# Display latest values in metric vis

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/display-latest-values-in-metric-vis/152188>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [October 12, 2018, 8:24am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/display-latest-values-in-metric-vis/152188 "2018-10-12T08:24:52Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![djfab](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9de0a6/32.png) [@djfab](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/djfab)\
**Post date:** [October 12, 2018, 8:24am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/display-latest-values-in-metric-vis/152188/1 "2018-10-12T08:24:52Z")

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Trying to display the latest values of metricbeat into the metric viz.

However, Top Hit displays the max value in the series.

 ![viz](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/0/4/04f9438598d9fb7b101c656f674c619caac0c76b.png)

The time series:

 ![timeseries](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/f/1f380d2d2e33432e0b55d38dc16579e14a38b128.png)

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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:** [October 15, 2018, 11:38pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/display-latest-values-in-metric-vis/152188/2 "2018-10-15T23:38:08Z")

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You have the right idea, it's really close. The gotcha is to sort on the date field instead of system.cpu.system.pct.

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**Author:** ![djfab](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9de0a6/32.png) [@djfab](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/djfab)\
**Post date:** [October 26, 2018, 9:30pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/display-latest-values-in-metric-vis/152188/3 "2018-10-26T21:30:44Z")

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I got it working. Since I'm capturing fields from a variety of fields, it required the "aggregate" filter.

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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:** [November 23, 2018, 9:30pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/display-latest-values-in-metric-vis/152188/4 "2018-11-23T21:30:45Z")

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