# \[Dashboard\] Proposal: Time spent by span type

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/dashboard-proposal-time-spent-by-span-type/194359>\
**Category:** APM\
**Tags:** ui\
**Created:** [August 8, 2019, 6:19am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/dashboard-proposal-time-spent-by-span-type/194359 "2019-08-08T06:19:28Z")\
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**Author:** ![lobotomist](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/lobotomist/32/57230_2.png) [@lobotomist](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/lobotomist)\
**Post date:** [August 8, 2019, 6:19am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/dashboard-proposal-time-spent-by-span-type/194359/1 "2019-08-08T06:19:28Z")

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![07%20PM](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/b/e/be6e4a6fe97a3a641a169383a5bf584bdbfbf8a9.png)

It would be good to have an option to switch display in percentages or milliseconds.

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**Author:** ![sqren](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/sqren/32/26110_2.png) [@sqren](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/sqren)\
**Post date:** [August 8, 2019, 8:27pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/dashboard-proposal-time-spent-by-span-type/194359/2 "2019-08-08T20:27:38Z")

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Hi,

Thanks for the suggestion! Is it both the chart and the metrics on top you'd like to be able to see in milliseconds?  
And can you elaborate a little on use cases where you would find this useful?

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**Author:** ![lobotomist](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/lobotomist/32/57230_2.png) [@lobotomist](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/lobotomist)\
**Post date:** [August 9, 2019, 5:52am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/dashboard-proposal-time-spent-by-span-type/194359/3 "2019-08-09T05:52:09Z")

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For example:

 ![01%20PM](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/0/c/0c4dddeb23c2555be08ee6fc5711cfc39b3d5427.png)  
 ![47%20PM](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/9/1/917e674a1c69f298343f3db004733ddd14c6d031.png)

Right now we can see exactly what average time app spending for golang and we can draw some conclusions about the effectiveness of algorithms, etc...  
Percentages are good when we want to compare response time consumption: database vs app vs cache vs external call.

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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:** [August 30, 2019, 1:52am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/dashboard-proposal-time-spent-by-span-type/194359/4 "2019-08-30T01:52:14Z")

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