# Search Percentage \>=

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/search-percentage/104714>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [October 20, 2017, 2:06pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/search-percentage/104714 "2017-10-20T14:06:24Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![mike.harvey](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/mike.harvey/32/23238_2.png) [@mike.harvey](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/mike.harvey)\
**Post date:** [October 20, 2017, 2:06pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/search-percentage/104714/1 "2017-10-20T14:06:25Z")

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I have a metric coming from metricbeat which is **system.memory.actual.used.pct** which is formatted as a percentage. I simply want to filter for records over 90%. I have searcht the docs and see nothing about filtering % fields. What I am attemptiing to use in the search is:  
`system.memory.actual.used.pct: (>50 AND <=100)`

Any idea of the correct search syntax for percentage fields? Thx,

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**Author:** ![timroes](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/timroes/32/19712_2.png) [@timroes](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/timroes)\
**Post date:** [October 23, 2017, 2:14pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/search-percentage/104714/2 "2017-10-23T14:14:33Z")

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Hi Mike,

that corresponding field is a regular numeric field, holding decimal values for percentages. So a value of 50% would actually be 0.5 in that field.

You can filter for that as follows:

```auto
system.memory.actual.used.pct:(>0.5 AND <=1.0)

```

or

```auto
system.memory.actual.used.pct:{0.5 TO 1.0]

```

Since `{` and `}` are exclusive bounds, and `[` and `]` are inclusive bounds.

Also notice, that you should NOT have a space after your colon.

Hope that could help solving your issue?

Cheers,  
Tim

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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:** [November 20, 2017, 2:14pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/search-percentage/104714/3 "2017-11-20T14:14:36Z")

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