# Kibana is unable to sort on some numbers

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-is-unable-to-sort-on-some-numbers/122035>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [March 1, 2018, 10:43am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-is-unable-to-sort-on-some-numbers/122035 "2018-03-01T10:43:47Z")\
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**Author:** ![ujjain](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/ujjain/32/27378_2.png) [@ujjain](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ujjain)\
**Post date:** [March 1, 2018, 10:43am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-is-unable-to-sort-on-some-numbers/122035/1 "2018-03-01T10:43:47Z")

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We're implementing Metricbeat, but it seems that we're able to sort on some fields and not on some other fields.

 ![](https://i.imgur.com/upvsqQj.png)

![](https://i.imgur.com/a81bGiIl.png)Mapping:

```
"filesystem": {
    "properties": {
        "available": {
            "type": "long"
        },
        "device_name": {
            "ignore_above": 1024,
            "type": "keyword"
        },
        "files": {
            "type": "long"
        },
        "free": {
            "type": "long"
        },
        "free_files": {
            "type": "long"
        },
        "mount_point": {
            "ignore_above": 1024,
            "type": "keyword"
        },
        "total": {
            "type": "long"
        },
        "used": {
            "properties": {
                "bytes": {
                    "type": "long"
                },
                "pct": {
                    "scaling_factor": 1000.0,
                    "type": "scaled_float"
                }
            }
        }
    }
},

```

What could explain we cannot sort on system.filesystem.used.pct?

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**Author:** ![Tommm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f6c823/32.png) [@Tommm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Tommm)\
**Post date:** [March 7, 2018, 2:32pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-is-unable-to-sort-on-some-numbers/122035/2 "2018-03-07T14:32:28Z")

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Hi, property _system.filesystem.used.pct_ is the only property of type "scaled\_float". Maybe there is some bug.  
Just note - seems you're using fairly old Kibana version (around 4.something?), currently there is 6.2.

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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:** [April 4, 2018, 2:33pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-is-unable-to-sort-on-some-numbers/122035/3 "2018-04-04T14:33:05Z")

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