# How to graph percentiles each starting from y=0

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-graph-percentiles-each-starting-from-y-0/74754>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [February 11, 2017, 12:36pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-graph-percentiles-each-starting-from-y-0/74754 "2017-02-11T12:36:49Z")\
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**Author:** ![John16](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ea666f/32.png) [@John16](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/John16)\
**Post date:** [February 11, 2017, 12:36pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-graph-percentiles-each-starting-from-y-0/74754/1 "2017-02-11T12:36:49Z")

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Hello,

I am trying to graph percentiles of request duration (p=50 and p=99).  
(Y-Axis -\> Percentiles).

Right now it plots 99% percentile on top of 50% (so if 50% is 10ms and 99% is 50ms, then there will be two areas: 0\<y\<10 for 50% and 10\<y\<60 for 99%).

Is it possible to graph percentiles so that each area starts from y=0: 0\<y\<10 for 50% and 0\<y\<50 for 99%? So that each greater percentile "includes" all smaller?

Thanks.

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**Author:** ![John16](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ea666f/32.png) [@John16](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/John16)\
**Post date:** [February 12, 2017, 11:51am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-graph-percentiles-each-starting-from-y-0/74754/2 "2017-02-12T11:51:16Z")

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Okay, I found this is the exact behaviour when I draw "Line Chart" instead of "Vertical Bar Chart".  
The former displays values relative to y=0, the latter relative to previous value.

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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:** [March 12, 2017, 11:51am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-graph-percentiles-each-starting-from-y-0/74754/3 "2017-03-12T11:51:53Z")

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