# Kibana dashboard - how to change the syslog message format

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-dashboard-how-to-change-the-syslog-message-format/228123>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [April 15, 2020, 12:38pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-dashboard-how-to-change-the-syslog-message-format/228123 "2020-04-15T12:38:32Z")\
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**Author:** ![Rico](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7c8e57/32.png) [@Rico](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Rico)\
**Post date:** [April 15, 2020, 12:38pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-dashboard-how-to-change-the-syslog-message-format/228123/1 "2020-04-15T12:38:32Z")

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Hello everybody,

a customer is using the Kibana Dashboard and determined that port numbers has a "," (e.g. "29,842") in all syslog messages.

Is it possible to change the format so it is displaying "29842" instead as port number and what must be done to get this?

I am not familiar with the Kibana Dashboard and really thankful for every hint.

Thanka a lot!

Rico

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**Author:** ![Marius\_Dragomir](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/marius_dragomir/32/42087_2.png) [@Marius\_Dragomir](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Marius_Dragomir)\
**Post date:** [April 15, 2020, 1:30pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-dashboard-how-to-change-the-syslog-message-format/228123/2 "2020-04-15T13:30:38Z")

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Hello,

Yes, you can use this with the field formatting option in Kibana.  
You can see here how to get to the option: [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/current/managing-fields.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/current/managing-fields.html)  
Then you set the format to "Number" and in the Numeral.js pattern you change it to: `00.[000]`

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**Author:** ![Rico](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7c8e57/32.png) [@Rico](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Rico)\
**Post date:** [April 22, 2020, 11:43am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-dashboard-how-to-change-the-syslog-message-format/228123/3 "2020-04-22T11:43:15Z")

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Hi Marius,

thanks for the fast reply!

The customer seems not to the necessary permissions to change the format ☹

Do you have any idea what he can still try?

Thanks a lot!

Bye  
Rico

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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:** [May 20, 2020, 11:43am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-dashboard-how-to-change-the-syslog-message-format/228123/4 "2020-05-20T11:43:22Z")

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