Timelion is an visualization tool for time series in Kibana. Time series visualizations are visualizations, that analyze data in time order. Timelion can be used to draw two dimensional graphs, with the time drawn on the x-axis. What’s the advantage over just using plain bar or line visualizations? Timelion takes a different approach. Instead of using a visual editor to create charts, you define a
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