diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 98c5f77..3fefd91 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0
   bengali, brazilian, bulgarian, catalan, cjk (i.e. chinese, japanese, korean), czech, danish, dutch, english, finnish,
   french, galician, german, greek, hindi, hungarian, indonesian, irish, italian, latvian, lithuanian, norwegian,
   persian, romanian, russian, sorani, spanish, swedish, turkish, thai.
+- Added toggle to show/hide edges on graph.
 
 ### Changed
 
diff --git a/frontend/src/components/atoms/GraphHideEdgesButton.tsx b/frontend/src/components/atoms/GraphHideEdgesButton.tsx
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..c566e4e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/frontend/src/components/atoms/GraphHideEdgesButton.tsx
@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+import { Switch } from "@blueprintjs/core";
+import * as React from "react";
+import styled from "styled-components";
+import FloatingCard from "./FloatingCard";
+
+const StyledSwitch = styled(Switch)`
+  margin: 0;
+`;
+
+interface IGraphHideEdgesButtonProps {
+  isShowingEdges: boolean;
+  toggleEdges: () => void;
+}
+const GraphHideEdgesButton: React.FC<IGraphHideEdgesButtonProps> = ({ isShowingEdges, toggleEdges }) => (
+  <FloatingCard>
+    <StyledSwitch checked={isShowingEdges} label="Show connections" onChange={toggleEdges} />
+  </FloatingCard>
+);
+export default GraphHideEdgesButton;
diff --git a/frontend/src/components/atoms/index.ts b/frontend/src/components/atoms/index.ts
index 1b966d4..c4b5190 100644
--- a/frontend/src/components/atoms/index.ts
+++ b/frontend/src/components/atoms/index.ts
@@ -2,4 +2,5 @@ export { default as Page } from "./Page";
 export { default as FloatingCard } from "./FloatingCard";
 export { default as GraphKey } from "./GraphKey";
 export { default as GraphResetButton } from "./GraphResetButton";
+export { default as GraphHideEdgesButton } from "./GraphHideEdgesButton";
 export { default as InstanceType } from "./InstanceType";
diff --git a/frontend/src/components/molecules/Cytoscape.tsx b/frontend/src/components/molecules/Cytoscape.tsx
index df06369..6de3d98 100644
--- a/frontend/src/components/molecules/Cytoscape.tsx
+++ b/frontend/src/components/molecules/Cytoscape.tsx
@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@ interface ICytoscapeProps {
   hoveringOver?: string;
   ranges?: { [key: string]: [number, number] };
   searchResultIds?: string[];
+  showEdges: boolean;
   navigateToInstancePath?: (domain: string) => void;
   navigateToRoot?: () => void;
 }
@@ -85,7 +86,7 @@ class Cytoscape extends React.PureComponent<ICytoscapeProps> {
         "font-size": "mapData(size, 1, 6, 10, 100)",
         "min-zoomed-font-size": 16
       })
-      .selector(".hidden") // used to hide nodes not in the neighborhood of the selected
+      .selector(".hidden") // used to hide nodes not in the neighborhood of the selected, or to hide edges
       .style({
         display: "none"
       })
@@ -146,6 +147,13 @@ class Cytoscape extends React.PureComponent<ICytoscapeProps> {
     if (!isEqual(prevProps.searchResultIds, this.props.searchResultIds)) {
       this.updateSearchResultNodeClass();
     }
+    if (prevProps.showEdges !== this.props.showEdges) {
+      if (this.props.showEdges) {
+        this.showEdges();
+      } else {
+        this.hideEdges();
+      }
+    }
   }
 
   public componentWillUnmount() {
@@ -319,6 +327,20 @@ class Cytoscape extends React.PureComponent<ICytoscapeProps> {
       }
     });
   };
+
+  private showEdges = () => {
+    if (!this.cy) {
+      throw new Error("Expected cytoscape, but there wasn't one!");
+    }
+    this.cy.edges().removeClass("hidden");
+  };
+
+  private hideEdges = () => {
+    if (!this.cy) {
+      throw new Error("Expected cytoscape, but there wasn't one!");
+    }
+    this.cy.edges().addClass("hidden");
+  };
 }
 
