jsanz
May 29, 2025, 6:59am
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Unfortunately there is no support for nested fields in Kibana. The issue to track this feature request can be found here
opened 05:10PM - 21 Mar 14 UTC
release_note:enhancement
high hanging fruit
Feature:Aggregations
loe:x-large
Team:Visualizations
impact:low
Feature:New Field Type
This is sort of a duplicate of some other issues I searched for but I haven't se… en this particular aspect discussed, so I thought this was worth a separate issue.
You read the _mapping field, so you should know when a particular field is nested, so can it not automatically apply the correct nested facet/query when such a field is selected in queries or facets?
(Alternatively/in addition as suggested by #532, you could have a checkbox to allow users to select it themselves, perhaps as an interim measure)
I'm sure there are some cases where this gets complicated, but there are also a bunch of cases where it's a straightforward changing of one block of JSON to another.
Latest update: https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/1084#issuecomment-585178079
On the other hand, there are multiple answers on the forum on how to approach this limitation. I can share a couple here:
Hi guys, I am new to the ELK stack. I have been trying to build a visualization in Kibana that involves nested object fields. But have had no luck finding any information or resource on how to accomplish that. Can someone please help guide
I am working in e-health project and we have a lot of clinical data (JSON format) stored in our data base.
We want to do some research in these data, that’s why we think that Elastic Search tool can help us in this project.
I did some tests using kibana and ES (current version). Unfortunately, the results are not helpful. I need your help to be sure that I am using ES correctly.
In fact, I created 2 new indices (for 2 patients) containing some nested fields. For example, a patient has differe…
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