[Lens] Page for Metric charts

.gitignore

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 .github/instructions/**.instructions.md
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+# VS code settings
+.vscode

explore-analyze/_snippets/lens-breakdown-advanced-settings.md

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+:::{dropdown} Advanced settings
+Several advanced options allow you to refine the behavior of the breakdown:
+
+- **Include documents without the selected field**: Off by default.
+- **Group remaining values as "Other"**: On by default.
+- **Enable accuracy mode**: This option improves results for high-cardinality data, but increases the load on the {{es}} cluster.
+- **Include values**: Values from the breakdown dimension to always show a tile for.
+- **Exclude values**: Values from the breakdown dimension to always exclude from the displayed tiles.
+:::

explore-analyze/_snippets/lens-value-advanced-settings.md

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+:::{dropdown} Advanced settings
+Depending on the data you defined, several options allow you to apply additional filtering to the data taken into account to compute the metric's value:
+
+- **Normalize by unit**: Normalize the metric values to show per unit of time.
+- **Filter by**: Specify a query.
+- **Reduced time range**: Reduce the time range specified on the dashboard's time filter by the specified duration.
+- **Time shift**: Shift the time range by the specified duration.
+- **Hide zero values**: Don't show values equal to zero. This option is on by default.
+:::

explore-analyze/toc.yml

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       - file: visualize/visualize-library.md
       - file: visualize/manage-panels.md
       - file: visualize/lens.md
+        children:
+          - hidden: visualize/charts/metric-charts.md
       - file: visualize/esorql.md
       - file: visualize/custom-visualizations-with-vega.md
       - file: visualize/text-panels.md

explore-analyze/visualize/lens.md

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 ```{applies_to}
 stack: ga 9.2
 ```
+When creating or editing a visualization, you can customize several appearance options. To do that, look for the {icon}`brush` icon.
+
 **Primary metric**
 :   Define the formatting of the primary metric in terms of **Position**, **Alignment**, and **Font size**.