It would be really useful if chart axis labels could be edited - e.g. instead of 'count of documents' as a y-axis label, I'd really like the ability to relabel it as 'number of observations', etc.
AlexIoannides
All 138 comments
+1 but extended to include the labels for each item as well
for instance if the split chart shows 6 groups of data, the label for each group is currently similar to:
"Top N $fieldname: $Value"
In charts that have a number of items, or on smaller screens you end up seeing "Top 4..." for each item.
(Attached and example that shows the original request and and my extension)
thorrsson
on 22 Dec 2014
+1 or even just dont show the "Top N $fieldname:" part and just show the value of the field.
matthewgaulin
on 28 Jan 2015
+1
opswhisperer
on 4 Feb 2015
Customizable legend names and customizable names and orientations for SplitChart rows would be awesome too.
theNewFlesh
on 5 Feb 2015
+1
chadrik
on 5 Feb 2015
This is immensely frustrating for the reasons that Thorsson has described. Additionally, instead of top/bottom, I'd like to be able to define the order in which its split (for example I'm trying to do bytes(total) ~ Time | Node).
Blevene
on 5 Feb 2015
Also customizable axis ticks (as opposed to labels) would be very helpful. Configuring their display with a formatting string would be a very workable solution from my perspective. This link gives one such specification for formatting string syntax: https://docs.python.org/2/library/datetime.html#strftime-and-strptime-behavior
theNewFlesh
on 19 Feb 2015
@theNewFlesh, it might be good to the tick suggestion into a separate ticket, since it is more limited in scope and would likely be solved in a different way than axes labels.
chadrik
on 19 Feb 2015
+1
jyana
on 27 Feb 2015
+1
chadrik
on 27 Feb 2015
+1
joelclimbsthings
on 20 Mar 2015
Yes please, make it able to customize labels, axis and stuff !
carlosvega
on 7 Apr 2015
+1
ignaciovazquez
on 14 Apr 2015
+1
Just wondering when this feature will be available? Customizing axis labels will be a useful feature to have. Thanks.
pnarwa
on 22 Apr 2015
+1
rcrezende
on 24 Apr 2015
+1
vikrim1
on 28 Apr 2015
+1. I want to add unit to describe the unit of the numbers in x-axis
marvin659
on 5 May 2015
+1 . This would be a very helpful feature if provided. Because for some of the filed names where we don't have much control in terms of representing in meaningful labels.
phanisrinivas
on 9 May 2015
+1 (marvin659)
acheriat
on 11 May 2015
What I mean is so commonplace but forgive me share my frustration ...
Indeed, While there are many advantages of Kibana, it is unfortunate to have to look for an alternative due to lack a basic features (but very important for a end user) such as:
- Renaming of legends, axis labels,
- Addition of a measurement unit to a quantity, ...etc.
acheriat
on 11 May 2015
+1
madrover
on 22 May 2015
+1
aclayola
on 1 Jun 2015
Major regression from 3 and is high on the list for me regarding not migrating to 4.
KamilKeski
on 6 Jun 2015
+1
alexnederlof
on 16 Jun 2015
+1
@rashidkpc @panda01 Should this enhancement be merged with https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/1896 from the 4.3 enhancment/roadmap? I beleive they are extremely similar requirements, as a field alias would give you the same outcome;
i.e. Ability to have field aliases per visualization/search object would be great, and more flexible, instead of per index.
You can combine this with the Ability to Hide "Top n ...", "Average ..", "Sum ..", "Count .." (via checkbox) that is force prepended to the axis titles. I have found this to be a bit annoying and misleading (in terms of presenting labels for data) under certain visualisation conditions.
nmors
on 17 Jun 2015
+1
bounddog
on 8 Jul 2015
+1
balamacab
on 10 Jul 2015
+1
blairjuice
on 10 Jul 2015
+1
tonykcn
on 14 Jul 2015
So not even hiding this for the next 2 versions? should we just downgrade to kibana 3? :(
ofir-petrushka
on 28 Jul 2015
Kind of surprising that this important request hasn't made it to 4.2 instead moved to 4.4
tarunsapra
on 5 Aug 2015
+1
novozhenets
on 5 Aug 2015
I thought I was missing something, but reading this issue, perhaps I'm not. "@timestamp per ..." is a fugly axis label. I guess I could specify some other field with a more readable name - without an at-sign prefix - as the timestamp, rather than @timestamp itself, but that seems like a kludge, or at least, an annoyance. Or perhaps people these days are so used to seeing words prefixed by non-alphabetic characters that "@timestamp" looks commonplace? #I'mnotthereyet.
Can someone point me to documentation (or a schema) for visState properties?
GrahamHannington
on 12 Aug 2015
+1
rkhapre
on 18 Aug 2015
+1
jakauppila
on 18 Aug 2015
Would love to have this in soon.
pmoust
on 19 Aug 2015
+1
cschotke
on 21 Aug 2015
+1
JohnnyQQQQ
on 26 Aug 2015
+1
laukamp
on 29 Aug 2015
+1
sebz1504
on 1 Sep 2015
@cherah30 your point regarding addition of a measurement unit is valid. This would be a really good feature. I have not needed millimeters, but percentage symbols is something that I would love to have, and have needed a several times while using kibana.
