# Changing index pattern field format to "bytes" does not correctly format byte values for kibana visualizations

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/changing-index-pattern-field-format-to-bytes-does-not-correctly-format-byte-values-for-kibana-visualizations/221831>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Tags:** elastic-stack-monitoring\
**Created:** [March 3, 2020, 8:19am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/changing-index-pattern-field-format-to-bytes-does-not-correctly-format-byte-values-for-kibana-visualizations/221831 "2020-03-03T08:19:37Z")\
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**Author:** ![Mattness](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/mattness/32/52975_2.png) [@Mattness](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Mattness)\
**Post date:** [March 3, 2020, 8:19am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/changing-index-pattern-field-format-to-bytes-does-not-correctly-format-byte-values-for-kibana-visualizations/221831/1 "2020-03-03T08:19:37Z")

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Hello,

I changed the formatting for a field in my index pattern like this:

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/a/a/aa619dffee85c8c64c46c6fcb32964ceb17a6da3.png)

However when I access the field via a visualization it is still unformatted:

![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/b/e/bec8a3720d69f3b86294d60aff377953173a12e0.png)

I want it to display the value in mb/gb. Is this a misconfiguration on my part or a bug?

Regards, Mattness

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**Author:** ![matw](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/matw/32/13913_2.png) [@matw](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/matw)\
**Post date:** [March 3, 2020, 4:15pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/changing-index-pattern-field-format-to-bytes-does-not-correctly-format-byte-values-for-kibana-visualizations/221831/2 "2020-03-03T16:15:36Z")

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Hi

Thanks for reaching out!

I've tried with our demo data, it was formatted. Which Kibana Version are you using, which Visualization doesn't work?

Many thanx!  
Matthias

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**Author:** ![Mattness](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/mattness/32/52975_2.png) [@Mattness](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Mattness)\
**Post date:** [March 4, 2020, 12:20pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/changing-index-pattern-field-format-to-bytes-does-not-correctly-format-byte-values-for-kibana-visualizations/221831/3 "2020-03-04T12:20:54Z")

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Figured it out. Kibana requires a restart before applying the changes. After I restarted Kibana a few times everything was updated.

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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:** [April 1, 2020, 12:21pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/changing-index-pattern-field-format-to-bytes-does-not-correctly-format-byte-values-for-kibana-visualizations/221831/4 "2020-04-01T12:21:01Z")

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