# Smooth line visualization goes back to "straight" when adding to a Dashboard

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/smooth-line-visualization-goes-back-to-straight-when-adding-to-a-dashboard/154924>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [October 31, 2018, 8:28pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/smooth-line-visualization-goes-back-to-straight-when-adding-to-a-dashboard/154924 "2018-10-31T20:28:14Z")\
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**Author:** ![jayh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/6a8cbe/32.png) [@jayh](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jayh)\
**Post date:** [October 31, 2018, 8:28pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/smooth-line-visualization-goes-back-to-straight-when-adding-to-a-dashboard/154924/1 "2018-10-31T20:28:14Z")

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I created a line graph visualization and under Metrics & Axes \> Metric, set the Line Mode to "smooth".

A smooth line curve is created and saved.  
But when I add this visualization to a dashboard, it's added as a Straight line.

When I try to edit the visualization again, I can see that it's smooth, but in the dashboard, it stays as straight.

This is on Kibana 5.4.2

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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 31, 2018, 9:34pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/smooth-line-visualization-goes-back-to-straight-when-adding-to-a-dashboard/154924/2 "2018-10-31T21:34:19Z")

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hi @jayh,

This was a known issue, [https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/11651](https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/11651).

It got fixed with [https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/11958](https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/11958), but only backported to the last maintained minor, which was 5.5.

You would need to upgrade Kibana to see the fix.

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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 28, 2018, 9:34pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/smooth-line-visualization-goes-back-to-straight-when-adding-to-a-dashboard/154924/3 "2018-11-28T21:34:22Z")

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