For obvious reasons, converting the field to a string is not practical but seems to be the only way. The field should remain numeric, and an option to append a unit of mesurement which would appear in the chart / on hover
nmors
on 1 Sep 2015
+1
How about letting us set a chart title too?
Edit: One nice thing about Kibana 3 is that less technical users can understand the charts better because we can title them. They don't need to know what the field names mean.
ghost
on 1 Sep 2015
+1
tpeyrard
on 1 Sep 2015
2284 @cherah30
nmors
on 2 Sep 2015
+1
bparruck
on 3 Sep 2015
+1
felka
on 4 Sep 2015
I'd also like to request this hits a version of Kibana that's compatible with ES 1.7. We are still stuck on Kibana 3 because we can't put titles on our charts in Kibana 4.
Moving to ES >= 2.x just to be able to get chart titles in Kibana would be a difficult thing to do due to how many applications we have that use ES 1.x at the moment.
ghost
on 7 Sep 2015
+1
Soszu
on 9 Sep 2015
+1
ghost
on 14 Sep 2015
+1
hegold
on 14 Sep 2015
+1000, 8 months and counting, it's about time this issue was addressed. For us this is a serious problem in terms of acceptance.
jomar83
on 15 Sep 2015
We're in the process of completely reworking the charting library and putting that out in the near future.
panda01
on 15 Sep 2015
@panda01 That's excellent news and I am very grateful to hear this! Will this end up in a version of Kibana that is compatible with ES 1.7? (If not it's bad luck, but just so I know what direction to go forward with in the near future)
ghost
on 16 Sep 2015
+1
gerrytan
on 16 Sep 2015
+1
Sar82
on 16 Sep 2015
+1
kirrg001
on 16 Sep 2015
+1
PasghettiCode
on 16 Sep 2015
+1
philosoralphter
on 17 Sep 2015
@michaelredfox we don't backport new features, mainly only bug fixes.
panda01
on 17 Sep 2015
+1
AnkurMathur14
on 21 Sep 2015
+1
tomlameche
on 21 Sep 2015
+1
Inderjeet26
on 23 Sep 2015
+1, this would be a really useful feature
npvincent
on 26 Sep 2015
Hi, I worked around the problem by using "Filters" type in "Sub aggregation".
Then I setup my filter (the name of the original label) then I click on the gear and write your custom label name!
As a picture may be easier to understand:
I hope it will help some of you.
tpeyrard
on 30 Sep 2015
+1
coderlol
on 2 Oct 2015
That label would be even more useful if users could specify the label to be derived from an existing field or a combination of existing fields
coderlol
on 2 Oct 2015
+1
When is the earliest this feature will be available?
maheedhar-cc
on 5 Oct 2015
+1
hankwutw
on 10 Oct 2015
:+1:
StephenOTT
on 15 Oct 2015
+1
logilouis
on 19 Oct 2015
+1
nzlosh
on 23 Oct 2015
+1
TalElgali
on 25 Oct 2015
+1
marcfowler
on 26 Oct 2015
+1
exic
on 27 Oct 2015
+1
dapicard
on 27 Oct 2015
:+1:
@avivl @doodyparizada @fuzzyami @bolshoy
oryband
on 28 Oct 2015
:+1:
avivl
on 28 Oct 2015
:+1:
fuzzyami
on 28 Oct 2015
:+1:
doodyparizada
on 28 Oct 2015
+1 "Percentile ranks of Average latency" is not human, it would be better to cusomize it and make it more friendly, as you did with the buckets.
saez0pub
on 5 Nov 2015
+1
raffis
on 5 Nov 2015
+1
shinesamuel1989
on 16 Nov 2015
+1
willstedt
on 16 Nov 2015
+1
MaryGeorgiou
on 17 Nov 2015
+1
eamosov
on 17 Nov 2015
+1
Customizable label for fields at the Index Schema (format) level + over-rides at Dashboard level
sijocherian
on 23 Nov 2015
+1
sranga
on 23 Nov 2015
I just want to be able to change the label text, anything above and beyond that would just be icing on the cake. Sometimes my dashboards just say "count" as a label and other times old unused legacy terms.
montanaflynn
on 3 Dec 2015
+1.
Having the ability to change the labels of fields per visualization will definitely be a most welcomed feature.
kpcool
on 5 Dec 2015
+1
damienmollard
on 8 Dec 2015
+1
dcrosse
on 8 Dec 2015
+1
oriolgm
on 10 Dec 2015
+1
andrewh
on 11 Dec 2015
+1 Would love to be able to replace Kibana 3 with 4, but losing screen real estate to a dozen '@timestamp per 5 minutes' labels and x-axis markers means we can't display the same amount of information without buying higher resolution monitors.
AlexClineBB
on 11 Dec 2015
+1
rauljim
on 15 Dec 2015
+1 to this...this feature was standard in Kibana 3 by pinning and giving a Legend Value, is completely missing with Kibana 4, and is now an "enhancement" in Kibana 5.I'm in exactly the same boat as @AlexClineBB.....Kibana 4 is cluttered with useless junk that I have no control over.
