# Kibana Sorting out Array values

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-sorting-out-array-values/272266>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [May 6, 2021, 9:24am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-sorting-out-array-values/272266 "2021-05-06T09:24:26Z")\
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**Author:** ![kanikasingla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/8e8cbc/32.png) [@kanikasingla](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/kanikasingla)\
**Post date:** [May 6, 2021, 9:24am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-sorting-out-array-values/272266/1 "2021-05-06T09:24:26Z")

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Hi Team,

I am working with Elastic FunctionBeat to send logs from AWS CloudWatch Logs. I am able to create data tables, graphs etc.

There is one issue when I am trying to show field which is nested array (nestedResults), on Kibana (Lens) it is sorting the array values when displaying it on the dashboard (Lens visualization). I am breaking the nested array on the unique field values.

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/1/115b085fd1cc6189b37a6f033a4252a312512d3f.png)

The original array look like this:

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/e/1e6c919c5afc6fbde2a2d8aa60b1628ec034451e.png)

**Any way I can show them as it is without ordering the values?**

Kanika

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**Author:** ![Marius\_Dragomir](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/marius_dragomir/32/42087_2.png) [@Marius\_Dragomir](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Marius_Dragomir)\
**Post date:** [May 6, 2021, 2:42pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-sorting-out-array-values/272266/2 "2021-05-06T14:42:05Z")

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Hello,  
When viewing a single document in discover does the same sorting happen?

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**Author:** ![kanikasingla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/8e8cbc/32.png) [@kanikasingla](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/kanikasingla)\
**Post date:** [May 7, 2021, 6:32am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-sorting-out-array-values/272266/3 "2021-05-07T06:32:56Z")

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Thanks Marius for your reply.

No, then its showing correct way but in a nested JSON with array as is.

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/5/f/5f3ff1c127fbe2268610dfbdbd7d1ad22ec36591.png)

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**Author:** ![Marius\_Dragomir](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/marius_dragomir/32/42087_2.png) [@Marius\_Dragomir](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Marius_Dragomir)\
**Post date:** [May 10, 2021, 11:51am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-sorting-out-array-values/272266/4 "2021-05-10T11:51:40Z")

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Ok, then seems like a bug to me. If you want, you can create an issue here: [Issues · elastic/kibana · GitHub](https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues) or I can create it for you.

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**Author:** ![kanikasingla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/8e8cbc/32.png) [@kanikasingla](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/kanikasingla)\
**Post date:** [May 10, 2021, 1:35pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-sorting-out-array-values/272266/5 "2021-05-10T13:35:13Z")

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> [@kanikasingla](#):
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> I am trying to show field which is nested array (nestedResults), on Kibana (Lens) it is sorting the array values when displaying it on the dashboard (Lens visualization). I am breaking the nested array on the unique field values.

Thanks @Marius_Dragomir ! I added an issue here:  
[Kibana: Array Values are by default sorting instead of printing as is. · Issue #99628 · elastic/kibana (github.com)](https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/99628)

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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 7, 2021, 1:36pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-sorting-out-array-values/272266/6 "2021-06-07T13:36:02Z")

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