# Way to easily compare two custom time/dates

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/way-to-easily-compare-two-custom-time-dates/273867>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [May 24, 2021, 8:43pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/way-to-easily-compare-two-custom-time-dates/273867 "2021-05-24T20:43:18Z")\
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**Author:** ![Tydorius](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/tydorius/32/88729_2.png) [@Tydorius](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Tydorius)\
**Post date:** [May 24, 2021, 8:43pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/way-to-easily-compare-two-custom-time-dates/273867/1 "2021-05-24T20:43:18Z")

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I am working to monitor network performance during a series of experiments. I'll be running identical experiments on various network configurations and would like to compare them.

Is there an easy way to configure a dashboard with two time/date ranges?

I know I can set up panels to have a specific offset for comparison, but I am looking at comparing 20 or so panels, and the offset will change. Some experiments may be run the same day and others may be run a week or more apart.

So creating panels with custom offsets is a lot more work than if there's a way to specify some kind of a global variable for all of your on-page offsets.

I hope there is a plugin of sorts to allow this through dashboards or reporting.

This is not urgent. If there is not a good way to go about this, I will simply create one dashboard with single columns of panels, and then copy/paste from the reports into side-by-side views.

Thank you for your time.

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**Author:** ![AClerk](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/aclerk/32/55297_2.png) [@AClerk](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/AClerk)\
**Post date:** [May 25, 2021, 12:00am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/way-to-easily-compare-two-custom-time-dates/273867/2 "2021-05-25T00:00:16Z")

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Maybe try Canvas.  
It is not pretty, and UX is quite bad, but it will provide you the solution. I think.

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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 22, 2021, 12:01am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/way-to-easily-compare-two-custom-time-dates/273867/3 "2021-06-22T00:01:13Z")

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