# Issue with displaying nested ES object in Kibana

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/issue-with-displaying-nested-es-object-in-kibana/27198>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [August 11, 2015, 3:39pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/issue-with-displaying-nested-es-object-in-kibana/27198 "2015-08-11T15:39:58Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![tarunsapra](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/tarunsapra/32/3903_2.png) [@tarunsapra](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/tarunsapra)\
**Post date:** [August 11, 2015, 3:39pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/issue-with-displaying-nested-es-object-in-kibana/27198/1 "2015-08-11T15:39:58Z")

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Hi All,

In my ES index I have the following field which I want to display in Kibana

"tourOperator": [  
"wildlife",  
"India App"  
],

But while displaying it in Kibana, it shows 3 fields on the x-axis in the bar graph i.e. wildlife, India and App i.e. it splits the "India App" value in the 2 separate values ? While in the "Discover mode" is shows it as one value "India App" but while displaying it on the graph it shows it has 2 different values. I am using Kibana 4.1 and ES 1.6

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [August 11, 2015, 9:14pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/issue-with-displaying-nested-es-object-in-kibana/27198/2 "2015-08-11T21:14:27Z")

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KB does not properly deal with nested documents at this stage I'm afraid.

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**Author:** ![tbragin](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/tbragin/32/45166_2.png) [@tbragin](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/tbragin)\
**Post date:** [August 11, 2015, 11:56pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/issue-with-displaying-nested-es-object-in-kibana/27198/3 "2015-08-11T23:56:25Z")

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As a workaround, you could consider flattening your schema at index time (manually or by using "include\_in\_parent").

If you do need to do more advanced aggregations on nested documents, please +1 this issue and describe your use case: [https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/1084](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:** [July 6, 2017, 2:15pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/issue-with-displaying-nested-es-object-in-kibana/27198/4 "2017-07-06T14:15:00Z")

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