# Parent and sibling pipeline aggregations

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/parent-and-sibling-pipeline-aggregations/120475
**Category:** Kibana
**Created:** [February 19, 2018, 3:03pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/parent-and-sibling-pipeline-aggregations/120475 "2018-02-19T15:03:52Z")
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### Author: ![tomak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d9b06d/32.png) [@tomak](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/tomak)
#### Post date: [February 19, 2018, 3:03pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/parent-and-sibling-pipeline-aggregations/120475/1 "2018-02-19T15:03:52Z")

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Reading the doc of Kibana, I don't understand the notion of a parent and sibling pipeline aggregation.

Can someone explain this?

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### Author: ![bhavyarm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/bhavyarm/32/22392_2.png) [@bhavyarm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/bhavyarm)
#### Post date: [February 19, 2018, 10:11pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/parent-and-sibling-pipeline-aggregations/120475/2 "2018-02-19T22:11:51Z")

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Hi,

They are our pipeline aggregations from Elasticsearch. This should help:  
[https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/search-aggregations-pipeline.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/search-aggregations-pipeline.html)

Thanks,  
Bhavya

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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: [March 19, 2018, 10:12pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/parent-and-sibling-pipeline-aggregations/120475/3 "2018-03-19T22:12:46Z")

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