# Formatting Timelion values as percentage **URL:** \ **Category:** Kibana\ **Tags:** timelion\ **Created:** [February 22, 2017, 3:39pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/formatting-timelion-values-as-percentage/76074 "2017-02-22T15:39:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Cylindric](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/cylindric/32/5660_2.png) [@Cylindric](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Cylindric)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2017, 3:39pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/formatting-timelion-values-as-percentage/76074/1 "2017-02-22T15:39:10Z")
I have a Timelion chart that is showing MetricBeat data, so I would like the `system.cpu.user.pct` for example, to be formatted as a percentage, not a 0-1 value. ![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/2X/b/b7802d4d0358b8492687db909172e60ca3f26f22.png) Is there any way to format values in Timelion? The documentation is _very_ sparse. ``` (.es(index='metricbeat-*',q='metricset.name:cpu',metric='avg:system.cpu.system.pct',offset='-28d'), .es(index='metricbeat-*',q='metricset.name:cpu',metric='avg:system.cpu.user.pct',offset='-28d')).sum().movingaverage(window=2).label('-4w').color(#ffcfb0), (.es(index='metricbeat-*',q='metricset.name:cpu',metric='avg:system.cpu.system.pct',offset='-21d'), .es(index='metricbeat-*',q='metricset.name:cpu',metric='avg:system.cpu.user.pct',offset='-21d')).sum().movingaverage(window=2).label('-3w').color(#ffc5a0), (.es(index='metricbeat-*',q='metricset.name:cpu',metric='avg:system.cpu.system.pct',offset='-14d'), .es(index='metricbeat-*',q='metricset.name:cpu',metric='avg:system.cpu.user.pct',offset='-14d')).sum().movingaverage(window=2).label('-2w').color(#ffbb90), (.es(index='metricbeat-*',q='metricset.name:cpu',metric='avg:system.cpu.system.pct',offset='-7d'), .es(index='metricbeat-*',q='metricset.name:cpu',metric='avg:system.cpu.user.pct',offset='-7d')).sum().movingaverage(window=2).label('-1w').color(#ffb180), (.es(index='metricbeat-*',q='metricset.name:cpu',metric='avg:system.cpu.system.pct'), .es(index='metricbeat-*',q='metricset.name:cpu',metric='avg:system.cpu.user.pct',offset='-7d')).sum().label('Today').movingaverage(window=2).color(#ff2c0f), ``` ---
**Author:** ![lukas](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/lukas/32/6812_2.png) [@lukas](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/lukas)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2017, 8:27pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/formatting-timelion-values-as-percentage/76074/2 "2017-02-22T20:27:56Z")
I don't think this is currently possible. I've added an enhancement request for this feature here: [https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/10518](https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/10518) ---
**Author:** ![Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/christian_dahlqvist/32/4617_2.png) [@Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Christian_Dahlqvist)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2017, 8:49pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/formatting-timelion-values-as-percentage/76074/3 "2017-02-22T20:49:02Z")
Can you not use the `multiply` function to multiply all data points by a factor of 100.0 to get the data points in the right range? ---
**Author:** ![lukas](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/lukas/32/6812_2.png) [@lukas](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/lukas)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2017, 8:53pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/formatting-timelion-values-as-percentage/76074/4 "2017-02-22T20:53:17Z")
> Can you not use the multiply function to multiply all data points by a factor of 100.0 to get the data points in the right range? Good call. You could do something like this: `.multiply(100).yaxis(units="custom::%")` ---
**Author:** ![Cylindric](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/cylindric/32/5660_2.png) [@Cylindric](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Cylindric)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2017, 9:13am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/formatting-timelion-values-as-percentage/76074/5 "2017-02-23T09:13:16Z")
Good idea, I'll give that a shot. Those Timelion scripts get pretty long don't they, for something we have a one-line URL-style editor for 🙂 At least you can paste in a command that has newlines in it, so I can store them elsewhere. Although that doesn't work in the visualisation screen - that rejects anything with new-lines in it. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2017, 9:13am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/formatting-timelion-values-as-percentage/76074/6 "2017-03-23T09:13:37Z")
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