Not sure why this happens, perhaps I am doing something wrong?

Elasticsearch/Kibana: 8.18.0

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**Author:** ![Tortoise](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/tortoise/32/147587_2.png) [@Tortoise](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Tortoise)\
**Post date:** [July 12, 2025, 9:37am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/lens-visualizations-breaking/379970/2 "2025-07-12T09:37:37Z")

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Hello @erikg

Could you please share what is the issue? your elk version is 8.18.0  
You have PIE charts which are used in Dashboard which were working fine. Suddenly 1 day these Pie charts are broken on its own? Ideally it should not break on its own.

Thanks!!

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**Author:** ![erikg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/91b2a8/32.png) [@erikg](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/erikg)\
**Post date:** [July 14, 2025, 9:45pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/lens-visualizations-breaking/379970/3 "2025-07-14T21:45:42Z")

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Hey @Tortoise  
I believe its tied to this discussion:  
[Visualization issue in Kibana dashboard after upgrade to v8.17.1 - Elastic Stack / Kibana - Discuss the Elastic Stack](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/visualization-issue-in-kibana-dashboard-after-upgrade-to-v8-17-1/374012)

To add more context - I was building a dashboard using visualizations from different dashboards. Once I added majority of the visualizations (some were TVSB visualizations) and it began showing this:

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/e/7/e7520bef5d1d31d24a65cf27e14e6a890f0b4c1d.png)

We noticed it was mainly pie charts breaking