# Number formatting in Y axis

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/number-formatting-in-y-axis/1793>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [June 3, 2015, 3:56am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/number-formatting-in-y-axis/1793 "2015-06-03T03:56:11Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![anoban](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/anoban/32/3466_2.png) [@anoban](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/anoban)\
**Post date:** [June 3, 2015, 3:56am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/number-formatting-in-y-axis/1793/1 "2015-06-03T03:56:11Z")

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We need a feature to force a certain amount of decimal places on the Y axis.

ie I have a value that hovers between 150.2134 and 150.2145. Kibana shows 150.2 ... not really useful 😄  
I'd rather have a big 150. shown somewhere, and then the levels as 212, 213, 214, 215

I although have a value (on a different graph) that hovers around 18900 +- 20 ... Kibana shows 18.9k . once again, not great 😄  
In this case, a larger 189 displayed somewhere , and then a level each 10 would work great.

In both situation, even displaying the full values (maybe by entering a printf like syntax) would have been great.

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [June 3, 2015, 11:41pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/number-formatting-in-y-axis/1793/2 "2015-06-03T23:41:30Z")

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[https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/2492](https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/2492) is what you are after I think 🙂

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**Author:** ![anoban](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/anoban/32/3466_2.png) [@anoban](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/anoban)\
**Post date:** [June 4, 2015, 4:14am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/number-formatting-in-y-axis/1793/3 "2015-06-04T04:14:20Z")

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thanks @warkolm. I'm _now_ running the latest snapshot. Lots of good things in it. 👍

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**Author:** ![anoban](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/anoban/32/3466_2.png) [@anoban](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/anoban)\
**Post date:** [June 25, 2015, 1:35am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/number-formatting-in-y-axis/1793/4 "2015-06-25T01:35:54Z")

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I've noticed that sometimes the Y axis formatting misbehaves ...

 ![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/2X/3/3c21b023738a59e80b9bea31f7609958073491e6.png)

![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/2X/1/1a7b153e99243a0f7447bde4cf865cc33a87095d.png)

When the data tracked moves more, then the axis labelling "fixes" itself.

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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:** [July 6, 2017, 2:17pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/number-formatting-in-y-axis/1793/5 "2017-07-06T14:17:32Z")

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