# Kibana 7.3 log scale is capped at 0.1 and does not display smaller numbers

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-7-3-log-scale-is-capped-at-0-1-and-does-not-display-smaller-numbers/199037>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [September 11, 2019, 8:08am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-7-3-log-scale-is-capped-at-0-1-and-does-not-display-smaller-numbers/199037 "2019-09-11T08:08:35Z")\
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**Author:** ![Alex-St](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/alex-st/32/53975_2.png) [@Alex-St](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Alex-St)\
**Post date:** [September 11, 2019, 8:08am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-7-3-log-scale-is-capped-at-0-1-and-does-not-display-smaller-numbers/199037/1 "2019-09-11T08:08:36Z")

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problem 1: when trying to display positive numbers like 1e-3 and lower on log scale on line plot, the minimum is capped as 0.1. Auto scale does not work well either. The only solution I found is to create a calculated field in kibana and artificially multiply fields value by some factor to bring them to "plottable" range.

problem 2: small floating point numbers (doubles) stored in elasticsearch are not displayed correctly in kibana. In kibana index pattern, I set number field formatting to '0.000e+1', and seems that it works for numbers that are \< 1e-7. However, 1.5e-6 are not displayed correctly and simply rounded to 0.

are these known issues?

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**Author:** ![rashmi](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/rashmi/32/16391_2.png) [@rashmi](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/rashmi)\
**Post date:** [September 11, 2019, 1:11pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-7-3-log-scale-is-capped-at-0-1-and-does-not-display-smaller-numbers/199037/2 "2019-09-11T13:11:00Z")

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@jbudz / @tylersmalley - are these known issues - can u please shed some light here?

Thanks  
Rashmi

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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:** [October 9, 2019, 1:11pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-7-3-log-scale-is-capped-at-0-1-and-does-not-display-smaller-numbers/199037/3 "2019-10-09T13:11:09Z")

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