# Vega is Awesome... Customizable Graphs, Maps and fully searchable Visualizations

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/vega-is-awesome-customizable-graphs-maps-and-fully-searchable-visualizations/171545>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [March 8, 2019, 7:05pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/vega-is-awesome-customizable-graphs-maps-and-fully-searchable-visualizations/171545 "2019-03-08T19:05:05Z")\
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**Author:** ![avocado](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/df705f/32.png) [@avocado](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/avocado)\
**Post date:** [March 8, 2019, 7:05pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/vega-is-awesome-customizable-graphs-maps-and-fully-searchable-visualizations/171545/1 "2019-03-08T19:05:05Z")

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The Vega type visualization opens up so many possibilities in Kibana, and has allowed me to create lots custom visualizations that go beyond the standard options (which are also great!).

Here are a few super helpful resources that I found to get started:  
**Make a Scatter Plot, and get started with Vega**

  
**See some Standard examples/templates in Vega-lite**  

> **[Example Gallery](https://vega.github.io/vega-lite/examples/)**
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> Vega-Lite - a high-level grammar for statistical graphics. Vega-Lite provides a higher-level grammar for visual analysis, comparable to ggplot or Tableau, that generates complete Vega specifications. Vega-Lite specifications consist of simple...

  
**Add Elastic Base Maps and Zoom controls into your visualization**  
[https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/current/vega-with-a-map.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/current/vega-with-a-map.html)  
Note that in this last example you need to enable  
"mapStyle": true  
"zoomControl": true  
"scrollWheelZoom": true  
to make all the map controls work

Enjoy!

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**Author:** ![rashmi](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/rashmi/32/16391_2.png) [@rashmi](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/rashmi)\
**Post date:** [March 8, 2019, 7:26pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/vega-is-awesome-customizable-graphs-maps-and-fully-searchable-visualizations/171545/2 "2019-03-08T19:26:48Z")

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Thanks for the feedback and love towards Vega. I have passed it on to the team.

Cheers  
Rashmi

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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:** [April 5, 2019, 7:26pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/vega-is-awesome-customizable-graphs-maps-and-fully-searchable-visualizations/171545/3 "2019-04-05T19:26:49Z")

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