# Missing bar in vertical bar visualisation

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/missing-bar-in-vertical-bar-visualisation/75763
**Category:** Kibana
**Created:** [February 20, 2017, 3:22pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/missing-bar-in-vertical-bar-visualisation/75763 "2017-02-20T15:22:07Z")
**Posts on this page:** 9
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### Author: ![Cylindric](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/cylindric/32/5660_2.png) [@Cylindric](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Cylindric)
#### Post date: [February 20, 2017, 3:22pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/missing-bar-in-vertical-bar-visualisation/75763/1 "2017-02-20T15:22:07Z")

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Hi folks. I am trying to create a visualisation based on MetricBeat data, showing memory utilisation by server.  
The weird thing is that for one of my servers (ca-web06), the bar is blank:

 ![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/2X/d/d2a04f027b7024d68b6219d23c6cb6fde7dbbf0f.png)

Even though the data for this server clearly returns a value:

![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/2X/b/b670ed56ce30fb6567e2f2758ae52de2b26ecc63.png)

The actual response from ES looks a bit like this:

```
 {
  "took": 2,
  "timed_out": false,
  "_shards": {
    "total": 1,
    "successful": 1,
    "failed": 0
  },
  "hits": {
    "total": 132,
    "max_score": 0,
    "hits": []
  },
  "aggregations": {
    "2": {
      "doc_count_error_upper_bound": 0,
      "sum_other_doc_count": 0,
      "buckets": [
        {
          "1": {
            "value": 0.9095000000000001
          },
          "key": "ca-web01",
          "doc_count": 12
        },
        {
          "1": {
            "value": 0.7822666666666666
          },
          "key": "ca-web02",
          "doc_count": 15
        },
        {
          "1": {
            "value": 0.7965333333333333
          },
          "key": "ca-web03",
          "doc_count": 15
        },
        {
          "1": {
            "value": 0.7449999999999999
          },
          "key": "ca-web04",
          "doc_count": 15
        },
        {
          "1": {
            "value": 0.7727333333333333
          },
          "key": "ca-web05",
          "doc_count": 15
        },
        {
          "1": {
            "value": 0.5485333333333334
          },
          "key": "ca-web06",
          "doc_count": 15
        },
        {
          "1": {
            "value": 0.7930666666666666
          },
          "key": "ca-web07",
          "doc_count": 15
        },
        {
          "1": {
            "value": 0.7433333333333333
          },
          "key": "ca-web09",
          "doc_count": 15
        },
        {
          "1": {
            "value": 0.6876666666666668
          },
          "key": "ca-web10",
          "doc_count": 15
        }
      ]
    }
  },
  "status": 200
}
```

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### Author: ![weltenwort](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/weltenwort/32/53885_2.png) [@weltenwort](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/weltenwort)
#### Post date: [February 20, 2017, 3:37pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/missing-bar-in-vertical-bar-visualisation/75763/2 "2017-02-20T15:37:16Z")

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Hi @Cylindric,

could you please let us know which version of Kibana you are using?

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### Author: ![Cylindric](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/cylindric/32/5660_2.png) [@Cylindric](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Cylindric)
#### Post date: [February 20, 2017, 4:19pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/missing-bar-in-vertical-bar-visualisation/75763/3 "2017-02-20T16:19:25Z")

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Sorry, yes: 5.2.0, it's an ES Cloud instance.

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### Author: ![weltenwort](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/weltenwort/32/53885_2.png) [@weltenwort](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/weltenwort)
#### Post date: [February 20, 2017, 5:13pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/missing-bar-in-vertical-bar-visualisation/75763/4 "2017-02-20T17:13:43Z")

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From the way the y-axis looks I would guess that "Scale Y-Axis to Data Bounds" is checked in the visualization options. This means that the last bar has a minimal height, because it defines the lower bound of the y-axis scale.

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### Author: ![Cylindric](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/cylindric/32/5660_2.png) [@Cylindric](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Cylindric)
#### Post date: [February 20, 2017, 5:16pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/missing-bar-in-vertical-bar-visualisation/75763/5 "2017-02-20T17:16:54Z")

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Ah yes, that does look like the culprit, although I do not have that ticked. I have it set to scale from 0 to 1.

It's almost as if the "Set Y-Axis Extents" option is actually wired into the "Scale to Data-Bounds" option.

 ![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/2X/c/cb9f269cd98977464650e87c7260dd7af3d51c32.png)

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### Author: ![weltenwort](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/weltenwort/32/53885_2.png) [@weltenwort](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/weltenwort)
#### Post date: [February 20, 2017, 5:22pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/missing-bar-in-vertical-bar-visualisation/75763/6 "2017-02-20T17:22:28Z")

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I can reproduce that and it feels like a bug to me. Setting something like `0.0000000001` as the lower bound seems to work as excpected for me.

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### Author: ![Cylindric](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/cylindric/32/5660_2.png) [@Cylindric](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Cylindric)
#### Post date: [February 20, 2017, 5:22pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/missing-bar-in-vertical-bar-visualisation/75763/7 "2017-02-20T17:22:59Z")

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Oh, interesting. I should probably see if there's a bug report for that already.

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### Author: ![weltenwort](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/weltenwort/32/53885_2.png) [@weltenwort](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/weltenwort)
#### Post date: [February 20, 2017, 5:38pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/missing-bar-in-vertical-bar-visualisation/75763/8 "2017-02-20T17:38:24Z")

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Thank you for filing the bug report, @Cylindric!

It can be found at [https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/10468](https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/10468) for everyone who finds this thread later.

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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: [March 20, 2017, 5:38pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/missing-bar-in-vertical-bar-visualisation/75763/9 "2017-03-20T17:38:35Z")

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