# Providing user defined fields in kibana graph

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/providing-user-defined-fields-in-kibana-graph/63191
**Category:** Kibana
**Created:** [October 17, 2016, 12:57pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/providing-user-defined-fields-in-kibana-graph/63191 "2016-10-17T12:57:08Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author: ![vinoossk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/74df32/32.png) [@vinoossk](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/vinoossk)
#### Post date: [October 17, 2016, 12:57pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/providing-user-defined-fields-in-kibana-graph/63191/1 "2016-10-17T12:57:08Z")

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I want to keep user fields like..X axis OperationName fetched from parsing logs.. Y axis respective time taken from parsing logs.

I could see only @timestamp and geo fields in graph part. Please advise

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### 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: [October 17, 2016, 1:16pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/providing-user-defined-fields-in-kibana-graph/63191/2 "2016-10-17T13:16:06Z")

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hi @vinoossk,

What does your data look like? Are you using the sample Kibana logstash data?

What kind of graph do you want to do? Vertical bar chart/line chart?

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### Author: ![vinoossk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/74df32/32.png) [@vinoossk](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/vinoossk)
#### Post date: [October 18, 2016, 7:06am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/providing-user-defined-fields-in-kibana-graph/63191/3 "2016-10-18T07:06:42Z")

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Hi @thomasneirynck

In my kibana i will get fields like operationID and Timetaken

tOpId getProduct, getSPRL2, getSPRL2, TK\_GDP\_XTEML  
tTimeTaken 27, 2954, 426, 293

I want to keep OpID in X axis and time taken in Y axis

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### 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: [October 19, 2016, 1:26pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/providing-user-defined-fields-in-kibana-graph/63191/4 "2016-10-19T13:26:28Z")

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It seems like timeTaken is not a date field, but a number field.

In the Y-axis dropdown of the Visualization, select "Histogram" (not "Date Histogram"). This should give you the ability to select timeTaken from the drop-down.

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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, 1:36pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/providing-user-defined-fields-in-kibana-graph/63191/5 "2017-07-06T13:36:15Z")

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