# Scalar metrics no longer automatically generate bar plots

**URL:** <https://community.wandb.ai/t/scalar-metrics-no-longer-automatically-generate-bar-plots/6024>\
**Category:** W&B Help\
**Created:** [March 2, 2024, 2:15pm UTC](https://community.wandb.ai/t/scalar-metrics-no-longer-automatically-generate-bar-plots/6024 "2024-03-02T14:15:28Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![yji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/bc8723/32.png) [@yji](https://community.wandb.ai/u/yji)\
**Post date:** [March 2, 2024, 2:15pm UTC](https://community.wandb.ai/t/scalar-metrics-no-longer-automatically-generate-bar-plots/6024/1 "2024-03-02T14:15:28Z")

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Recently my numerical metrics have stopped showing up in bar plot form automatically, and instead always shows up as a scatter plot with something else as the x-axis (e.g. number of steps)

This is super inconvenient - was this an intentional change? The automatic behavior from before was absolutely amazing in comparison.

Thanks in advance!

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**Author:** ![urara](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.wandb.ai/urara/32/1693_2.png) [@urara](https://community.wandb.ai/u/urara)\
**Post date:** [March 3, 2024, 7:56am UTC](https://community.wandb.ai/t/scalar-metrics-no-longer-automatically-generate-bar-plots/6024/2 "2024-03-03T07:56:44Z")

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I have observed a similar phenomenon within the past 24 hours, which differs from previous behavior.

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**Author:** ![mohammadbakir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a9a28c/32.png) [@mohammadbakir](https://community.wandb.ai/u/mohammadbakir)\
**Post date:** [March 5, 2024, 6:22pm UTC](https://community.wandb.ai/t/scalar-metrics-no-longer-automatically-generate-bar-plots/6024/3 "2024-03-05T18:22:55Z")

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Hi @yji , @urara we did make an internal change that will be reverted soon. Appreciate you flagging this and will be marking this solved. If you require further assistance, do let me know.

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**Author:** ![yji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/bc8723/32.png) [@yji](https://community.wandb.ai/u/yji)\
**Post date:** [October 28, 2024, 6:33pm UTC](https://community.wandb.ai/t/scalar-metrics-no-longer-automatically-generate-bar-plots/6024/4 "2024-10-28T18:33:21Z")

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Hi @mohammadbakir ,

I noticed that this behavior is occurring again; is there any way to fix this from our end?

Thanks in advance!

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**Author:** ![yji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/bc8723/32.png) [@yji](https://community.wandb.ai/u/yji)\
**Post date:** [December 13, 2024, 3:50pm UTC](https://community.wandb.ai/t/scalar-metrics-no-longer-automatically-generate-bar-plots/6024/5 "2024-12-13T15:50:35Z")

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Hi,

This is still happening, could anyone provide some assistance or advice? It seems that even though there’s only one value logged per run, the number of steps is logged with it and it becomes a scatterplot/lineplot when grouped.

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**Author:** ![yji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/bc8723/32.png) [@yji](https://community.wandb.ai/u/yji)\
**Post date:** [January 15, 2025, 3:33pm UTC](https://community.wandb.ai/t/scalar-metrics-no-longer-automatically-generate-bar-plots/6024/6 "2025-01-15T15:33:20Z")

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Still happening :.( I noticed that there have been some UI changes, would really appreciate if things like this were addressed first