Kibana: Heatmap: There are too many series defined (Ref:#10132)

Created on 22 Jun 2017 · 9Comments · Source: elastic/kibana

Kibana version: 5.4
Elasticsearch version: 5.4
Server OS version: SLES 12 x64
Browser version: Chrome
Browser OS version: Windows 7
Original install method (e.g. download page, yum, from source, etc.): Download page
Reference issue: #10132

Description of the problem including expected versus actual behavior:

I'm trying to visualise data with heatmap. If I set in aggrigation show me top 6 terms in X-Axis and top 8 terms on the Y-Axis then I recive message "There are too many series defined"

Steps to reproduce:

Select index
Set top 6 term with some Field in X-Axis
Set top 8 term with the same Field in Y-Axis

Visualizations KibanaApp

Source

sasauz

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Most helpful comment

The number of bucket here is currently limited to 25. We will increase it and make in configureable via Advanced Configuration

kertal on 19 Jun 2019

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I ran into this issue in a few use cases

Use case: CPU core utilization

My workstation has 20 cores / 40 hyperthreads.

I am using metricbeat and wanted to show per-core CPU utilization over time. I can show up to 10 items, but I have 40 cores I'd like to show.

Use case: Hockey team summary

Hockey teams have more than 10 players. I'd like to show a roster sheet of players and statistics (statistics being goals, assists, penalties, etc)

jordansissel on 5 Dec 2017

I'm hitting this as well. My use-case is trying to dsiplay a heat-map of temperatures from many different locations over a dynamic but not huge range (i.e., temperature). I have the following:

It seems that currently there is no other visualisation on offer to display dense data in a readable fashion?

joshuar on 16 Apr 2018

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alexsanjoseph on 28 Feb 2019

Same issue here: Have 20+ buckets on the y-axis and getting the same message (There are too many series defined). Is there a maximum number of (sub) buckets?

Kibana 6.4.3 here