# Timelion, dated indices and the time picker
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/timelion-dated-indices-and-the-time-picker/65583
**Category:** Kibana
**Tags:** timelion
**Created:** [November 10, 2016, 6:06am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/timelion-dated-indices-and-the-time-picker/65583 "2016-11-10T06:06:28Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@tomr](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/tomr)
#### Post date: [November 10, 2016, 6:06am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/timelion-dated-indices-and-the-time-picker/65583/1 "2016-11-10T06:06:28Z")
We have a lot of large indices indices, separated daily as eg ourindex-YYYY.MM.DD
Timelion appears to be a bit insensitive to the dates. I want to create a dashboard (for people who don't want to edit timelion config) to show a few time series, which can be usefully viewed with the time-picker set to "Last 15m".
At the moment I appear to have two inadequate options:
1. use `.es(index=ourindex-*)`
2. manually insert the appropriate `YYYY.MM.DD` value each day
The second option is out because it's too much hassle for the users, and the first one goes off and queries a thousand or so large indices, taking quite a while to return.
Is there any way to get Timelion to only hit the time-picker appropriate dated indices?
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### Author:  [@alainc](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/alainc)
#### Post date: [November 10, 2016, 10:55am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/timelion-dated-indices-and-the-time-picker/65583/2 "2016-11-10T10:55:36Z")
Hi
i posted something like this long time ago and it seems it had been integrated [Timelion timeseries in kibana visualise](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/timelion-timeseries-in-kibana-visualise/45971/2?u=alainc)
so it should be ok now.
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### Author:  [@spalger](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/spalger)
#### Post date: [November 11, 2016, 10:04pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/timelion-dated-indices-and-the-time-picker/65583/3 "2016-11-11T22:04:23Z")
As suggested by @alainc, does changing your timelion functoin to `.es(index=outindex-*, kibana=true)` solve the problem?
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [December 9, 2016, 10:04pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/timelion-dated-indices-and-the-time-picker/65583/4 "2016-12-09T22:04:23Z")
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