# Using median (percetiles 50) in timelion

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/using-median-percetiles-50-in-timelion/64915>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Tags:** timelion\
**Created:** [November 3, 2016, 5:00pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/using-median-percetiles-50-in-timelion/64915 "2016-11-03T17:00:52Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![acs](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/acs/32/5158_2.png) [@acs](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/acs)\
**Post date:** [November 3, 2016, 5:00pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/using-median-percetiles-50-in-timelion/64915/1 "2016-11-03T17:00:53Z")

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For getting the metric average time series in timelion, it is pretty easy:

`.es(metric='avg:time_to_close_days')`

which is equivalent to:

```
 "aggs": {
        "1": {
          "avg": {
            "field": "time_to_close_days"
          }
        }
      }

```

but howto get the median of a metric, which must be equivalent to:

```
 "aggs": {
        "1": {
          "percentiles": {
            "field": "time_to_close_days",
            "percents": [
              50
            ],
            "keyed": false
          }
        }
      }
```

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**Author:** ![acs](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/acs/32/5158_2.png) [@acs](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/acs)\
**Post date:** [November 3, 2016, 5:15pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/using-median-percetiles-50-in-timelion/64915/2 "2016-11-03T17:15:59Z")

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> <https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/8953>

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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, 1:34pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/using-median-percetiles-50-in-timelion/64915/3 "2017-07-06T13:34:44Z")

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