# Template support or similar for numeric field formatters

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/template-support-or-similar-for-numeric-field-formatters/153533>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [October 23, 2018, 7:22am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/template-support-or-similar-for-numeric-field-formatters/153533 "2018-10-23T07:22:04Z")\
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**Author:** ![dss](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dss/32/33128_2.png) [@dss](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dss)\
**Post date:** [October 23, 2018, 7:22am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/template-support-or-similar-for-numeric-field-formatters/153533/1 "2018-10-23T07:22:04Z")

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[https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/current/field-formatters-numeric.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/current/field-formatters-numeric.html)

Elastic Stack 6.3.2

I've come to like the index templates functionality in Elasticsearch. One hangup I have with exploring the data in Kibana is needing to set numeric field formatters for number fields such that some fields carrying longer integers aren't rendered using the default _numeral.js_ format that adds commas into the number at thousands separators (for things like src/dest port numbers, longer numeric IDs, etc.). I half expected a feature in Kibana where field properties could be specified to include formatters via a template that could be loaded or similar. I've grown used to the feature existing before I come up with it. 🙂

Is there a way to specify field formatters like this outside of editing in browser - anything that would be akin to the index template support in ES? Ideally would work similar to ES also in allowing a field match on any index, so that cases where a deployment uses Elastic Common Schema or another standard to normalize field naming could benefit from a simple config change that could apply to all indexes would be possible. Or is this a feature to be requested at this point?

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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:** [October 24, 2018, 12:58pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/template-support-or-similar-for-numeric-field-formatters/153533/2 "2018-10-24T12:58:55Z")

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Right now, the only way to do it in Kibana is to edit them in the Management page in the browser.

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**Author:** ![dss](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dss/32/33128_2.png) [@dss](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dss)\
**Post date:** [October 30, 2018, 4:59am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/template-support-or-similar-for-numeric-field-formatters/153533/3 "2018-10-30T04:59:44Z")

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Submitted [https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/24559](https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/24559) 👍

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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 27, 2018, 4:59am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/template-support-or-similar-for-numeric-field-formatters/153533/4 "2018-11-27T04:59:48Z")

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