# Hierarchical topology in Kibana Graph - Is it possible to construct a hierarchical topology?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/hierarchical-topology-in-kibana-graph-is-it-possible-to-construct-a-hierarchical-topology/321522>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Tags:** elastic-stack-graph\
**Created:** [December 19, 2022, 7:06am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/hierarchical-topology-in-kibana-graph-is-it-possible-to-construct-a-hierarchical-topology/321522 "2022-12-19T07:06:35Z")\
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**Author:** ![Dimple.P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9dc877/32.png) [@Dimple.P](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Dimple.P)\
**Post date:** [December 19, 2022, 7:06am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/hierarchical-topology-in-kibana-graph-is-it-possible-to-construct-a-hierarchical-topology/321522/1 "2022-12-19T07:06:35Z")

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Is it possible to construct a hierarchical topology, and if so, how do users pass data for that?

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/c/4/c40a5dddba5cd0beea5d16897842ce041e88a51a.png)

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**Author:** ![dadiasish](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dadiasish/32/114221_2.png) [@dadiasish](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadiasish)\
**Post date:** [December 19, 2022, 7:47am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/hierarchical-topology-in-kibana-graph-is-it-possible-to-construct-a-hierarchical-topology/321522/2 "2022-12-19T07:47:00Z")

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You can try using Graphs as shown in the picture below.

> **[Graph | Kibana Guide \[8.4\] | Elastic](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/8.4/xpack-graph.html)**
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> Kibana provides you with several options to share \*Discover\* saved searches, dashboards, \*Visualize Library\* visualizations, and \*Canvas\* workpads with others, or on a website.

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/f/8/f81887bde65106b39ef01996782838d6fb2f8dc1.png)

Or you can use the Vega Visualization type to construct a similar kind of view.

> **[Tree Layout Example](https://vega.github.io/vega/examples/tree-layout/)**
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> Vega - A Visualization Grammar. Vega is a visualization grammar, a declarative format for creating, saving, and sharing interactive visualization designs. With Vega, you can describe the visual appearance and interactive behavior of a visualization...

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**Author:** ![Dimple.P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9dc877/32.png) [@Dimple.P](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Dimple.P)\
**Post date:** [December 19, 2022, 8:46am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/hierarchical-topology-in-kibana-graph-is-it-possible-to-construct-a-hierarchical-topology/321522/3 "2022-12-19T08:46:35Z")

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> [@dadiasish](#):
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> g Graphs as shown in the picture below.

Thank you for your quick reply, Yes, I'm trying to use the Graph Feature in Kibana for hierarchical topology, but I'm having trouble figuring out how to transfer the data with parent-child relationships.  
Eg:

```auto
[{
    "number": "1",
    "name": "John",
    "Category": "Sales",
    "date": "2022-12-12T04:13:47Z"
},
{
     "number": "2",
    "name": "Jorge",
    "Category": "Manager",
    "date": "2022-12-12T04:13:47Z"
},
{
    "number": "3",
    "name": "Games",
    "Category": "Pricing",
    "date": "2022-12-12T04:13:47Z"
},
{
    "number": "4",
    "name": "Gilbert",
    "Category": "Pricing",
    "date": "2022-12-12T04:13:47Z"
},
{
    "number": "5",
    "name": "Dan",
    "Category": "Billing",
    "date": "2022-12-12T04:13:47Z"
}]

```

Note : Here People under Manager category is parent and people under Sales & Pricing category are child, and people under billing are child of Pricing category.

Help me on how to pass the data for this parent-child relationship based on graph pattern.

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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:** [January 16, 2023, 8:46am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/hierarchical-topology-in-kibana-graph-is-it-possible-to-construct-a-hierarchical-topology/321522/4 "2023-01-16T08:46:37Z")

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