---
title: Nested Structures · Cloudflare Analytics docs
description: "Two kinds of nested structures that are supported: arrays and
  maps. Fields of either of these types are arrays; when they are part of a
  query result, which is already an array of objects, they become nested
  arrays."
lastUpdated: 2025-05-15T16:26:01.000Z
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---

Two kinds of nested structures that are supported: **arrays** and **maps**. Fields of either of these types are arrays; when they are part of a query result, which is already an array of objects, they become nested arrays.

## Arrays

The GraphQL API supports two different sorts of arrays:

* Some arrays contain scalar types (for example, `[String]`) and function like ordinary fields that [can be filtered](https://developers.cloudflare.com/analytics/graphql-api/features/filtering/)
* Some arrays contain more complex types (for example, `[Subrequest]`.) The following section describes their behaviour.

Arrays of non-scalar types behave as a single value. There is no way to paginate through, filter, filter by, group, or group by the array.

On the other hand, you can choose which fields of the underlying type you want fetched.

For example, given arrays like this:

```javascript
type SubRequest {
    url: String!
    status: Int
}


type Request {
    date: Date!
    datetime: DateTime!
    subRequests: [SubRequest!]!
}
```

You can run a query to get the status by subrequest:

```javascript
{
    requests {
        date
        subRequests {
            # discard the url, only need the status
            status
        }
    }
}
```

The results would be:

```javascript
{
    "requests": [
        {
            "date": "2018-01-01",
            "subRequests": [{"status": 404}, {"status": 200}, {"status": 404}]
        },
        {
            "date": "2018-01-01",
            "subRequests": [{"status": 200}]
        }
    ]
}
```

## Maps

Maps behave like arrays, but can be grouped using the `sum` function. They are used in aggregated datasets, such as `httpRequest1dGroups`.

Example maps:

```javascript
type URLStatsMapElem {
    url: String!
    requests: Int
    bytes: Int
}


type Request {
    date: Date!
    datetime: DateTime!
    urlStatsMap: [URLStatsMapElem!]!
}
```

Query:

```javascript
{
    requests {
        sum {
            urlStatsMap {
                url
                requests
                bytes
            }
        }
        dimensions {
            date
        }
    }
}
```

Response:

```javascript
{
    "requests": [
        {
            "sum": {
                "urlStatsMap": [
                    {
                        "url": "hello-world.org/1",
                        "requests": 123,
                        "bytes": 1024
                    },
                    {
                        "url": "hello-world.org/10",
                        "requests": 1230,
                        "bytes": 10240
                    }
                ]
            }
            "dimensions" {
                "date": "2018-10-19"
            }
        },
        ...
    ]
}
```

## Examples

Query array fields in raw datasets:

```graphql
query NestedFields($zoneTag: string, $start: Time, $end: Time) {
  viewer {
    zones(filter: { zoneTag: $zoneTag }) {
      events(limit: 2, filter: { datetime_geq: $start, datetime_leq: $end }) {
        matches {
          ruleId
          action
          source
        }
      }
    }
  }
}
```

[Run in GraphQL API Explorer](https://graphql.cloudflare.com/explorer?query=I4VwpgTgngBAcmAzgFzAEwGIEswBs2IAUAJAF4D2AdmACoCGA5gFwwoRaUMA0MxKdEZCxpYAtmB7EwlNMLFgAlDADeAKBgwAbjgDukFeo0wK1IgDMsuVBBbLjVWoxZkH9BjAC+StUaNhN0shEuGJYQjAATDwWVpC2MGh0qMjyAPoMYMDO-II8iclpuJnO0mie3oa+GqJJAMYAFkgGVVUQIEUAkmiVLTB0tSlUPS2I5CAQtWDDRh7Ts77znqoeQA\&variables=N4IgXg9gdgpgKgQwOYgFwgFoHkByBRAfQEkAREAGhAGcAXBAJxrRACYAGFgVgFoBGN7iwDMcXgA5U41CwBsGCiBhQAJs3Zc+AlgBY4bNpImz5AXyA)

Example response:

```javascript
{
  "data": {
    "viewer": {
      "zones": [
        {
          "events": [
            {
              "matches": [
                {
                  "action": "allow",
                  "ruleId": "rule-id-one",
                  "source": "asn"
                },
                {
                  "action": "block",
                  "ruleId": "rule-id-two",
                  "source": "asn"
                }
              ]
            }
          ]
        }
      ]
    }
  },
  "errors": null
}
```

Query maps fields in aggregated datasets:

```graphql
query MapCapacity(
  $zoneTag: string
  $dateStart: Date
  $dateEnd: Date
  $start: Time
  $end: Time
) {
  viewer {
    zones(filter: { zoneTag: $zoneTag }) {
      httpRequests1mGroups(
        limit: 10
        filter: {
          date_geq: $dateStart
          date_leq: $dateEnd
          datetime_geq: $start
          datetime_lt: $end
        }
      ) {
        sum {
          countryMap {
            clientCountryName
            requests
            bytes
            threats
          }
        }
        dimensions {
          datetimeHour
        }
      }
    }
  }
}
```

[Run in GraphQL API Explorer](https://graphql.cloudflare.com/explorer?query=I4VwpgTgngBAsgQwA4GFkIMYEsAuUAUAUDDACQBeA9gHZgAqCA5gFwwDOOEW1jxZAJghxgAyjgQQcrACJCwfUoOEBRavxlyFHCVJh0sAW3klSYNa31HCAShgBvPgDcsYAO6R7fElVpt8AMywAG2EIVjsYH3omVgoaaMYYAF9bBxJ0mAALHBwkACUwUDAONgBGAwBxCEoQJD8vDJggw1xWUoAGBozAkMhwrsalMAB9RkLYobEdAYyh4aDxgTlVfhn0oZxDEbHgWO1JNZINrfndUzU1pIHUtbYQA09Gxowa6k4oRCRHp+fmsxwUK93gA5BBWH6NCCFcAlQ7pABGUGEbDhJBwmShQhREJIVwheJ+-C21DYWBobG+EOORgAEjUIJcBgTcXwrkkgA\&variables=N4IgXg9gdgpgKgQwOYgFwgFoHkByBRAfQEkAREAGhABMEAXGAZVoQCda0QAmABk4FYAtAEZuAzgGYK1OjDxQqHHv2GjOAFikBnZm0W9BIseLhCAHKjOpOANgxSY8vcsPq43bhfM27AXyA)

Example response:

```javascript
{
  "data": {
    "viewer": {
      "zones": [
        {
          "httpRequests1mGroups": [
            {
              "dimensions": {
                "datetime": "2019-03-08T17:00:00Z"
              },
              "sum": {
                "countryMap": [
                  {
                    "bytes": 51911317,
                    "clientCountryName": "XK",
                    "requests": 4492,
                    "threats": 0
                  },
                  {
                    "bytes": 1816103586,
                    "clientCountryName": "T1",
                    "requests": 132423,
                    "threats": 0
                  },
                  ...
                ]
              }
            }
          ]
        }
      ]
    }
  },
  "errors": null
}
```
