# Kibana supports arrays of objects= **URL:** \ **Category:** Kibana\ **Created:** [January 22, 2016, 2:43pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-supports-arrays-of-objects/39892 "2016-01-22T14:43:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![luis.carvalho](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d07c76/32.png) [@luis.carvalho](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/luis.carvalho)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2016, 2:43pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-supports-arrays-of-objects/39892/1 "2016-01-22T14:43:05Z")
Hi! I would like to know if the new version of Kibana already supports arrays of objects and if it does what is the right mapping for Elasticsearch? Thanks, Luís Carvalho ---
**Author:** ![rashid](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/rashid/32/12566_2.png) [@rashid](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/rashid)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2016, 9:56pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-supports-arrays-of-objects/39892/2 "2016-01-22T21:56:08Z")
Kibana does not support arrays of objects. We decided to pause on the support of nested objects for a bit while we consider better ways to implement the feature. Currently Kibana leverages lucene query string for searching, which doesn't supported nested or parent child. We're considering a custom parsed search language, but haven't made any decisions yet. Open to ideas! ---
**Author:** ![jimmyjones2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@jimmyjones2](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jimmyjones2)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2016, 9:03pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-supports-arrays-of-objects/39892/3 "2016-01-29T21:03:36Z")
I forked something to support arrays of objects here - [https://github.com/jimmyjones2/kibana/tree/flatten](https://github.com/jimmyjones2/kibana/tree/flatten) - but it's for Kibana 4.0. I did port it to 4.1 (maybe 4.2) but haven't put it on github yet. It's a fairly simple change to the flatten function, I find it useful for my use case, happy to submit it upstream if people are interested. ---
**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, 2:03pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-supports-arrays-of-objects/39892/4 "2017-07-06T14:03:49Z")