# Control Number of Decimal Places in Kibana Metric Visualization?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/control-number-of-decimal-places-in-kibana-metric-visualization/67902>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [December 2, 2016, 8:02pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/control-number-of-decimal-places-in-kibana-metric-visualization/67902 "2016-12-02T20:02:29Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
**Page:** 1

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Maxwell\_Flanders](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Maxwell\_Flanders](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Maxwell_Flanders)\
**Post date:** [December 2, 2016, 8:02pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/control-number-of-decimal-places-in-kibana-metric-visualization/67902/1 "2016-12-02T20:02:29Z")

</div>

Is there a way to do this?? Some of our metrics are displaying numbers of unwieldy lengths and it would be really nice to trim that down.

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![spalger](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/spalger/32/14092_2.png) [@spalger](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/spalger)\
**Post date:** [December 2, 2016, 11:27pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/control-number-of-decimal-places-in-kibana-metric-visualization/67902/2 "2016-12-02T23:27:12Z")

</div>

If you head into the settings for your index pattern you can change the way the number formatter works. Checkout [this doc page](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/5.0/field-formatters-numeric.html) for more info about how to pick the right format.

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [December 30, 2016, 11:27pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/control-number-of-decimal-places-in-kibana-metric-visualization/67902/3 "2016-12-30T23:27:40Z")

</div>

This topic was automatically closed 28 days after the last reply. New replies are no longer allowed.