When we make visualization in Kibana, especially when we use terms to party, some terms have a large amount of data, while others have a small amount of data. In this case, if we choose Linear on the Y-axis display, the image will be ugly. For example:

The data on the far left of the top is larger, and conversely, the data on the far right is smaller. In this case, the data on the far right is less obvious. Instead, if we set the Y-axis display to log, it would look like this:

As you can see in the image above, it’s easy to see the data on the far right.

In today’s tutorial, we’ll show and modify the visualized Scale Type.

Select the appropriate scale type in the visualization for better insight into the data

To prepare data

In today’s tutorial, we’ll use the index that comes with Kibana. Open the Kibana interface:

Click on the Add data:

Now our sample data is imported into Elasticsearch. In Elasticsearch we will generate an index called KiBANA_sample_datA_logs. In the following sections, we will back up the data for this index.

Make a visualization

We use the visualization provided by Kibana to figure out the distribution of each host:

Click Update above to form a visualization of the distribution of one of our hosts:

In the figure above, it is hard to see what the statistics of the rightmost host are. To get a good view, we click on Metrics & axes:

Above, we chose log as the scale type display:

Click the Update above:

After this modification, can we see all document values of the rightmost host more clearly? The approximate number should be around 90.