Resizable legends

[farracha]

Some of my fields have large names, i.e 20 chars or more, as Kibana concat metric's type name to the field name (average of, sum of, percentile of), the legend is cut-off by half.

Would make sense to enable resizing the right panel of the chart to overcome this limitation.

[Pol4r]

+1

[german23]

+1

[hraharahra]

+1 This would be very helpful for me.

[german23]

If somebody is interested in a dirty workaround for version 4.1.4 and below:

Edit the /path/to/your/kibana4/src/public/index.js file, scroll to the bottom of the file, look for the 'li.color' entry in the long config line, and edit the entry so it looks like this:

li.color {\n min-height: 22px;\n padding: 3px 9px 3px 9px;\n font-size: 12px;\n line-height: 13px;\n color: #666;\n cursor: default;\n text-align: left;\n white-space: normal;\n overflow-x: visible;\n text-overflow: ellipsis;\n max-width: 450px;\n width: 180px;\n}

This will Kibana prevent from spliting values of the legend into 2 lines/ hide them and make the legend field a bit bigger.
Of course you can vary the settings so it fits your needs,

Again, this only applies to kibana 4.1.4 , because in version 4.2 the folder structure looks different.

[buerfent]

+1

[florinandone]

+1

[DigiAngel]

Ah yes...+1 to this.

[fmazan]

+1

[serdar-eric]

+1

[erolirfan]

+1

[cgultunca]

+1

[m-gunes]

+1

[denizkanmaz]

+1

[muratbeyaztas]

+1

[hknylmz]

+1

[knowge]

+1

[darkshade9]

+1

[agirbal]

This would be really great to have, since some values need more characters to make sense, e.g. cipher names. Doing font resize does not seem to help. Thanks!

[fro-yo]

It's been 5 years, can someone fix this please?

[drugol]

There is a workaround: you can move the legend to the top or to the bottom.

[fro-yo]

That does not always work, look at @agirbal 's comment above

[lmaestracci]

Temporary hack for Kibana 7.6.1: in script built_assets/css/plugins/kibana/index.light.css

• if the legend is on the left/right : comment property width for selector .visLegend__list
• if the legend is at the top/bottom : comment property max-width for selector .visLib--legend-bottom .visLegend__list .visLegend__value

[emrahgunduz]

The problem still continues. Exported pdf/png files also trim the legend text.

[jane-speranska]

+1
and the workaround didn't solve the issue, unfortunately.

[kachunkachunk]

Throwing a +1 onto the fire - would be nice to be able to resize a chart's legend, or optionally have it auto-size based on longest value, etc.

[roeezolantz]

Would really appreciate if such feature will be implemented 👍 super useful !

[CptDolphin]

+1

[F-PMOR]

+1

[eimmers]

+1

[Leaf-Lin]

+1, I hope this can be implemented for all visualisation types include charts, lens, tsvb etc.

[Webreaper]

Astonishing that this hasn't been fixed. It's utterly ridiculous that the legend doesn't expand to use the horizontal space, but truncates the legend text at an absurdly short width.

[domule]

+1

This has been affecting all of our users for years now and just came up again today.

[domule]

I've just been informed that this will be resolved as part of a more general Legend redesign, see elastic/elastic-charts#580, in particular point 9, which is also tracked separately as elastic/elastic-charts#963.

[mohclips]

+1 Currently it makes our graphs mailed out to our customers look unprofessional.

[MakoWish]

+1
Not many, but we definitely do have some data sources where pie charts cut off half of the text I want to display. Would love to be able to just widen the panel to show all text, but it doesn't currently work that way. We can adjust the column width on Data Tables, but we can't adjust the column width of a pie chart's legend.

[alesmenzel]

👍

[mikkk3l]

+1

[kt9ck]

+1

[mheiniger]

+1

[ghudgins]

+1 necessary to preserve alignment of multiple pies

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[robcowart]

Here is another example of how the 7.14 legend width changes really mess up the consistent display of a dashboard...

7.13.x and earlier:

7.14 and later:

[ghudgins]

we have added a legend resize option to Lens and aggregation-based visualizations in 8.2 🎉

Also in discussion to make this the default so you don't have to change the settings on every panel on your dashboard #129474