# Adding Leading Zeros To Lens Metric
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/adding-leading-zeros-to-lens-metric/313210
**Category:** Kibana
**Tags:** lens
**Created:** [August 30, 2022, 5:02am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/adding-leading-zeros-to-lens-metric/313210 "2022-08-30T05:02:12Z")
**Posts on this page:** 9
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### Author:  [@rblob](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/rblob)
#### Post date: [August 30, 2022, 5:02am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/adding-leading-zeros-to-lens-metric/313210/1 "2022-08-30T05:02:12Z")
Could anyone enlighten me as to whether it is possible to add leading zeros to the Metric Visualisation?
I am trying to get the count of all records from a specific query and I would like to add zeros before that value and have it be displayed
e.g., 0000123 showing on the visualisation
No, I would not like this on the ingest pipeline
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### Author:  [@Stratoula\_Kalafateli](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Stratoula_Kalafateli)
#### Post date: [August 30, 2022, 7:56am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/adding-leading-zeros-to-lens-metric/313210/2 "2022-08-30T07:56:19Z")
Hey @rblob, no this is not possible atm. You can create a feature request here [Sign in to GitHub ยท GitHub](https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/new?assignees=&labels=&template=Feature_request.md)
What is your case? Why do you want to add leading zeros?
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### Author:  [@rblob](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/rblob)
#### Post date: [August 30, 2022, 9:20pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/adding-leading-zeros-to-lens-metric/313210/3 "2022-08-30T21:20:57Z")
Thank you for the quick reply, @Stratoula_Kalafateli.
That's a shame, in my circumstance I believe it would be useful for copying and pasting values that must conform to a specific length, such as my prior example.
Is this something that could be achieved using Vega visualisations?
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### Author:  [@Stratoula\_Kalafateli](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Stratoula_Kalafateli)
#### Post date: [August 31, 2022, 5:31am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/adding-leading-zeros-to-lens-metric/313210/4 "2022-08-31T05:31:58Z")
I see, you can't create a metric viz with vega. f you align your Lens metrics on the right side on your dashboard? Will it help on your use case?
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### Author:  [@rblob](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/rblob)
#### Post date: [September 1, 2022, 2:07am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/adding-leading-zeros-to-lens-metric/313210/5 "2022-09-01T02:07:29Z")
That's odd, I would've thought you could use vega to display the total number of records as text. I was then hoping it could be modified to add leading zeroes.
Unfortunately, that wouldn't help my use case.
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### Author:  [@rblob](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/rblob)
#### Post date: [September 4, 2022, 9:25pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/adding-leading-zeros-to-lens-metric/313210/6 "2022-09-04T21:25:53Z")
@Stratoula_Kalafateli, are you aware of any other methods to solve my problem?
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### Author:  [@Stratoula\_Kalafateli](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Stratoula_Kalafateli)
#### Post date: [September 5, 2022, 6:11am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/adding-leading-zeros-to-lens-metric/313210/7 "2022-09-05T06:11:43Z")
I am afraid that I am not. Can you open a feature request for that?
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### Author:  [@rblob](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/rblob)
#### Post date: [September 11, 2022, 1:55pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/adding-leading-zeros-to-lens-metric/313210/8 "2022-09-11T13:55:08Z")
Sure
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [October 9, 2022, 1:55pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/adding-leading-zeros-to-lens-metric/313210/9 "2022-10-09T13:55:15Z")
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