# Which visualization should i choose for displaying Host.version

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/which-visualization-should-i-choose-for-displaying-host-version/335927>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** metricbeat\
**Created:** [June 14, 2023, 4:13am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/which-visualization-should-i-choose-for-displaying-host-version/335927 "2023-06-14T04:13:09Z")\
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**Author:** ![vijay\_kaali](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/vijay_kaali/32/59998_2.png) [@vijay\_kaali](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/vijay_kaali)\
**Post date:** [June 14, 2023, 4:13am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/which-visualization-should-i-choose-for-displaying-host-version/335927/1 "2023-06-14T04:13:09Z")

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i am want to display host confirmation i dashboard  
like cpu count, total memory , host.os.version . which visualisation should i choose . as all require aggregate function but . these are not .  
and more over for my rhel server i dont see host.os.build does not exist .

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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 14, 2023, 4:17am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/which-visualization-should-i-choose-for-displaying-host-version/335927/2 "2023-06-14T04:17:43Z")

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Have you seen [System module | Metricbeat Reference [8.8] | Elastic](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/metricbeat/current/metricbeat-module-system.html#_dashboard_42)?

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**Author:** ![vijay\_kaali](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/vijay_kaali/32/59998_2.png) [@vijay\_kaali](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/vijay_kaali)\
**Post date:** [June 14, 2023, 7:01am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/which-visualization-should-i-choose-for-displaying-host-version/335927/3 "2023-06-14T07:01:53Z")

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thanks for the reply . i enabled system module and collecting add\_host\_metadata.  
question is,

1. which visualization to be used to display server version / timezone . as those are not visualization
2. why my host.os.build metric

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**Author:** ![vijay\_kaali](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/vijay_kaali/32/59998_2.png) [@vijay\_kaali](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/vijay_kaali)\
**Post date:** [June 19, 2023, 3:34pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/which-visualization-should-i-choose-for-displaying-host-version/335927/4 "2023-06-19T15:34:43Z")

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cpu count, total memory , host.os.version these are more or less static in nature . which graph/datatable to use without aggregation

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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 19, 2023, 10:55pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/which-visualization-should-i-choose-for-displaying-host-version/335927/5 "2023-06-19T22:55:41Z")

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Maybe try a table.

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**Author:** ![vijay\_kaali](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/vijay_kaali/32/59998_2.png) [@vijay\_kaali](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/vijay_kaali)\
**Post date:** [June 20, 2023, 6:54am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/which-visualization-should-i-choose-for-displaying-host-version/335927/6 "2023-06-20T06:54:27Z")

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currently i am doing the group by and max of in table .  
just want to know any other visualization to display just show non null last value of the field for example for number of  
cpu cores

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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 20, 2023, 8:46am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/which-visualization-should-i-choose-for-displaying-host-version/335927/7 "2023-06-20T08:46:10Z")

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You can use a terms agg on the host field and then a top hits one to get the latest value.

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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 18, 2023, 10:47am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/which-visualization-should-i-choose-for-displaying-host-version/335927/8 "2023-07-18T10:47:08Z")

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