# Formatting scripted field values

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/formatting-scripted-field-values/702>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [May 14, 2015, 5:17pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/formatting-scripted-field-values/702 "2015-05-14T17:17:47Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![spalger](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/spalger/32/14092_2.png) [@spalger](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/spalger)\
**Post date:** [May 14, 2015, 5:17pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/formatting-scripted-field-values/702/1 "2015-05-14T17:17:47Z")

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Continuing the discussion from [Kibana 4 transfer rate line chart](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-4-transfer-rate-line-chart/680):

> [@Kibana 4 transfer rate line chart](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-4-transfer-rate-line-chart/680/1):
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> The second part to is that Ideally I'd like the y-axis to display in b/s , kb/s, mb/s etc. Scripted fields only seem to support Bytes.

In the nightly builds and in the upcoming 4.1 release of Kibana you can configure formating per field. This includes scripted fields.

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**Author:** ![Pieter\_Agenbag](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/pieter_agenbag/32/4562_2.png) [@Pieter\_Agenbag](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Pieter_Agenbag)\
**Post date:** [May 19, 2015, 9:05am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/formatting-scripted-field-values/702/2 "2015-05-19T09:05:10Z")

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Thank you - I'm working on the 4.1 snapshots and although you can select from predefined formats such as "BYTES" I could not find a way to use completely custom formats. Or maybe I just missed it - will go dig deeper.

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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, 2:19pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/formatting-scripted-field-values/702/3 "2017-07-06T14:19:20Z")

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Closed on July 6, 2017, 2:19pm UTC


