# Line Chart/Area chart Significant Term filter issue

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/line-chart-area-chart-significant-term-filter-issue/37979>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [December 26, 2015, 5:45am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/line-chart-area-chart-significant-term-filter-issue/37979 "2015-12-26T05:45:33Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Sumantha\_Kannantha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/df788c/32.png) [@Sumantha\_Kannantha](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Sumantha_Kannantha)\
**Post date:** [December 26, 2015, 5:45am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/line-chart-area-chart-significant-term-filter-issue/37979/1 "2015-12-26T05:45:33Z")

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I am using kibana-4.3.1and logstash-2.1.1-1 version

When I plot the Line chart graph I see all the data points were considered for plotting the graph.

 ![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/2X/e/edd923546968d815c53925b86db86154bf9cb19f.png)  
However, If I add SPlit Lines \> Significant Term filter, I see some of the data were not considered for plotting the graph.  
 ![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/2X/3/30ec88bf45912d06210ba41eae4c77b8d3adfcef.png)

To confirm data issue, I used Data Table with similar filtering ( Split Rows \> Significant Term filter), but there I am able to see all the data points.

Can you please help finding a solution for this issue?

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [December 27, 2015, 7:41am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/line-chart-area-chart-significant-term-filter-issue/37979/3 "2015-12-27T07:41:41Z")

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Probably because the significant terms algorithm didn't find anything.  
I don't know the exact details of how it works but I am not surprised, you aren't likely to find significant terms everywhere, that is the point of it.

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**Author:** ![stormpython](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/stormpython/32/7190_2.png) [@stormpython](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/stormpython)\
**Post date:** [December 29, 2015, 7:18pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/line-chart-area-chart-significant-term-filter-issue/37979/4 "2015-12-29T19:18:46Z")

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Doing a significant terms aggregation with a Data Table and one with a Line chart in the way you've done it are actually two different queries. In the line chart example, you first do a date histogram aggregation and then a significant terms aggregation while in the Data Table you are only doing a significant terms aggregation.

If I were to perform a similar query as your line chart (show below),

 ![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/2X/f/fcc1c2830a94e8a6f282f82d7a5bc0551832586b.png)

and do the same for the Data Table (shown below),

 ![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/2X/a/aabf4d2eda250a9dc93767861d6d12e9bcce1e96.png)

you can see that I get the same results. Its made more apparent by examining the data table in the spy panel.

 ![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/2X/5/5798ff934a33766622e70de90806d8d1d2c067bd.png)  
By clicking on the ^ symbol, you can open the spy panel and see the results in a table format. You can also examine the query sent to elasticsearch and the elasticsearch response in the other tabs.  
 ![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/2X/8/85177e380ccfb4f2a262fb46bb84c69766106138.png)

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [December 29, 2015, 8:34pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/line-chart-area-chart-significant-term-filter-issue/37979/5 "2015-12-29T20:34:59Z")

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Thanks Shelby, looks like I was totally off 😛

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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, 2:05pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/line-chart-area-chart-significant-term-filter-issue/37979/6 "2017-07-06T14:05:52Z")

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