# Timelion always brings back blank

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/timelion-always-brings-back-blank/87616>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Tags:** timelion\
**Created:** [May 30, 2017, 6:55pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/timelion-always-brings-back-blank/87616 "2017-05-30T18:55:20Z")\
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**Author:** ![glifhits](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/dec6dc/32.png) [@glifhits](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/glifhits)\
**Post date:** [May 30, 2017, 6:55pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/timelion-always-brings-back-blank/87616/1 "2017-05-30T18:55:20Z")

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Hi all,  
I am very new to elastic. I am trying to use Timelion to graph some data but timelion is always bringing back a blank no matter what see screenshot below:

 ![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/b/9/b9fa21fc98bb680f4bc574e2bdc493193913ae00.png)  
However I know for a fact I have data in my database:  
 ![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/2/f/2fe797116f752497f2ad54a3f4a8b6840fc04f03.png)

Has anyone had this issue?

Thanks in advance!

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**Author:** ![Joe\_Fleming](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/joe_fleming/32/3561_2.png) [@Joe\_Fleming](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Joe_Fleming)\
**Post date:** [May 30, 2017, 10:40pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/timelion-always-brings-back-blank/87616/2 "2017-05-30T22:40:10Z")

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Hrm, that's strange, you should be seeing the same count in Timelion, since you've selected the same time range and are searching all indices.

Do you have a lot of other indices in your cluster? Maybe Elasticsearch is truncating the results... perhaps try using `.es(index="pattern-*")`, where _pattern-\*_ is whatever index pattern you're using in Kibana.

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**Author:** ![glifhits](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/dec6dc/32.png) [@glifhits](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/glifhits)\
**Post date:** [May 31, 2017, 10:54am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/timelion-always-brings-back-blank/87616/3 "2017-05-31T10:54:14Z")

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I actually ended up finding the problem. In the Advanced config Timelion has it's own field that it looks for "@timestamp" my data wasn't filling that field. As soon as I populated the field it all worked!

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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:** [June 28, 2017, 10:54am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/timelion-always-brings-back-blank/87616/4 "2017-06-28T10:54:43Z")

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