# Join indexes in Kibana

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/join-indexes-in-kibana/271885>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [May 1, 2021, 6:44pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/join-indexes-in-kibana/271885 "2021-05-01T18:44:06Z")\
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**Author:** ![Tulay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Tulay](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Tulay)\
**Post date:** [May 1, 2021, 6:44pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/join-indexes-in-kibana/271885/1 "2021-05-01T18:44:06Z")

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How can we join two indexes , if we want to join by a specific field of each index in Kibana

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**Author:** ![matw](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/matw/32/13913_2.png) [@matw](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/matw)\
**Post date:** [May 3, 2021, 6:34am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/join-indexes-in-kibana/271885/2 "2021-05-03T06:34:59Z")

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Hi  
Elasticsearch doesn't support SQL style joins, because in a distributed system they are very expensive, what is supported are the following queries:

> **[Joining queries | Elasticsearch Guide \[7.12\] | Elastic](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/joining-queries.html)**

Nested field queries in Kibana are supported by KQL, have a look here:

> **[Kibana Query Language | Kibana Guide \[7.12\] | Elastic](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/current/kuery-query.html#_nested_field_queries)**

Hope this helps,  
Best,  
Matthias

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**Author:** ![matw](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/matw/32/13913_2.png) [@matw](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/matw)\
**Post date:** [May 4, 2021, 6:37am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/join-indexes-in-kibana/271885/3 "2021-05-04T06:37:39Z")

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Here is also good info about this topic

> [@Connecting documents from different kibana indexes](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/connecting-documents-from-different-kibana-indexes/271983/5):
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> @Felix_Roessel Can you please provide some further information to your suggestion. Where can I find these functionalities and how do I use them correctly?

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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:** [June 1, 2021, 6:38am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/join-indexes-in-kibana/271885/4 "2021-06-01T06:38:32Z")

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