# "10 digest() iterations reached. Aborting!" for an index with 20K fields

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/10-digest-iterations-reached-aborting-for-an-index-with-20k-fields/170046>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [February 26, 2019, 4:46pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/10-digest-iterations-reached-aborting-for-an-index-with-20k-fields/170046 "2019-02-26T16:46:27Z")\
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**Author:** ![sgarg7](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/sgarg7/32/135988_2.png) [@sgarg7](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/sgarg7)\
**Post date:** [February 26, 2019, 4:46pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/10-digest-iterations-reached-aborting-for-an-index-with-20k-fields/170046/1 "2019-02-26T16:46:28Z")

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I'm using Kibana 6 with ES 6.3. I have an index with ~20K fields. When using this index, Kibana is very slow to respond and I get the following error quite frequently when trying to use visualizations.

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/a/6/a617a404d8448a31b26a573107207d0507be4773.png)

Has anyone else run into this error? Is there a recommendation for using Kibana 6 for an index with a large number of fields?

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**Author:** ![thomasneirynck](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/thomasneirynck/32/23313_2.png) [@thomasneirynck](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/thomasneirynck)\
**Post date:** [February 27, 2019, 4:23pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/10-digest-iterations-reached-aborting-for-an-index-with-20k-fields/170046/2 "2019-02-27T16:23:22Z")

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hi @sgarg7

this looks like a bug.

Kibana had a similar issue before ([https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/6573](https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/6573)), which was addressed, but apparently it occurs in other scenarios as well.

I would log this as a bug report in the kibana repo [https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/new](https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/new)

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**Author:** ![sgarg7](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/sgarg7/32/135988_2.png) [@sgarg7](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/sgarg7)\
**Post date:** [March 18, 2019, 4:15pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/10-digest-iterations-reached-aborting-for-an-index-with-20k-fields/170046/3 "2019-03-18T16:15:32Z")

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@thomasneirynck I have created [https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/32153](https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/32153), though haven't received a reply on it. Do you know of any other ways to get a preliminary look at this issue?

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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 15, 2019, 4:15pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/10-digest-iterations-reached-aborting-for-an-index-with-20k-fields/170046/4 "2019-04-15T16:15:37Z")

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