# What are limitations in vega-lite compared to vega?

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-are-limitations-in-vega-lite-compared-to-vega/223033
**Category:** Kibana
**Tags:** vega
**Created:** [March 11, 2020, 12:22am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-are-limitations-in-vega-lite-compared-to-vega/223033 "2020-03-11T00:22:07Z")
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### Author: ![m-amano](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/m-amano/32/62977_2.png) [@m-amano](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/m-amano)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2020, 12:22am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-are-limitations-in-vega-lite-compared-to-vega/223033/1 "2020-03-11T00:22:08Z")

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I want to know specification of limitations in vega-lite compared to vega.  
Nor if there are anything that vega can't do but vega-lite can.

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### Author: ![rashmi](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/rashmi/32/16391_2.png) [@rashmi](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/rashmi)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2020, 5:21am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-are-limitations-in-vega-lite-compared-to-vega/223033/2 "2020-03-11T05:21:03Z")

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The Vega visualization in Kibana supports both Vega and Vega-Lite. You can use the `schema` value to define which language you would like to use and its minimum required version.

For example:

- Vega-Lite v2: `$schema: https://vega.github.io/schema/vega-lite/v2.json`
- Vega v4: `$schema: https://vega.github.io/schema/vega/v4.json`

The `schema` URL is only used for identification, and does not need to be accessible by Kibana.

Vega-Lite is a simplified version of Vega; it automates some constructions and has much shorter specifications than Vega. Vega-Lite is automatically converted into Vega before rendering, but it has some limitations, and there are some visualizations that can be expressed in Vega that cannot be expressed in Vega-Lite. You can learn more in the [Vega-Lite documentation](https://vega.github.io/vega-lite/).

More documentation can be found here:  
[https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/master/vega-vs-vegalite.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/master/vega-vs-vegalite.html)

thanks  
Rashmi

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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: [April 8, 2020, 5:21am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-are-limitations-in-vega-lite-compared-to-vega/223033/3 "2020-04-08T05:21:06Z")

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