# How to Display Current Value of Metric

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-display-current-value-of-metric/63794>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [October 24, 2016, 7:27pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-display-current-value-of-metric/63794 "2016-10-24T19:27:07Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Maxwell\_Flanders](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Maxwell\_Flanders](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Maxwell_Flanders)\
**Post date:** [October 24, 2016, 7:27pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-display-current-value-of-metric/63794/1 "2016-10-24T19:27:07Z")

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I'm trying to build visualizations to monitor a bunch of metrics on kafka. When looking at the options for aggregation in creating a visualization, there are things like max, min, avg, but is there an option for "latest"?? I'd like to show the CURRENT value of a metric at the time of loading a dashboard, which i think would be best represented by the most recent value of the metric.

is there a way to accomplish this??

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**Author:** ![cjcenizal](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/cjcenizal/32/11216_2.png) [@cjcenizal](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/cjcenizal)\
**Post date:** [October 24, 2016, 11:39pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-display-current-value-of-metric/63794/2 "2016-10-24T23:39:27Z")

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Hi Maxwell,

We have a PR open which I believe will satisfy your requirement: [https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/7302](https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/7302).

Thanks,  
CJ

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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, 1:35pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-display-current-value-of-metric/63794/3 "2017-07-06T13:35:48Z")

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