# Timelion split() auto creates yaxis()
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/timelion-split-auto-creates-yaxis/193499
**Category:** Kibana
**Tags:** timelion
**Created:** [August 2, 2019, 9:53am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/timelion-split-auto-creates-yaxis/193499 "2019-08-02T09:53:51Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@GitsBdr](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/GitsBdr)
#### Post date: [August 2, 2019, 9:53am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/timelion-split-auto-creates-yaxis/193499/1 "2019-08-02T09:53:51Z")
Hi,
Thanks in advance for the time you would take to read this post
I was wondering if there is a way to create yaxis() automatically
For example, split(value:5) would make more sense on 5 different yaxis
I'm currently applying a filter on 'value=xxx' and copying it 5 times with different yaxis()... not cool at all. (Another example where creating functions with timelion would be lovely by the way)
Thanks
Guillaume
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### Author:  [@lukeelmers](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/lukeelmers)
#### Post date: [August 2, 2019, 5:51pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/timelion-split-auto-creates-yaxis/193499/2 "2019-08-02T17:51:23Z")
Hi @GitsBdr,
If I'm understanding correctly, you're asking about ways to remove all of the duplication when filtering on specific values?
Right now we don't have a great solution for that in timelion that I'm aware of, though [support for variables](https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/15545) is something that has come up before, so you may be interested in checking out that issue, or reading [the original issue](https://github.com/elastic/timelion/issues/87) from awhile back.
Is this the functionality you are looking for?
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### Author:  [@GitsBdr](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/GitsBdr)
#### Post date: [August 5, 2019, 1:47pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/timelion-split-auto-creates-yaxis/193499/3 "2019-08-05T13:47:48Z")
Hi @lukeelmers ,
Thanks for your reply
I was asking about a way to auto create yaxis based on the limit set up in the split function with timelion
If I split a metric by 5, I'll get 5 lines for example in my timelion but they might be populated by totally difference values, so I may need different yaxis to read those 5 lines
I hope I'm clear enough haha
Thanks again
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### Author:  [@lukeelmers](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/lukeelmers)
#### Post date: [August 5, 2019, 3:36pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/timelion-split-auto-creates-yaxis/193499/4 "2019-08-05T15:36:30Z")
Ah, yes unfortunately I don't believe we have a way to do that either, at the moment it requires duplicating with filters as you've done above, so that you can call each of the `yaxis()` functions explicitly
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### Author:  [@GitsBdr](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/GitsBdr)
#### Post date: [August 5, 2019, 3:55pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/timelion-split-auto-creates-yaxis/193499/5 "2019-08-05T15:55:20Z")
I see,
Is there any improvement coming soon about it or either about creating function with timelion ? I saw couple of topic/issue opened about it
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [September 2, 2019, 3:55pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/timelion-split-auto-creates-yaxis/193499/6 "2019-09-02T15:55:24Z")
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