# How to integrate user-specified Kibana fields with my data fields

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-integrate-user-specified-kibana-fields-with-my-data-fields/326684
**Category:** Kibana
**Created:** [February 28, 2023, 2:03pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-integrate-user-specified-kibana-fields-with-my-data-fields/326684 "2023-02-28T14:03:38Z")
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### Author: ![gyannea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/71e660/32.png) [@gyannea](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/gyannea)
#### Post date: [February 28, 2023, 2:03pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-integrate-user-specified-kibana-fields-with-my-data-fields/326684/1 "2023-02-28T14:03:38Z")

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Here is a basic case I am trying to solve. The data provides events that indicate how long a device lost cellular connectivity. I can use Kibana to get the total amount of downtime. However, the downtime is in seconds and the total was calculated over a Kibana-specified time interval, say year to date.

I would like to display in a histogram the number of events versus the length of the downtime which I can do. But what is displayed is in seconds. How can I get Kibana to display the downtime values in minutes or hours? Something more digestible to the reader.

I would also like to display a plot which would give the total downtime/total time per device. I can do the total downtime per device, but the total time is given by the user's selection of the time range. It is not in my data.

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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 28, 2023, 2:04pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-integrate-user-specified-kibana-fields-with-my-data-fields/326684/2 "2023-03-28T14:04:29Z")

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