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= Limitations

Following are the known limitations in {kib}.

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=== Nested objects

Kibana cannot perform aggregations across fields that contain nested objects.
It also cannot search on nested objects when Lucene Query Syntax is used in
the query bar.

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Using `include_in_parent` or `copy_to` as a workaround is not supported and may stop functioning in future releases.
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