# User Retention Analysis in Kibana (Cohorts)

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/user-retention-analysis-in-kibana-cohorts/120733>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [February 20, 2018, 10:09pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/user-retention-analysis-in-kibana-cohorts/120733 "2018-02-20T22:09:40Z")\
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**Author:** ![geoff\_yalo](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/geoff_yalo/32/28323_2.png) [@geoff\_yalo](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/geoff_yalo)\
**Post date:** [February 20, 2018, 10:09pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/user-retention-analysis-in-kibana-cohorts/120733/1 "2018-02-20T22:09:40Z")

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Hi,

I would like to create a chart in Kibana showing user retention by cohort over time. See below as an example of what I would like to create. The chart below shows that among users who started on Day 0, ~50% returned on Day 1, and ~2-3% returned on Day 30.

![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/3/8/38b1794ba1e70aa63339199a9ee12bdf66c20f95.jpg)

Is this possible to create in Kibana? I installed the cohort analysis chart plugin by elo7, but that doesn't serve this use case.

Tagging the following based on related threads: @Anthony_H @LeeDr @Raz_Lachyani @Mark_Harwood @raghvendra

Thanks,  
Geoffrey

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**Author:** ![Mark\_Harwood](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/mark_harwood/32/10538_2.png) [@Mark\_Harwood](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Mark_Harwood)\
**Post date:** [February 21, 2018, 9:32am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/user-retention-analysis-in-kibana-cohorts/120733/2 "2018-02-21T09:32:06Z")

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Looks like if you created an [entity-centric index](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yBf7oeJKH2Y) on user and held a `daysUntilReturn` property you could draw a chart much like this age distribution example:

 ![Kibana](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/3/6/36e857b45e679766dca3d5e6d2d424baea40c70a.png)

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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:** [March 21, 2018, 9:32am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/user-retention-analysis-in-kibana-cohorts/120733/3 "2018-03-21T09:32:17Z")

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