# How to visualize Metricbeat Prometheus histograms
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-visualize-metricbeat-prometheus-histograms/232074
**Category:** Kibana
**Created:** [May 11, 2020, 4:25pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-visualize-metricbeat-prometheus-histograms/232074 "2020-05-11T16:25:40Z")
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### Author:  [@iulian7](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/iulian7)
#### Post date: [May 11, 2020, 4:25pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-visualize-metricbeat-prometheus-histograms/232074/1 "2020-05-11T16:25:41Z")
Hello,
Elastic offers a Prometheus Metricbeat ([https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/metricbeat/current/metricbeat-module-prometheus.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/metricbeat/current/metricbeat-module-prometheus.html)) module that scrapes a Prometheus `/metrics` endpoint and pushes the metrics to an Elastic Cloud endpoint. This is all working fine.
How is it possible to visualise Prometheus histograms in Kibana? There is a Prometheus scraping example ([https://github.com/elastic/examples/tree/master/scraping-prometheus-k8s-with-metricbeat](https://github.com/elastic/examples/tree/master/scraping-prometheus-k8s-with-metricbeat)) but this only shows how to visualise a `count` metric.
Prometheus histograms are already bucketed using a `le` (less than or equal to) field. Each bucket contains a count of events that are "less than or equal to" that bucket. The last bucket is always `+Inf` which will always contain all counts (as everything is "less than or equal to" infinity).
Some example documents that arrive from the Prometheus metricbeat:
```
{
"_index": "metricbeat-7.6.2-2020.05.10-000001",
"_type": "_doc",
"_version": 1,
"_score": null,
"_source": {
"prometheus": {
"labels": {
"le": "0.064"
},
"metrics": {
"latency1_seconds_bucket": 17
}
}
}
}
{
"_index": "metricbeat-7.6.2-2020.05.10-000001",
"_type": "_doc",
"_version": 1,
"_score": null,
"_source": {
"prometheus": {
"labels": {
"le": "0.128"
},
"metrics": {
"latency1_seconds_bucket": 23
}
}
}
}
```
The above documents mean 17 events took \<= 0.064 seconds and 23 events took \<= 0.128 seconds. This means 6 events took between 0.064 and 0.128 seconds.
How is it possible to plot something like a percentile of latencies out of this data? I couldn't find any documentation about this in the Metricbeat examples/docs.
Thank you,
Iulian
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### Author:  [@wylie](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/wylie)
#### Post date: [May 11, 2020, 4:38pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-visualize-metricbeat-prometheus-histograms/232074/2 "2020-05-11T16:38:24Z")
This will be supported in 7.7.0 when it releases soon, this is the PR that introduces it:
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [June 8, 2020, 4:38pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-visualize-metricbeat-prometheus-histograms/232074/3 "2020-06-08T16:38:24Z")
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