 export default Cytoscape;
diff --git a/frontend/src/components/molecules/GraphTools.tsx b/frontend/src/components/molecules/GraphTools.tsx
index 2ef75d0..bb6e8b8 100644
--- a/frontend/src/components/molecules/GraphTools.tsx
+++ b/frontend/src/components/molecules/GraphTools.tsx
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 import React from "react";
 import styled from "styled-components";
 import { IColorScheme } from "../../types";
-import { GraphKey, GraphResetButton } from "../atoms";
+import { GraphHideEdgesButton, GraphKey, GraphResetButton } from "../atoms";
 
 const GraphToolsContainer = styled.div`
   position: absolute;
@@ -14,20 +14,25 @@ const GraphToolsContainer = styled.div`
 interface IGraphToolsProps {
   currentColorScheme?: IColorScheme;
   colorSchemes: IColorScheme[];
+  isShowingEdges: boolean;
   ranges?: { [key: string]: [number, number] };
   onColorSchemeSelect: (colorScheme?: IColorScheme) => void;
   onResetButtonClick: () => void;
+  toggleEdges: () => void;
 }
 const GraphTools: React.FC<IGraphToolsProps> = ({
   currentColorScheme,
   colorSchemes,
+  isShowingEdges,
   ranges,
   onColorSchemeSelect,
-  onResetButtonClick
+  onResetButtonClick,
+  toggleEdges
 }) => {
   return (
     <GraphToolsContainer>
       <GraphResetButton onClick={onResetButtonClick} />
+      <GraphHideEdgesButton isShowingEdges={isShowingEdges} toggleEdges={toggleEdges} />
       <GraphKey
         current={currentColorScheme}
         colorSchemes={colorSchemes}
diff --git a/frontend/src/components/organisms/Graph.tsx b/frontend/src/components/organisms/Graph.tsx
index fae4092..16e87f0 100644
--- a/frontend/src/components/organisms/Graph.tsx
+++ b/frontend/src/components/organisms/Graph.tsx
@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@ interface IGraphProps {
 }
 interface IGraphState {
   colorScheme?: IColorScheme;
+  isShowingEdges: boolean;
 }
 class GraphImpl extends React.PureComponent<IGraphProps, IGraphState> {
   private cytoscapeComponent: React.RefObject<Cytoscape>;
@@ -34,7 +35,7 @@ class GraphImpl extends React.PureComponent<IGraphProps, IGraphState> {
   public constructor(props: IGraphProps) {
     super(props);
     this.cytoscapeComponent = React.createRef();
-    this.state = { colorScheme: undefined };
+    this.state = { colorScheme: undefined, isShowingEdges: true };
   }
 
   public componentDidMount() {
@@ -59,14 +60,17 @@ class GraphImpl extends React.PureComponent<IGraphProps, IGraphState> {
             navigateToInstancePath={this.navigateToInstancePath}
             navigateToRoot={this.navigateToRoot}
             searchResultIds={this.props.searchResultDomains}
+            showEdges={this.state.isShowingEdges}
             ref={this.cytoscapeComponent}
           />
           <GraphTools
             onResetButtonClick={this.resetGraphPosition}
             currentColorScheme={this.state.colorScheme}
             colorSchemes={colorSchemes}
+            isShowingEdges={this.state.isShowingEdges}
             onColorSchemeSelect={this.setColorScheme}
             ranges={this.props.graphResponse.metadata.ranges}
+            toggleEdges={this.toggleEdges}
           />
         </>
       );
@@ -87,6 +91,10 @@ class GraphImpl extends React.PureComponent<IGraphProps, IGraphState> {
     }
   };
 
+  private toggleEdges = () => {
+    this.setState({ isShowingEdges: !this.state.isShowingEdges });
+  };
+
   private setColorScheme = (colorScheme?: IColorScheme) => {
     this.setState({ colorScheme });
   };
diff --git a/frontend/src/components/screens/InstanceScreen.tsx b/frontend/src/components/screens/InstanceScreen.tsx
index d08c199..7a3f7f3 100644
--- a/frontend/src/components/screens/InstanceScreen.tsx
+++ b/frontend/src/components/screens/InstanceScreen.tsx
@@ -236,6 +236,7 @@ class InstanceScreenImpl extends React.PureComponent<IInstanceScreenProps, IInst
           elements={localGraph!}
           currentNodeId={this.props.instanceName}
           navigateToInstancePath={this.props.navigateToInstance}
+          showEdges={true}
         />
         <Divider />
       </StyledGraphContainer>