DigiAngel
on 21 Dec 2015
+1
JacquesPerrault
on 21 Dec 2015
+1
Cyberuben
on 24 Dec 2015
Could I suggest that this is a P2 issue as opposed to P3 issue?
Personally, being able to give a specific name to an axis is more than just a "nice to have" - it's the top request we get from all our users, who often get confused with the auto-generated axis labels. I'm not aware of any obvious work-around and judging from the above, I reckon it could be classified as "broadly applicable".
Thanks.
AlexIoannides
on 5 Jan 2016
Thanks!
AlexIoannides
on 5 Jan 2016
@AlexIoannides Yea this and color customization are the reasons I won't upgrade yet, so ya...I concur.
DigiAngel
on 5 Jan 2016
+1
BenoitTanker
on 15 Jan 2016
+1
RobertLukan
on 17 Jan 2016
+1
v01t
on 18 Jan 2016
+1
fenneh
on 19 Jan 2016
+1
AJLogan
on 20 Jan 2016
+1
chespix
on 21 Jan 2016
Thanks Alex - we are in the same boat.
I've searched for an easy way to resolve this myself but came up empty.
On Jan 5, 2016, at 9:32 AM, Alex Ioannides [email protected] wrote:
Could I suggest that this is a P2 issue as opposed to P3 issue?
Personally, being able to give a specific name to an axis is more than just a "nice to have" - it's the top request we get from all our users, who often get confused with the auto-generated axis labels. I'm not aware of any obvious work-around and judging from the above, I reckon it could be classified as "broadly applicable".
Thanks.
—
Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub.
ryanmaclean
on 21 Jan 2016
My workaround is to find the html tags using JavaScript and replace the text. BUT, you need to check every time you update the dashboard, like, changing the selected interval of time and re-replace the axis. Dirty but useful.
carlosvega
on 22 Jan 2016
+1
abdbaddude
on 25 Jan 2016
+1
chakrayadavalli
on 25 Jan 2016
+1
ochedru
on 27 Jan 2016
@panda01 , Is there any progress on this? I'm really curious about why this feature that looks simple is not done yet.
Thanks anyway !
carlosvega
on 28 Jan 2016
+1
megakid
on 28 Jan 2016
@carlosvega it's not so simple. We use labels as an ID to associate colors and the like with its proper data set. However I am working on it now.
panda01
on 28 Jan 2016
@panda01 Let me know if there's anything we can do to assist. I might be able to assign one of our devs to work on this for a bit, or I could do some testing, etc, etc. Ping me if anything comes to mind.
AlexIoannides
on 28 Jan 2016
Pleaz i need it!!!
bdh1011
on 1 Feb 2016
+1, could not come sooner
abtpst
on 3 Feb 2016
+1
geoffreymuchai
on 4 Feb 2016
This was taken care of by https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/5142. It might make it into 4.5.0 if someone back ports it, otherwise its going into 5.0.0
rashidkpc
on 4 Feb 2016
Thanks hope this could be implemented on 4.5
inzomiac
on 9 Feb 2016
@rashidkpc that is a interesting screenshot :smile: 'usagov' and Breakfast beers :smiley:
StephenOTT
on 10 Feb 2016
@inzomiac It was backported to 4.x: https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/6123
It will be in 4.5.0 and is in the current 4.5.0 snapshots.
rashidkpc
on 10 Feb 2016
+1
siddharthdey87
on 18 Mar 2016
+1
SethDobson
on 4 Apr 2016
Is there still no way to completely disable the label? Many of the issues closed as duplicate of this one called for that explicitly. One of them should be reopened.
jwheare
on 5 Apr 2016
+10086
devlhl
on 11 Apr 2016
+1
giorgio94c
on 1 Jul 2016
+1
AScripnic
on 18 Jul 2016
+1
antonin42
on 19 Jul 2016
+1
dnajd
on 9 Sep 2016
+1
Dominoo
on 19 Oct 2016
+1
Asyfupid
on 4 Nov 2016
+1
Staringlizard
on 22 Dec 2016
+1
fawix
on 25 May 2017
Now, the ugly work around... If you copy the characters between the quotes " " and paste it into the 'Custom Label' textbox, it should show up blank. It's using the character with Unicode U+00AD to display something that looks like nothing to the user.
https://discuss.elastic.co/t/set-custom-label-feature-to-blank/76759/6
S1lentControl
on 12 Jul 2017
Is there still no way to do this in Kibana 6?
Our feedback is: the axis labels are already as unintuitive as you can get (<value>: <field name> instead of the more logical <value>) and we need to hide them.
Or even worse: <value>: <field name> <sort>:
Note: All these vizualisations have "Show Labels" unchecked:
cawoodm
on 23 Jan 2018
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Most helpful comment
Hi, I worked around the problem by using "Filters" type in "Sub aggregation".
Then I setup my filter (the name of the original label) then I click on the gear and write your custom label name!
As a picture may be easier to understand:
I hope it will help some of you.