# Kibana does not show nested fields for discover or visualization

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-does-not-show-nested-fields-for-discover-or-visualization/27004>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [August 6, 2015, 6:53pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-does-not-show-nested-fields-for-discover-or-visualization/27004 "2015-08-06T18:53:09Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![pavan\_bkv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/6a8cbe/32.png) [@pavan\_bkv](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/pavan_bkv)\
**Post date:** [August 6, 2015, 6:53pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-does-not-show-nested-fields-for-discover-or-visualization/27004/1 "2015-08-06T18:53:09Z")

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I have gathered ES index and node stats using logstash EXEC input and outputting that to another ES cluster. My kibana is sitting on top of the cluster to monitor the stats. I see all the nested fields in Kibana but I can't discover or visualize on any of those fields! Am I missing something?

**Kibana fields:**  
name type format analyzed indexed  
primaries.suggest.current number   
total.warmer.current number   
total.filter\_cache.memory\_size\_in\_bytes number   
total.translog.size\_in\_bytes number   
total.indexing.index\_time\_in\_millis number

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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 7, 2015, 10:47am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-does-not-show-nested-fields-for-discover-or-visualization/27004/2 "2015-08-07T10:47:30Z")

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Kibana doesn't currently support nesting or parent/child unfortunately.

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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, 11:31pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-does-not-show-nested-fields-for-discover-or-visualization/27004/3 "2015-08-11T23:31:06Z")

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Please +1 this ticket, if this is important to you (and describe your use case): [https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/1084](https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/1084)

One trick you can use is "include\_in\_parent" setting in Elasticsearch mappings, which flattens the schema at index time; it's also described in one of the comments in the ticket.

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**Author:** ![pavan\_bkv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/6a8cbe/32.png) [@pavan\_bkv](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/pavan_bkv)\
**Post date:** [August 12, 2015, 9:52pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-does-not-show-nested-fields-for-discover-or-visualization/27004/4 "2015-08-12T21:52:13Z")

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Thanks. That helps

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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, 2:14pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-does-not-show-nested-fields-for-discover-or-visualization/27004/5 "2017-07-06T14:14:54Z")

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