# Not able to connect the points in kibana

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/not-able-to-connect-the-points-in-kibana/135121
**Category:** Kibana
**Created:** [June 8, 2018, 9:07am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/not-able-to-connect-the-points-in-kibana/135121 "2018-06-08T09:07:52Z")
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### Author: ![jen-huang](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/jen-huang/32/74327_2.png) [@jen-huang](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jen-huang)
#### Post date: [June 8, 2018, 4:53pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/not-able-to-connect-the-points-in-kibana/135121/2 "2018-06-08T16:53:52Z")

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What does your timeline query look like? Depending on the query, the following may help:

Use `.lines(show=true)`:

> [@Is it possible to put dots on lines in Timelion?](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-it-possible-to-put-dots-on-lines-in-timelion/83675/2):
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> Hi @elasticcloud, showing both lines and dots should be possible by setting the show=true as in .points(show=true).lines(show=true)

Use `.fit(average)`:

> **[Normalizing sparse time series with Timelion](https://www.elastic.co/blog/sparse-timeseries-and-timelion)**

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