Set minimum auto-interval interval on date_histogram

[rylewell-msft]

We have many time-series metrics that are sampled at a predefined interval and placed into Elasticsearch for visualization with Kibana. Generally, we setup all of the resulting charts to use the dynamic sampling interval (i.e. try to generate N data points spanning the domain that is being visualized).

This works well as long as the user does not zoom in too much.When the user zooms in far enough that the sampling interval of the chart is less than twice that of the underlying data, we get sampling artifacts:

It would be great if we could specify a minimum sampling interval on the chart so that users may zoom in without generating charts that have aliasing artifacts.

[rashidkpc]

++ great idea

[Platzii]

+1

[jeroenmaas]

+1

[cwlowder]

+1

[shaharmor]

Would love to see this

[toddferg]

+1 to this idea

[ghudgins]

this request is about doing auto interval with a minimum "floor" - and not the custom interval on date histograms...currently possible in TSVB

[timductive]

Closing this because it's not planned to be resolved in the foreseeable future. It will be tracked in our Icebox and will be re-opened if our priorities change. Feel free to re-open if you think it should be melted sooner.