# German Number Format in Kibana

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/german-number-format-in-kibana/39205>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [January 14, 2016, 8:59am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/german-number-format-in-kibana/39205 "2016-01-14T08:59:10Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 7\
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**Author:** ![kaib](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f14d63/32.png) [@kaib](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/kaib)\
**Post date:** [January 14, 2016, 8:59am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/german-number-format-in-kibana/39205/1 "2016-01-14T08:59:10Z")

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Hi Kibana Folks,

is there currently a way to change the englisch number format to a german one?  
Bsp: Eng: 1,000.00 -\> Ger: 1.000,0 ??

best regards,  
kai

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [January 14, 2016, 9:04am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/german-number-format-in-kibana/39205/2 "2016-01-14T09:04:25Z")

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Yep, if you edit the field under index settings you can define your own format.

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**Author:** ![kaib](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f14d63/32.png) [@kaib](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/kaib)\
**Post date:** [January 14, 2016, 9:54am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/german-number-format-in-kibana/39205/3 "2016-01-14T09:54:35Z")

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no that doest seem to work,  
when i change the format from 0,0.[000] to the desired 0.0,[000] the 1,000 changes to 1,000.00 and not the desired 1.000,00 (see the changed , and . )

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**Author:** ![stormpython](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/stormpython/32/7190_2.png) [@stormpython](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/stormpython)\
**Post date:** [January 15, 2016, 5:25pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/german-number-format-in-kibana/39205/4 "2016-01-15T17:25:24Z")

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kaib

Kibana uses Numeral.js for formatting numbers. There is an open issue here: [https://github.com/adamwdraper/Numeral-js/issues/139](https://github.com/adamwdraper/Numeral-js/issues/139), for incorrect German number representation which is still open.

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**Author:** ![kaib](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f14d63/32.png) [@kaib](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/kaib)\
**Post date:** [January 19, 2016, 9:24am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/german-number-format-in-kibana/39205/5 "2016-01-19T09:24:14Z")

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thanks for the reply, but my main problem is, that i cannot set the language for Numeral.js in Kibana, except for direct in the code. But the problem is, that i need to do that after every release. So it yould be cool if the language selection option would be exposed in the kibana settings

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**Author:** ![mrguzzi](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/mrguzzi/32/15179_2.png) [@mrguzzi](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/mrguzzi)\
**Post date:** [February 3, 2017, 10:06am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/german-number-format-in-kibana/39205/6 "2017-02-03T10:06:03Z")

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Any solution yet?  
Bye

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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, 1:33pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/german-number-format-in-kibana/39205/7 "2017-07-06T13:33:16Z")

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