# Why nothing shows in timelion of kibana

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/why-nothing-shows-in-timelion-of-kibana/88557>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [June 7, 2017, 10:53am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/why-nothing-shows-in-timelion-of-kibana/88557 "2017-06-07T10:53:41Z")\
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**Author:** ![Tony\_Wang](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/45deac/32.png) [@Tony\_Wang](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Tony_Wang)\
**Post date:** [June 7, 2017, 10:53am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/why-nothing-shows-in-timelion-of-kibana/88557/1 "2017-06-07T10:53:41Z")

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Hi

I have stored lots of data into Elastic Search with python directly. Now I want to display them in timelion dashboard.

But nothing data found there. The time format I stored looks well. Is anything else wrong with my data?

![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/d/f/df6073d325ab2f396b269a979d67685aa857093e.png)

![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/a/d/adb81f3adae7097d738420dcc39c9c474a82a31a.png)

![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/8/c/8c8caecd3b2dbdf80f2f835dbcca4126351943f5.png)

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**Author:** ![Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/christian_dahlqvist/32/4617_2.png) [@Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Christian_Dahlqvist)\
**Post date:** [June 7, 2017, 11:13am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/why-nothing-shows-in-timelion-of-kibana/88557/2 "2017-06-07T11:13:50Z")

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As your time field is named `time` and not `@timestamp`, which is the default, I suspect you will need to specify the time field as shown in [this example from the docs](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/current/timelion-create.html).

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**Author:** ![Tony\_Wang](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/45deac/32.png) [@Tony\_Wang](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Tony_Wang)\
**Post date:** [June 7, 2017, 12:05pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/why-nothing-shows-in-timelion-of-kibana/88557/3 "2017-06-07T12:05:24Z")

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Hi Christian, Thanks for your reply. I changed the time to timestamp. The chart in "Discover" page shows well. TImelion still keep nothing with .es(\*)

 ![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/e/7/e7750ae3d49fb97b9fdf88559b078b7a095b4bf8.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:** [July 5, 2017, 12:05pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/why-nothing-shows-in-timelion-of-kibana/88557/4 "2017-07-05T12:05:51Z")

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