Per visualization field formatters

[GrahamHannington]

I have a bar chart visualization that uses the Date Range aggregation. Each range spans 1 hour. I want the corresponding x-axis labels to look like this: "9am to 10am". I can do that by changing the value of the ("global") Kibana dateFormat setting to ha (from its default of MMMM Do YYYY, HH:mm:ss.SSS), but that affects all "pretty formatted dates" in Kibana, which is undesirable.

I want to specify dateFormat per visualization, to override the "global" setting.

I decided to create this issue after I replied to the related existing discussion thread "How can i change the x-axis labels for a date format in Kibana".

[rashidkpc]

You can change this on a per field basis using field formatters, but not per-visualization, updating issue title

[JuanCarniglia]

In order to achieve this, I have created a visualization (github.com/JuanCarniglia/kbn_picture_values_vis) that allows adjusting format (using numeral.js patterns) for each metric value, and also allows displaying a fontAwesome icon next to the value. Both the color of the value and the picture can change, according to a range the falls into. (i.e. From 0 to 50 RED, 50 to 100 green).

You think it would be nice to create a PR and add this to the metrics vis?

[quickdraw6906]

+1

[AliAqdasShah]

+1

[AlexPadd]

+1

[kaigrolik]

+1

[gmatheus]

+1

[cawoodm]

Agree. Sometimes we count the average (e.g. requests per minute) and it's not possible to set the format on the field since there is no field - documents are counted. If we want out visualization to display 6.6 and not 6.66666667 there is no way currently to achieve this only for the visualization without changing the global number format which is undesirable.

[wylieconlon]

While it doesn't address the oldest part of this request, we will soon have this feature in Lens. #56253

[timroes]

This has been adressed in Lens and released in 7.7, thus closing this.