# Timelion Bar stacking with stack=off parameter -- bug?
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/timelion-bar-stacking-with-stack-off-parameter-bug/126138
**Category:** Kibana
**Tags:** timelion
**Created:** [March 29, 2018, 6:11pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/timelion-bar-stacking-with-stack-off-parameter-bug/126138 "2018-03-29T18:11:30Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@gigabyte](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/gigabyte)
#### Post date: [March 29, 2018, 6:11pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/timelion-bar-stacking-with-stack-off-parameter-bug/126138/1 "2018-03-29T18:11:30Z")
Reading another post thought there was someone with the same problem but it seems I'm "unique" in my situation. Having an issue where despite having the parameter of stack=off as part of bars(), Kibana is indeed stacking a bar graph. The "green" is the much lesser value yet it's on top of the blue leading to believe green has a larger value despite, again, it's being told to disable stacking. Any insight/thoughts?
Find below the ES code for it.
`.es(index=logstash*, timefield='@timestamp', metric='count:F5Response_Sec',q=F5URI:*Number1*).bars(stack=off).color('blue').label('Number1'),.es(index=logstash*, timefield='@timestamp', metric='count:F5Response_Sec',q=F5URI:*Number2*).bars(stack=off).color('green').label('Number2'),.es(index=logstash*, timefield='@timestamp', metric='count:F5Response_Sec',q=F5URI:*Number3*).bars(stack=off).color('red').label('Number3'),.es(index=logstash*, timefield='@timestamp', metric='count:F5Response_Sec',q=F5URI:*Number4*).bars(stack=off).color('orange').label('Number4')`
---
### Author:  [@gigabyte](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/gigabyte)
#### Post date: [March 30, 2018, 5:26am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/timelion-bar-stacking-with-stack-off-parameter-bug/126138/2 "2018-03-30T05:26:46Z")
Found a fixed bug in 5.x but it appears to have re-appeared. If no one see's anything wrong in the above,
will open a bug/issue.
v5 bug resolved [https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/12677](https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/12677)
Semi-related/opposite issue [Non stacked bars in Timelion (Kibana 5 - rc1)](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/non-stacked-bars-in-timelion-kibana-5-rc1/63862)
---
### Author:  [@rashmi](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/rashmi)
#### Post date: [April 4, 2018, 6:34pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/timelion-bar-stacking-with-stack-off-parameter-bug/126138/4 "2018-04-04T18:34:58Z")
I would suggest you to open a bug. We can always triage it accordingly. More screenshots, logs, versions, steps included.
Thanks
Rashmi
---
### Author:  [@gigabyte](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/gigabyte)
#### Post date: [April 12, 2018, 12:36pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/timelion-bar-stacking-with-stack-off-parameter-bug/126138/5 "2018-04-12T12:36:43Z")
For future searches/reference to similar problems, nreese on github caught the error. Knowing stack was a boolen value (yes/no, off/on, true/false), it's a literal true/false and nothing else is accepted. So should be stack=false to stop kibana from stacking. This issue is resolved.
>
---
### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [May 10, 2018, 12:37pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/timelion-bar-stacking-with-stack-off-parameter-bug/126138/6 "2018-05-10T12:37:04Z")
This topic was automatically closed 28 days after the last reply. New replies are no longer allowed.