# Visualization Help - Methods to Show Status **URL:** \ **Category:** Kibana\ **Tags:** visualisation\ **Created:** [September 17, 2024, 4:36pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/visualization-help-methods-to-show-status/366689 "2024-09-17T16:36:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![erikg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/91b2a8/32.png) [@erikg](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/erikg)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2024, 4:36pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/visualization-help-methods-to-show-status/366689/1 "2024-09-17T16:36:57Z")
Hello, I was wondering what others are doing to visualize status health? I know this depends on the data but was wondering what others are doing? For example these are what I can do: ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/7/f/7f32586f1fc6753800767dbeffd71472f3993df4.png) ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/0/7/075fd199d42f5f53e3ec269293b5a8b6761e38cd.png) ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/3/2/32c75bdd9af72b44f9438ad36e2a5cf870d180c8.png) ---
**Author:** ![Marco\_Liberati](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/marco_liberati/32/82953_2.png) [@Marco\_Liberati](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Marco_Liberati)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2025, 2:29pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/visualization-help-methods-to-show-status/366689/2 "2025-02-13T14:29:20Z")
Hi @erikg sorry to reply a bit later here. There are currently different ways to handle this, in general using some sort of color mapping (either string to color, or color by value). In particular for the last picture of the bar chart, you can find some info on how conditionally colour bars in this post: [How to create thresholds in Lens - #3 by Marco\_Liberati](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-create-thresholds-in-lens/365034/3)