# Calculation of the mean in Kibana

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/calculation-of-the-mean-in-kibana/81188>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [April 4, 2017, 5:23pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/calculation-of-the-mean-in-kibana/81188 "2017-04-04T17:23:42Z")\
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**Author:** ![korsdecaying](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/dbc845/32.png) [@korsdecaying](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/korsdecaying)\
**Post date:** [April 4, 2017, 5:23pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/calculation-of-the-mean-in-kibana/81188/1 "2017-04-04T17:23:42Z")

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Can I use the kibana to calculate the average amount of index per minute on a time interval. More specifically, the number of packets of a certain type per minute read from Packetbeat, you need to calculate the average number of packets per minute

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**Author:** ![jbudz](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/jbudz/32/45922_2.png) [@jbudz](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jbudz)\
**Post date:** [April 4, 2017, 8:31pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/calculation-of-the-mean-in-kibana/81188/2 "2017-04-04T20:31:56Z")

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I'm not sure I follow exactly, something like this?  
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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [May 2, 2017, 8:32pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/calculation-of-the-mean-in-kibana/81188/3 "2017-05-02T20:32:17Z")

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