# Graph not showing correct nodes

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/graph-not-showing-correct-nodes/249235>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Tags:** elastic-stack-graph\
**Created:** [September 20, 2020, 5:05am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/graph-not-showing-correct-nodes/249235 "2020-09-20T05:05:26Z")\
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**Author:** ![emahdij](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/emahdij/32/73570_2.png) [@emahdij](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/emahdij)\
**Post date:** [September 20, 2020, 5:05am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/graph-not-showing-correct-nodes/249235/1 "2020-09-20T05:05:26Z")

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Hello  
When i add a field to a graph it doesn't show the correct nodes  
As you can see in below image i have five different value for 'DevName' field but when i add that to a graph it doesn't show any of them.

 ![graph](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/7/0/70c10a41d5d5224ef051a2c52a947d58b9d2324f.png) ![Discover](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/7/8/7865037d0781edd4812cc39c2b61f8799f837566.png)

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**Author:** ![tsullivan](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/tsullivan/32/31077_2.png) [@tsullivan](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/tsullivan)\
**Post date:** [October 8, 2020, 4:19pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/graph-not-showing-correct-nodes/249235/2 "2020-10-08T16:19:17Z")

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Hi, I can see the five different terms in the view of the data in Discover, but do those terms have any relationship to each other?

To add more to that: Graph is a visualizer of the Significant Terms aggregation. The "SigTerms agg" is able to find "uncommonly common" relationships of a field's terms. It can find these relationships against the background noise of "commonly common" and "uncommonly uncommon" relationships of the terms in the data.

So the question is: is your data the kind to actually have uncommonly common relationships of the DevName field?

The use case for Graph, I think, is specialized when you have data with multi-value field(s) that is made up of:

- "top terms" that show up in all the documents in the index (commonly common)
- "rare terms" that show up in a few documents in the index (uncommonly uncommon)
- "significant terms," where terms may or may not be common in the index, but when they are present in a field value, other terms significantly appear as values in the field of the same document.

The two images you shared are not really comparable. The nodes in a Graph chart are terms that are significant to each other, whereas the values in the bar chart in Graph are just the top terms.

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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:** [November 5, 2020, 4:19pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/graph-not-showing-correct-nodes/249235/3 "2020-11-05T16:19:21Z")

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