# Setting a marker at a specific timestamp?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/setting-a-marker-at-a-specific-timestamp/103883>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [October 13, 2017, 11:16am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/setting-a-marker-at-a-specific-timestamp/103883 "2017-10-13T11:16:24Z")\
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**Author:** ![asp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9fc348/32.png) [@asp](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/asp)\
**Post date:** [October 13, 2017, 11:16am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/setting-a-marker-at-a-specific-timestamp/103883/1 "2017-10-13T11:16:25Z")

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Hi,

is it possible to set a marker at a specific timestamp?

My usecase is the following.

I have the data in ES to view the performance of my system.  
Then I have an event (e.g. database backup) which runs from time x to y. This information is NOT in ES.

Now I would like to visualize my performance and want to place a horizontal marker at start and end of the backup.

Is there any way to realize it without putting the backup timestamps to ES?  
kibana or timelion doesn't matter.

I am currently at kibana 5.1.2, but I plan to upgrade in the next month to the most current version.

Thanks, Andreas

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**Author:** ![Bargs](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/bargs/32/5429_2.png) [@Bargs](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Bargs)\
**Post date:** [October 13, 2017, 4:50pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/setting-a-marker-at-a-specific-timestamp/103883/2 "2017-10-13T16:50:30Z")

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I don't know of a good way to do this in 5.1. If you _did_ add your backup timestamps to ES though, the [annotations feature](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/5.6/_interface_overview.html#_annotations_tab) of the new Time Series Visual Builder sounds exactly like what you're looking for.

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**Author:** ![asp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9fc348/32.png) [@asp](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/asp)\
**Post date:** [October 16, 2017, 6:47am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/setting-a-marker-at-a-specific-timestamp/103883/3 "2017-10-16T06:47:03Z")

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In the meanwhile I added them manually to ES. Now I visualized the backup events as bars and showed the processing time as line.

I thought inserting them manually is more difficult, but it wasn't 🙂

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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:** [November 13, 2017, 6:47am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/setting-a-marker-at-a-specific-timestamp/103883/4 "2017-11-13T06:47:17Z")

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