Kibana: Absolute "from", dynamic "to" in timepicker

[rmoff]

It would be really useful if the Absolute time picker had the option to use "Now" dynamically, in the same way Relative does. Currently Now just sets it to current timestamp and doesn't allow it to update dynamically. Use case is wanting to show data starting at a specific point (rather than "last two days" or something like that) and update as time moves forward.

[rashidkpc]

Its pretty unlikely we'll implement this in exactly this fashion. I'd rather see a new tab called "Custom" that allows you to input any elasticsearch date math expression

[webmstr]

See #2394.

[romfreiman]

+1

[givoly]

+1 this is plaguing all my dashboards. I have a master dashboard - I want it to begin with the date with when our service started till "now" always. No way to do this. Also, I have specific channel dashboards. Again, they began at a particular time, but they are ongoing. Their "master" dashboard should be cumulative till "now" when viewing, by default. This is impossible once again. What is the workaround that works well? Also, if I set it for a wide range, I just get a bunch of empty spaces in any time series. So it really messes up all my dashboards and requires me to adjust time range all the time for no reason other than to work around this limitation.

[jlruizmlg]

+1

[jinghuage]

Do we have a solution for this now? Thx.

[Bargs]

I was thinking about this, and I'm wondering if we can't just combine the Relative and Absolute tabs. The split doesn't really make sense to me. Just because you want one date to be relative/absolute, doesn't mean you want the other to be the same. On a single tab we could give users the inputs to specify a relative or absolute time for either from or to.

[jinghuage]

up vote on this

[lukasolson]

FYI, although there isn't a way for the UI to allow you to mix/match relative/absolute modes, you can actually go into the URL and change it so that it's supported. For example:

(from:'2016-10-01T06:00:00.000Z',mode:absolute,to:'2016-10-01T06:00:00.000Z'))

can be changed to

(from:'2016-10-01T06:00:00.000Z',mode:absolute,to:now))

[jinghuage]

This works. Thanks!

On Wed, Oct 4, 2017 at 11:11 AM, Lukas Olson [e-mail]
wrote:

FYI, although there isn't a way for the UI to allow you to mix/match
relative/absolute modes, you can actually go into the URL and change it so
that it's supported. For example:

(from:'2016-10-01T06:00:00.000Z',mode:absolute,to:'2016-
10-01T06:00:00.000Z'))

can be changed to

(from:'2016-10-01T06:00:00.000Z',mode:absolute,to:now))

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[nreese]

This is resolved in Kibana 7.0.0. A new react timepicker allows for setting from and to seperatly so one can be an absolute time and the other could be a relative time

You can mess around with the component at https://elastic.github.io/eui/#/forms/datepicker. Its at the bottom of the page

[elias6]

@nreese I tried that link and it was broken. How can I get the time picker with the absolute start and dynamic end? I looked around in Kibana and I couldn't find it.

[nreese]

I tried that link and it was broken. How can I get the time picker with the absolute start and dynamic end? I looked around in Kibana and I couldn't find it.

What version of Kibana are you using? The time picker was updated in Kibana 7.0.0

[elias6]

Thanks for telling me this. I am using 6.6.1. I am going to look into upgrading, although I may not do it any time soon because I am unfamiliar with Kibana.