# Show duration of distributed trace in dashboard

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/show-duration-of-distributed-trace-in-dashboard/326281>\
**Category:** APM\
**Tags:** dotnet\
**Created:** [February 23, 2023, 8:29am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/show-duration-of-distributed-trace-in-dashboard/326281 "2023-02-23T08:29:41Z")\
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**Author:** ![Rick\_V](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/rick_v/32/131683_2.png) [@Rick\_V](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Rick_V)\
**Post date:** [February 23, 2023, 8:29am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/show-duration-of-distributed-trace-in-dashboard/326281/1 "2023-02-23T08:29:41Z")

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Hi,

I want to show the average duration of a distributed transaction in a dashboard, I would want to sum the duration of the different traces that are held together by the trace id, and then take the average of all distributed transactions and show it in an visualization, how can I achieve this?

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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:** [March 16, 2023, 4:29am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/show-duration-of-distributed-trace-in-dashboard/326281/2 "2023-03-16T04:29:46Z")

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