# Displaying n-greatest values in a field

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/displaying-n-greatest-values-in-a-field/24459>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [June 26, 2015, 7:37pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/displaying-n-greatest-values-in-a-field/24459 "2015-06-26T19:37:55Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![Michael\_Chang](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/85f322/32.png) [@Michael\_Chang](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Michael_Chang)\
**Post date:** [June 26, 2015, 7:37pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/displaying-n-greatest-values-in-a-field/24459/1 "2015-06-26T19:37:55Z")

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Suppose my type has an integer field and a name field.

The Top N query is able to find the top N-highest values of the integer field, how do I link it back to the corresponding name field?

For example, I would want a histogram displaying the n-highest documents based on the integer field, but I'd also want to show the name field on the legend of the histogram

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**Author:** ![eperry](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/eperry/32/551_2.png) [@eperry](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/eperry)\
**Post date:** [June 26, 2015, 9:39pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/displaying-n-greatest-values-in-a-field/24459/2 "2015-06-26T21:39:52Z")

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Add another sub-split field? So you can see what it is.

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**Author:** ![Michael\_Chang](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/85f322/32.png) [@Michael\_Chang](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Michael_Chang)\
**Post date:** [June 26, 2015, 9:56pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/displaying-n-greatest-values-in-a-field/24459/3 "2015-06-26T21:56:18Z")

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Thanks for the response.

What is a sub-split? I'm using Kibana 3.0

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**Author:** ![tbragin](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/tbragin/32/45166_2.png) [@tbragin](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/tbragin)\
**Post date:** [June 27, 2015, 12:00am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/displaying-n-greatest-values-in-a-field/24459/4 "2015-06-27T00:00:27Z")

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I'm not sure you can easily do this in K3, but in K4 you can do it with something like this, as @eperry suggests.

 ![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/2X/8/8e4dd3c87dcfb1a8b1885e0b5c709046553b2e26.png)

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**Author:** ![eperry](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/eperry/32/551_2.png) [@eperry](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/eperry)\
**Post date:** [June 27, 2015, 12:32am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/displaying-n-greatest-values-in-a-field/24459/5 "2015-06-27T00:32:03Z")

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exactly 😄

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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:** [July 6, 2017, 2:17pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/displaying-n-greatest-values-in-a-field/24459/6 "2017-07-06T14:17:24Z")

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