# Saved Visualization Service: Visualization type of "metrics" is invalid. Please change to a valid type

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/saved-visualization-service-visualization-type-of-metrics-is-invalid-please-change-to-a-valid-type/135656>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [June 13, 2018, 8:56am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/saved-visualization-service-visualization-type-of-metrics-is-invalid-please-change-to-a-valid-type/135656 "2018-06-13T08:56:20Z")\
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**Author:** ![christophilus](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/christophilus/32/42991_2.png) [@christophilus](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/christophilus)\
**Post date:** [June 13, 2018, 1:39pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/saved-visualization-service-visualization-type-of-metrics-is-invalid-please-change-to-a-valid-type/135656/2 "2018-06-13T13:39:15Z")

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Hi Stephan. That DO tutorial is using a pretty old version of our stack. It looks like it's out of date. It sounds like you're trying to create visualizations that exist in a more recent version of Kibana.

You might want to try following our official getting started documents, which can be found here:

[https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/current/getting-started.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/current/getting-started.html)

Good luck!

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