# Display units of measurement in kibana

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/display-units-of-measurement-in-kibana/93533>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [July 18, 2017, 9:03am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/display-units-of-measurement-in-kibana/93533 "2017-07-18T09:03:23Z")\
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**Author:** ![AitZaid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@AitZaid](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/AitZaid)\
**Post date:** [July 18, 2017, 9:03am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/display-units-of-measurement-in-kibana/93533/1 "2017-07-18T09:03:24Z")

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Hi, I'm facing a small issue with kibana:  
I'm trying to display the average response time of our services, but  
the thing is the units of measurement is not displayed in my graph, in  
this case it is supposed to be in ms (milliseconds).  
I'm using kibana 4.1 by the way.  
So it is possible to show the unit?  
here is the picture:  
 ![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/6/16596f00cb3b11e1979ce5480f78bf183af715f7.png)

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**Author:** ![BigFunger](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/bigfunger/32/7323_2.png) [@BigFunger](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/BigFunger)\
**Post date:** [July 18, 2017, 5:00pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/display-units-of-measurement-in-kibana/93533/2 "2017-07-18T17:00:52Z")

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This is a known limitation of Kibana. There is an outstanding issue [here.](https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/8984)

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**Author:** ![AitZaid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@AitZaid](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/AitZaid)\
**Post date:** [July 19, 2017, 1:55pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/display-units-of-measurement-in-kibana/93533/3 "2017-07-19T13:55:00Z")

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thank you for your answer,  
but is there a way to be sure that is 387.232 ms ?  
because, I don't know what this number really represent .

and do you know if in kibana 5 this issue has been handled and we can display units in graphs and various panel ?  
thank you .

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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 16, 2017, 1:55pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/display-units-of-measurement-in-kibana/93533/4 "2017-08-16T13:55:05Z")

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