# Timelion - change X axis to reflect ingest times

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/timelion-change-x-axis-to-reflect-ingest-times/242996>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Tags:** timelion\
**Created:** [July 29, 2020, 5:12am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/timelion-change-x-axis-to-reflect-ingest-times/242996 "2020-07-29T05:12:50Z")\
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**Author:** ![Scott\_B](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/67e7ee/32.png) [@Scott\_B](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Scott_B)\
**Post date:** [July 29, 2020, 5:12am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/timelion-change-x-axis-to-reflect-ingest-times/242996/1 "2020-07-29T05:12:51Z")

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I would like to change the X axis in Timelion to show a spike for each ingest time of data, not for set time intervals. The ingest times might be 5 minutes apart or days apart. When using set time intervals the ingests that are 5 minutes apart are displayed as one dataset. I need them to be displayed as 2 separate datasets.

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [July 29, 2020, 5:14am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/timelion-change-x-axis-to-reflect-ingest-times/242996/2 "2020-07-29T05:14:14Z")

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How long of a timespan are you looking at here? Days?

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**Author:** ![Scott\_B](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/67e7ee/32.png) [@Scott\_B](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Scott_B)\
**Post date:** [July 29, 2020, 5:17am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/timelion-change-x-axis-to-reflect-ingest-times/242996/3 "2020-07-29T05:17:16Z")

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Can be a couple days, but can also be up to a few months.

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [July 29, 2020, 9:32pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/timelion-change-x-axis-to-reflect-ingest-times/242996/4 "2020-07-29T21:32:37Z")

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OK, well it'll adjust the buckets based on the larger timeframe. You can make them explicit, but smaller buckets over long timeframes can be expensive.

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**Author:** ![Scott\_B](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/67e7ee/32.png) [@Scott\_B](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Scott_B)\
**Post date:** [July 29, 2020, 9:40pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/timelion-change-x-axis-to-reflect-ingest-times/242996/5 "2020-07-29T21:40:20Z")

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How do I make the buckets explicit?

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [July 29, 2020, 9:43pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/timelion-change-x-axis-to-reflect-ingest-times/242996/6 "2020-07-29T21:43:40Z")

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I don't know the syntax in Timelion sorry. Try TSVB as that's pretty straight forward.

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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:** [August 26, 2020, 9:43pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/timelion-change-x-axis-to-reflect-ingest-times/242996/7 "2020-08-26T21:43:49Z")

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