# Kibana - Graph plugin - relevance of vertex distances?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-graph-plugin-relevance-of-vertex-distances/48584>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Tags:** elastic-stack-graph\
**Created:** [April 27, 2016, 6:42pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-graph-plugin-relevance-of-vertex-distances/48584 "2016-04-27T18:42:04Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![rmoff](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/rmoff/32/20212_2.png) [@rmoff](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/rmoff)\
**Post date:** [April 27, 2016, 6:42pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-graph-plugin-relevance-of-vertex-distances/48584/1 "2016-04-27T18:42:04Z")

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In the Kibana Graph plugin, is there any significance to the distance between vertices?

For example, the distance that the circled ones here are from the rest of the vertices?

 ![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/2X/1/1ed651f9b285ec5972e17a41102f0acf52070118.png)

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**Author:** ![Mark\_Harwood](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/mark_harwood/32/10538_2.png) [@Mark\_Harwood](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Mark_Harwood)\
**Post date:** [April 27, 2016, 10:24pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-graph-plugin-relevance-of-vertex-distances/48584/2 "2016-04-27T22:24:39Z")

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No, that is just the layout algorithms at work

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**Author:** ![rmoff](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/rmoff/32/20212_2.png) [@rmoff](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/rmoff)\
**Post date:** [April 28, 2016, 5:23pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-graph-plugin-relevance-of-vertex-distances/48584/3 "2016-04-28T17:23:35Z")

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Thanks, good to know.

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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, 1:43pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-graph-plugin-relevance-of-vertex-distances/48584/4 "2017-07-06T13:43:48Z")

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