# Visualize simple Datapoints in a line chart

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/visualize-simple-datapoints-in-a-line-chart/87945>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [June 1, 2017, 3:40pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/visualize-simple-datapoints-in-a-line-chart/87945 "2017-06-01T15:40:44Z")\
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**Author:** ![urnaim1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/dfb087/32.png) [@urnaim1](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/urnaim1)\
**Post date:** [June 1, 2017, 3:40pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/visualize-simple-datapoints-in-a-line-chart/87945/1 "2017-06-01T15:40:44Z")

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Hi all,

im totally new to kibana, and I have put some datapoints to elastic looking like this:

{"sensorname" : "light", "date":"1496320039623", "value": "30"}

Now I want to build a simple chart, where the x-axis is the date, and the Y-axis is the normal value. No Count, Min, Max or something like that. I just can't find out how I can make a simple chart with just the values and the time.

Maybe I just don't see my mistake, but I can't select something like "clean-value" in the aggregation. I wan't just a very simple table looking like the one I attached.

![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/2/f/2f8a39c3bfef2b2f05c66ab7599f7a5ae79a9f67.jpg)

Can someone help?  
Thank's in advance!

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**Author:** ![shaunak](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/shaunak/32/6643_2.png) [@shaunak](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/shaunak)\
**Post date:** [June 1, 2017, 5:25pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/visualize-simple-datapoints-in-a-line-chart/87945/2 "2017-06-01T17:25:50Z")

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Hi, welcome to Kibana!

The way Kibana works in this case is it divides up the x-axis values (time, in this case) into buckets. Then for each bucket, Kibana can only display aggregated values on the y-axis. Given that, what you are asking for is not exactly possible.

What you could do is choose a y-axis metric like average. Then, if you narrow down your x-axis time to a small enough time range, you might be left with single values in each x-axis time bucket so each value's average will be equal to its raw value.

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**Author:** ![urnaim1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/dfb087/32.png) [@urnaim1](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/urnaim1)\
**Post date:** [June 2, 2017, 10:40am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/visualize-simple-datapoints-in-a-line-chart/87945/3 "2017-06-02T10:40:46Z")

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Thank you, I will try this solution!

Cheers

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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:** [June 30, 2017, 10:40am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/visualize-simple-datapoints-in-a-line-chart/87945/4 "2017-06-30T10:40:52Z")

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