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title: View field statistics
description: Explore the fields in your data with the Field statistics view in Discover and answer such questions as: What does the latency look like when one of the...
url: https://docs-v3-preview.elastic.dev/elastic/docs-content/pull/3892/explore-analyze/discover/show-field-statistics
products:
  - Kibana
---

# View field statistics
Explore the fields in your data with the **Field statistics** view in **Discover** and answer such questions as:
- What does the latency look like when one of the containers is down on a Sunday?
- Is the field type and format in the data view appropriate for the data and its cardinality?

<note>
  Field statistics aren't available when **Discover** is in ES|QL mode.
</note>

This example explores the fields in the [sample web logs data](/elastic/docs-content/pull/3892/explore-analyze#gs-get-data-into-kibana), or you can use your own data.
1. Go to **Discover**.
2. Expand the data view dropdown, and select **Kibana Sample Data Logs**.
3. If you don’t see any results, expand the time range, for example, to **Last 7 days**.
4. Click **Field statistics**.
   The table summarizes how many documents in the sample contain each field for the selected time period the number of distinct values, and the distribution.
   ![Field statistics view in Discover showing a summary of document data.](https://docs-v3-preview.elastic.dev/elastic/docs-content/pull/3892/explore-analyze/images/kibana-field-statistics-view.png)
5. Expand the `hour_of_day` field.
   For numeric fields, **Discover** provides the document statistics, minimum, median, and maximum values, a list of top values, and a distribution chart. Use this chart to get a better idea of how the values in the data are clustered.
   ![Field statistics for a numeric field.](https://docs-v3-preview.elastic.dev/elastic/docs-content/pull/3892/explore-analyze/images/kibana-field-statistics-numeric.png)
6. Expand the `geo.coordinates` field.
   For geo fields, **Discover** provides the document statistics, examples, and a map of the coordinates.
   ![Field statistics for a geo field.](https://docs-v3-preview.elastic.dev/elastic/docs-content/pull/3892/explore-analyze/images/kibana-field-statistics-geo.png)
7. Explore additional field types to see the statistics that **Discover** provides.
8. To create a Lens visualization of the field data, click ![the magnifying glass icon to create a visualization of the data in Lens](https://docs-v3-preview.elastic.dev/elastic/docs-content/pull/3892/explore-analyze/images/kibana-visualization-icon.png) or ![the Maps icon to explore the data in a map](https://docs-v3-preview.elastic.dev/elastic/docs-content/pull/3892/explore-analyze/images/kibana-map-icon.png) in the **Actions** column.