# Service status visualization in kibana

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/service-status-visualization-in-kibana/147707>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [September 7, 2018, 12:05pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/service-status-visualization-in-kibana/147707 "2018-09-07T12:05:20Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![vaishno.avi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/f0a364/32.png) [@vaishno.avi](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/vaishno.avi)\
**Post date:** [September 7, 2018, 12:05pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/service-status-visualization-in-kibana/147707/1 "2018-09-07T12:05:20Z")

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Hello,

I am looking for a way to have the service status visualize into a green/red status based on its availability. This would be similar to ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/e/0/e06d7fb0cf1db974ce23167e6331b0ce9a14c1bf.png) which is under monitoring tab of the elk nodes

Regards  
Ashish

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**Author:** ![cjcenizal](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/cjcenizal/32/11216_2.png) [@cjcenizal](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/cjcenizal)\
**Post date:** [September 7, 2018, 12:22pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/service-status-visualization-in-kibana/147707/2 "2018-09-07T12:22:30Z")

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Hi there, could you clarify what you mean by "the service status"?

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**Author:** ![vaishno.avi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/f0a364/32.png) [@vaishno.avi](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/vaishno.avi)\
**Post date:** [September 7, 2018, 12:34pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/service-status-visualization-in-kibana/147707/3 "2018-09-07T12:34:56Z")

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Hello [cjcenizal](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/service-status-visualization-in-kibana/147707/2),

I have the application running as a service on the remote machine. I want to have a visualization in kibana which is able to show the service is running or not. Green if its running and Red if its not running.

Regards  
Ashish

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**Author:** ![cjcenizal](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/cjcenizal/32/11216_2.png) [@cjcenizal](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/cjcenizal)\
**Post date:** [September 7, 2018, 4:29pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/service-status-visualization-in-kibana/147707/4 "2018-09-07T16:29:03Z")

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We added the [top hit metric](https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/7302) in 5.3. You can use this to create a metric vis to reflect the status of the latest document from your service status like this:

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/b/1/b156a7e56fac6e4d25454720bec5ceaca460e1e2.png)

If you want control over how to style it, you might want to look into our upcoming [Canvas app](https://canvas.elastic.co/).

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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:** [October 5, 2018, 4:29pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/service-status-visualization-in-kibana/147707/5 "2018-10-05T16:29:06Z")

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