# How to show a truncated field value in Kibana Visualization?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-show-a-truncated-field-value-in-kibana-visualization/121828>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [February 28, 2018, 10:40am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-show-a-truncated-field-value-in-kibana-visualization/121828 "2018-02-28T10:40:33Z")\
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**Author:** ![vinay.bhardwaj](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/c67d28/32.png) [@vinay.bhardwaj](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/vinay.bhardwaj)\
**Post date:** [February 28, 2018, 10:40am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-show-a-truncated-field-value-in-kibana-visualization/121828/1 "2018-02-28T10:40:33Z")

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How can I show a sub string of a field value in Kibana Visualization axis label?

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**Author:** ![seema](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7cd45c/32.png) [@seema](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/seema)\
**Post date:** [February 28, 2018, 10:45am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-show-a-truncated-field-value-in-kibana-visualization/121828/2 "2018-02-28T10:45:19Z")

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Hi Vinay,

For Bar/Area chart there is another tab along with Data "Metrics & Axes" there you can specify truncate word limit.

Thanks,  
Seema

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**Author:** ![vinay.bhardwaj](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/c67d28/32.png) [@vinay.bhardwaj](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/vinay.bhardwaj)\
**Post date:** [February 28, 2018, 10:53am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-show-a-truncated-field-value-in-kibana-visualization/121828/3 "2018-02-28T10:53:19Z")

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Hi Seema,

That limits the no of characters I want to show from the start. But how to show a part of the complete string which may not be starting from 0th character of actual field value?

Thanks

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**Author:** ![seema](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7cd45c/32.png) [@seema](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/seema)\
**Post date:** [February 28, 2018, 10:54am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-show-a-truncated-field-value-in-kibana-visualization/121828/4 "2018-02-28T10:54:46Z")

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for that change you need to edit the file from where axis is populating.

Thanks,  
Seema

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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, 2018, 10:54am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-show-a-truncated-field-value-in-kibana-visualization/121828/5 "2018-03-28T10:54:49Z")

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