# Courier Fetch: 5 of 10 shards failed

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/courier-fetch-5-of-10-shards-failed/34783>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [November 17, 2015, 10:15am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/courier-fetch-5-of-10-shards-failed/34783 "2015-11-17T10:15:50Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![SureshSala](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce7236/32.png) [@SureshSala](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/SureshSala)\
**Post date:** [November 17, 2015, 10:15am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/courier-fetch-5-of-10-shards-failed/34783/1 "2015-11-17T10:15:50Z")

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Kibana Error: Courier Fetch: 5 of 10 shards failed.

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**Author:** ![GustavoHoyer1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/6a8cbe/32.png) [@GustavoHoyer1](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/GustavoHoyer1)\
**Post date:** [November 17, 2015, 10:47pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/courier-fetch-5-of-10-shards-failed/34783/2 "2015-11-17T22:47:41Z")

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See what is going on es logs. I've faced this problem recently and on my es logs i was getting te following error: MaxBytesLengthExceededException

More details at: [https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/2782](https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/2782)

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [November 17, 2015, 10:53pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/courier-fetch-5-of-10-shards-failed/34783/3 "2015-11-17T22:53:17Z")

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Also please provide more information, your post contains absolutely nothing useful other than an error message.

Are you asking for help or are you just telling us about your errors?

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**Author:** ![SureshSala](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce7236/32.png) [@SureshSala](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/SureshSala)\
**Post date:** [November 21, 2015, 5:25pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/courier-fetch-5-of-10-shards-failed/34783/4 "2015-11-21T17:25:06Z")

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I am running elasticseach service of aws. im not sure what exactly happening. now even worst page itself is not loading

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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:** [July 6, 2017, 2:08pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/courier-fetch-5-of-10-shards-failed/34783/5 "2017-07-06T14:08:32Z")

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