# How to access sub fields in Kibana?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-access-sub-fields-in-kibana/211731>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [December 12, 2019, 10:15pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-access-sub-fields-in-kibana/211731 "2019-12-12T22:15:06Z")\
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**Author:** ![Coder\_HK](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/coder_hk/32/57814_2.png) [@Coder\_HK](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Coder_HK)\
**Post date:** [December 12, 2019, 10:15pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-access-sub-fields-in-kibana/211731/1 "2019-12-12T22:15:06Z")

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I want to access the sub-fields technique\_id etc for visualization..  
for example I want to make a pie chart of how many events are created per technique id. But I can't access those sub fields inside message field. How can I do this ?

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**Author:** ![Brandon\_Kobel](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/brandon_kobel/32/14829_2.png) [@Brandon\_Kobel](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Brandon_Kobel)\
**Post date:** [December 16, 2019, 4:48pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-access-sub-fields-in-kibana/211731/2 "2019-12-16T16:48:11Z")

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Hey @Coder_HK, this is unfortunately a known limitation of Kibana per [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/current/nested-objects.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/current/nested-objects.html). We're tracking the request for this [here](https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/1084)

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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 13, 2020, 4:48pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-access-sub-fields-in-kibana/211731/3 "2020-01-13T16:48:25Z")

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