Kibana histogram - drawing multiple series on a single chart

Question

I have an index in Elasticsearch which contains an array of simple objects (key-value please see example below).

The documents have a timestamp.

I can creat

Answer 1

For sharing the knowledge regarding newer Kibana versions, this is easy using Kibana's TimeLion tool. Select "Timeseries" when you are asked for the Visualization to create.

It was enough for me to follow the few dialogs that pop up at the beginning to understand how to get started. Something like this should kick it off:

.es('showstatus.variable_name:bytes_sent'), .es('showstatus.variable_name:bytes_received')