# Display latest value in a „Metric“

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/display-latest-value-in-a-metric/114930
**Category:** Kibana
**Created:** [January 10, 2018, 6:27pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/display-latest-value-in-a-metric/114930 "2018-01-10T18:27:15Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author: ![Hannah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/f04885/32.png) [@Hannah](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Hannah)
#### Post date: [January 10, 2018, 6:27pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/display-latest-value-in-a-metric/114930/1 "2018-01-10T18:27:15Z")

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Hi there,

I would like to display the latest value of a given index in a dashboard with a „Metric“. This should happen in a aws instance of Kibana. Is it possible to do this? The aggregation of the metric inside „Metric“ only shows me stuff like „Count“, „Average“ or „Sum“ but not „Latest“. I wonder if this is possible with the Metric visualisation.

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### Author: ![Marius\_Dragomir](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/marius_dragomir/32/42087_2.png) [@Marius\_Dragomir](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Marius_Dragomir)
#### Post date: [January 10, 2018, 6:33pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/display-latest-value-in-a-metric/114930/2 "2018-01-10T18:33:11Z")

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I just wrote this 1 minute ago in another topic. Seems to be the popular question of the day:

```auto
Metric Aggregation: Top Hit
Field: your_field
Aggregate with: concatenate
Size: 1
Sort on: @timestamp
Order: Descending

```

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### Author: ![Hannah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/f04885/32.png) [@Hannah](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Hannah)
#### Post date: [January 10, 2018, 7:41pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/display-latest-value-in-a-metric/114930/3 "2018-01-10T19:41:44Z")

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Hi Marius, thank you for the promptly answer. That's exactly what I was looking for.

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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: [February 7, 2018, 7:42pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/display-latest-value-in-a-metric/114930/4 "2018-02-07T19:42:01Z")

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