diff --git a/CHANGELOG.next.asciidoc b/CHANGELOG.next.asciidoc
index 1dd1ebd8fb2..fd46964a5fd 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.next.asciidoc
+++ b/CHANGELOG.next.asciidoc
@@ -316,6 +316,7 @@ https://github.com/elastic/beats/compare/v7.0.0-alpha2...master[Check the HEAD d
 - Update NATS dashboards to leverage connection and route metricsets {pull}22646[22646]
 - Fix rate metrics in Kafka broker metricset by using last minute rate instead of mean rate. {pull}22733[22733]
 - Fix `logstash` module when `xpack.enabled: true` is set from emitting redundant events. {pull}22808[22808]
+- Change vsphere.datastore.capacity.used.pct value to betweeen 0 and 1. {pull}23148[23148]
 
 *Packetbeat*
 
diff --git a/metricbeat/docs/fields.asciidoc b/metricbeat/docs/fields.asciidoc
index a17b8bc9098..b0f25d49120 100644
--- a/metricbeat/docs/fields.asciidoc
+++ b/metricbeat/docs/fields.asciidoc
@@ -46400,7 +46400,7 @@ format: bytes
 Used percent of the datastore
 
 
-type: long
+type: scaled_float
 
 format: percent
 
diff --git a/metricbeat/module/vsphere/datastore/_meta/data.json b/metricbeat/module/vsphere/datastore/_meta/data.json
index 75ff4a08405..fb290513a92 100644
--- a/metricbeat/module/vsphere/datastore/_meta/data.json
+++ b/metricbeat/module/vsphere/datastore/_meta/data.json
@@ -1,27 +1,30 @@
 {
     "@timestamp": "2017-10-12T08:05:34.853Z",
-    "beat": {
-        "hostname": "host.example.com",
-        "name": "host.example.com"
+    "event": {
+        "dataset": "vsphere.datastore",
+        "duration": 115000,
+        "module": "vsphere"
     },
     "metricset": {
-        "host": "http://127.0.0.1:36937/sdk",
-        "module": "vsphere",
         "name": "datastore",
-        "rtt": 115
+        "period": 10000
+    },
+    "service": {
+        "address": "http://127.0.0.1:51027/sdk",
+        "type": "vsphere"
     },
     "vsphere": {
         "datastore": {
             "capacity": {
                 "free": {
-                    "bytes": 50021150720
+                    "bytes": 267958476800
                 },
                 "total": {
-                    "bytes": 63918878720
+                    "bytes": 484736266240
                 },
                 "used": {
-                    "bytes": 13897728000,
-                    "pct": 21
+                    "bytes": 216777789440,
+                    "pct": 0.44720769733509097
                 }
             },
             "fstype": "local",
diff --git a/metricbeat/module/vsphere/datastore/_meta/fields.yml b/metricbeat/module/vsphere/datastore/_meta/fields.yml
index 7a1ff578e3f..632bb13cfe2 100644
--- a/metricbeat/module/vsphere/datastore/_meta/fields.yml
+++ b/metricbeat/module/vsphere/datastore/_meta/fields.yml
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@
         Used bytes of the datastore
       format: bytes
     - name: capacity.used.pct
-      type: long
+      type: scaled_float
       description: >
         Used percent of the datastore
       format: percent
diff --git a/metricbeat/module/vsphere/datastore/datastore.go b/metricbeat/module/vsphere/datastore/datastore.go
index c0699daae77..f794384d453 100644
--- a/metricbeat/module/vsphere/datastore/datastore.go
+++ b/metricbeat/module/vsphere/datastore/datastore.go
@@ -111,9 +111,9 @@ func (m *MetricSet) Fetch(ctx context.Context, reporter mb.ReporterV2) error {
 	}
 
 	for _, ds := range dst {
-		var usedSpacePercent int64
+		var usedSpacePercent float64
 		if ds.Summary.Capacity > 0 {
-			usedSpacePercent = 100 * (ds.Summary.Capacity - ds.Summary.FreeSpace) / ds.Summary.Capacity
+			usedSpacePercent = float64(ds.Summary.Capacity-ds.Summary.FreeSpace) / float64(ds.Summary.Capacity)
 		}
 		usedSpaceBytes := ds.Summary.Capacity - ds.Summary.FreeSpace
 
diff --git a/metricbeat/module/vsphere/datastore/datastore_test.go b/metricbeat/module/vsphere/datastore/datastore_test.go
index 30f1d32e8e3..88f5b772b5a 100644
--- a/metricbeat/module/vsphere/datastore/datastore_test.go
+++ b/metricbeat/module/vsphere/datastore/datastore_test.go
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ func TestFetchEventContents(t *testing.T) {
 
 	// Values are based on the result 'df -k'.
 	fields := []string{"capacity.total.bytes", "capacity.free.bytes",
-		"capacity.used.bytes", "capacity.used.pct"}
+		"capacity.used.bytes"}
 	for _, field := range fields {
 		value, err := event.GetValue(field)
 		if err != nil {
diff --git a/metricbeat/module/vsphere/fields.go b/metricbeat/module/vsphere/fields.go
index b0588e42a72..97a810ae68c 100644
--- a/metricbeat/module/vsphere/fields.go
+++ b/metricbeat/module/vsphere/fields.go
@@ -32,5 +32,5 @@ func init() {
 // AssetVsphere returns asset data.
 // This is the base64 encoded gzipped contents of module/vsphere.
 func AssetVsphere() string {
-	return "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"
+	return "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"
 }