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The Hosts List by default uses a 15-minute duration which can cause charts to be unusable for end users. This documentation attempts to explain why users might see dashed lines in their hosts charts, and how to determine if the dashed lines are merely an interval problem, or a missing data problem.

Closes https://github.com/elastic/observability-docs/issues/3127.

@roshan-elastic, thanks for the very in-depth explanation in #3127.

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I'm going to merge this to ensure we're ready for the 8.10 release. All feedback is still welcome—I'll open a new PR with suggested changes.

@bmorelli25 bmorelli25 merged commit ff45b6f into elastic:main Sep 12, 2023
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* docs: hosts and dashed lines

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(cherry picked from commit ff45b6f)
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* docs: hosts and dashed lines

* clean

(cherry picked from commit ff45b6f)

Co-authored-by: Brandon Morelli <[email protected]>
[[dashed-interval-and-missing]]
==== The chart interval is too short and data is missing

In the screenshot below, the data emission rate is lower than the Lens chart interval **and** there is missing data.
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the data emission rate is lower

Would it make sense to explain that this happens because of the period interval configured in metricbeat/integration package?

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