# How to change memory usage unit

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-change-memory-usage-unit/180158>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** metricbeat\
**Created:** [May 8, 2019, 10:56am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-change-memory-usage-unit/180158 "2019-05-08T10:56:39Z")\
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**Author:** ![Kalyan\_MB](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/kalyan_mb/32/42974_2.png) [@Kalyan\_MB](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Kalyan_MB)\
**Post date:** [May 8, 2019, 10:56am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-change-memory-usage-unit/180158/1 "2019-05-08T10:56:39Z")

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Hi,

i have installed metric beat in few clients where i am running some load and integrated it to ELK stack, i can see the dashboard in kibana for the same.  
can any one help with how to change the unit of "Processes By Memory [Metricbeat System]" at present its in % i want it to be in MB or GB unit, thanks.

![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/6/6/665f773c3bb4f08ad2c32d6f759014287f908244.png)

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**Author:** ![Kalyan\_MB](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/kalyan_mb/32/42974_2.png) [@Kalyan\_MB](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Kalyan_MB)\
**Post date:** [May 9, 2019, 8:42am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-change-memory-usage-unit/180158/2 "2019-05-09T08:42:19Z")

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Closing this topic as i found the solution.

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/4/2/4260d78ea7b487635d36b3577fddd1cc49804cd8.png)

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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:** [May 9, 2019, 9:49am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-change-memory-usage-unit/180158/3 "2019-05-09T09:49:00Z")

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Can you share the details of what it was?

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**Author:** ![Kalyan\_MB](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/kalyan_mb/32/42974_2.png) [@Kalyan\_MB](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Kalyan_MB)\
**Post date:** [May 9, 2019, 10:40am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-change-memory-usage-unit/180158/4 "2019-05-09T10:40:28Z")

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you mean, what i have done ?

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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:** [May 9, 2019, 9:44pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-change-memory-usage-unit/180158/5 "2019-05-09T21:44:11Z")

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Yes, how did you get that solution.

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**Author:** ![Kalyan\_MB](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/kalyan_mb/32/42974_2.png) [@Kalyan\_MB](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Kalyan_MB)\
**Post date:** [May 10, 2019, 5:09am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-change-memory-usage-unit/180158/6 "2019-05-10T05:09:08Z")

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i did the below changes,

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/5/6/564c1ae37cff844568398933f8eb2b30662db9c7.png)

1. in the metricbeat dashboard clicked on edit button.
2. Selected the visualisation that i want to edit.  
3.under settings tab, clicked on edit visualisation.  
4.choose below order by option  
 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/2/6/262ba121dd1ce14074fe83a7e75a9e66a87868d7.png)

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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:** [June 7, 2019, 5:09am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-change-memory-usage-unit/180158/7 "2019-06-07T05:09:22Z")

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