Visual Builder Totally Empty

[cawoodm]

Kibana version:
6.4

Elasticsearch version:
6.4

Server OS version:
Windows 2012

Browser version:
Chrome

Browser OS version:
Windows 10

Original install method (e.g. download page, yum, from source, etc.):
MSI

Description of the problem including expected versus actual behavior:
When creating a new Visual Builder Viz it's always empty. No matter which index we choose or how wide the time span no count data is returned.

Steps to reproduce:

1. Click Vizualize
2. Click +
3. Click Visual Builder
4. Nothing is shown (a flat zero count line):

If we click through the "Panel Options" and "Annotations" tabs a few times something is shown and it starts to work normally.

It also doesn't always pick up the timestamp field on some indices although Kibana knows them.

Browser console:

[markov00]

@cawoodm I think this is a possible issue related to this one: #22931
Could you please check the following:

• when you created the visual builder visualization, could you check if the information about an index pattern is visualized in the index pattern field of the Panel Options tab?
• could you check if the time fields selector is populated or not?
• could you check if, after changing the time picker, the time fields selector is populated?
  Thanks

[cawoodm]

1. Yes, we see the index pattern:
   
2. Nope, no time field is selected (see above).
3. Yes, when I select timestamp I start to see life:
   

Just so you know: our index has the time filter defined properly:

[markov00]

thanks @cawoodm, this PR #24832 will fix this issue