# Bytes formating in kibana **URL:** \ **Category:** Kibana\ **Created:** [September 28, 2017, 10:22am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/bytes-formating-in-kibana/102094 "2017-09-28T10:22:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![aboullaite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@aboullaite](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/aboullaite)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2017, 10:22am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/bytes-formating-in-kibana/102094/1 "2017-09-28T10:22:15Z")
Hi, Actually I know that's byte formatting is possible through kibana interface. However my question is a bit different since I'm getting some metrics in Kb and while using kibana bytes formation it consider it as bytes which makes the visualisation all wrong. Is there any workaround in that case ? Thanks ---
**Author:** ![immavalls](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/immavalls/32/146501_2.png) [@immavalls](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/immavalls)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2017, 8:22am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/bytes-formating-in-kibana/102094/2 "2017-09-29T08:22:50Z")
I believe you could use the [numeral.js](http://numeraljs.com/) format as stated in the documentation ([https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/current/field-formatters-numeric.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/current/field-formatters-numeric.html)) to achieve that. Try to use a manipulate function, e.g. multiply your field in the index pattern formating, say for 1024. `"multiply(1024)b"` ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2017, 8:23am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/bytes-formating-in-kibana/102094/3 "2017-10-27T08:23:08Z")
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