# Add a custom metric to Kibana (4.1)

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/add-a-custom-metric-to-kibana-4-1/44539
**Category:** Kibana
**Created:** [March 16, 2016, 10:09am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/add-a-custom-metric-to-kibana-4-1/44539 "2016-03-16T10:09:13Z")
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### Author: ![tbragin](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/tbragin/32/45166_2.png) [@tbragin](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/tbragin)
#### Post date: [March 18, 2016, 2:09pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/add-a-custom-metric-to-kibana-4-1/44539/2 "2016-03-18T14:09:30Z")

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Kibana does not support creating fields using scripted metric aggregations:

> <https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/2646>

You might be able to use JSON input in aggregations to do something fancy like that -- see one example here: [Display concurrency in data on Kibana](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/display-concurrency-in-data-on-kibana/26006/2)

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