Customizable axis labels

[AlexIoannides]

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.

[thorrsson]

+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)

[matthewgaulin]

+1 or even just dont show the "Top N $fieldname:" part and just show the value of the field.

[opswhisperer]

+1

[theNewFlesh]

Customizable legend names and customizable names and orientations for SplitChart rows would be awesome too.

[chadrik]

+1

[Blevene]

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).

[theNewFlesh]

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

[chadrik]

@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.

[jyana]

+1

[chadrik]

+1

[joelclimbsthings]

+1

[carlosvega]

Yes please, make it able to customize labels, axis and stuff !

[ignaciovazquez]

+1

[pnarwa]

+1
Just wondering when this feature will be available? Customizing axis labels will be a useful feature to have. Thanks.

[rcrezende]

+1

[vikrim1]

+1

[marvin659]

+1. I want to add unit to describe the unit of the numbers in x-axis

[phanisrinivas]

+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.

[acheriat]

+1 (marvin659)

[acheriat]

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.

[madrover]

+1

[aclayola]

+1

[carlosvega]

@panda01 , Is there any progress on this? I'm really curious about why this feature that looks simple is not done yet.
Thanks anyway !

[megakid]

+1

[panda01]

@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.

[AlexIoannides]

@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.

[bdh1011]

Pleaz i need it!!!

[abtpst]

+1, could not come sooner

[geoffreymuchai]

+1

[rashidkpc]

This was taken care of by #5142. It might make it into 4.5.0 if someone back ports it, otherwise its going into 5.0.0

[inzomiac]

Thanks hope this could be implemented on 4.5

[StephenOTT]

@rashidkpc that is a interesting screenshot 😄 'usagov' and Breakfast beers 😃

[rashidkpc]

@inzomiac It was backported to 4.x: #6123

It will be in 4.5.0 and is in the current 4.5.0 snapshots.

[siddharthdey87]

+1

[SethDobson]

+1

[jwheare]

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.

[vauns]

+10086

[giorgio94c]

+1

[AScripnic]

+1

[antonin42]

+1

[dnajd]

+1

[ackdom]

+1

[Asyfupid]

+1

[Staringlizard]

+1

[fawix]

+1

[S1lentControl]

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

[cawoodm]

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:

[alexsanjoseph]

👍