# Defining an index pattern in Kibana timing out

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/defining-an-index-pattern-in-kibana-timing-out/87819>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [May 31, 2017, 10:54pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/defining-an-index-pattern-in-kibana-timing-out/87819 "2017-05-31T22:54:40Z")\
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**Author:** ![Hirad\_Khakipour](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5a626/32.png) [@Hirad\_Khakipour](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Hirad_Khakipour)\
**Post date:** [May 31, 2017, 10:54pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/defining-an-index-pattern-in-kibana-timing-out/87819/1 "2017-05-31T22:54:40Z")

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I have this json log file with only 307 records, but 1416 fields for each record. I loaded them into Elasticsearch, and now I'm trying to visualize them with Kibana, just like what I did with my other log files. I also like to note the other log files all contain tens of thousands of records, but with a fewer number of fields (100~200.)

But when I try to define an index pattern using a wildcard that would contain all 307 records, I get a fatal error saying the request timed out after 30 seconds.

I assumed this problem is due to the large number of fields, but I'm pretty new to Elasticsearch and Kibana, so I need help to see if there's a workaround for this. Maybe adding more nodes? I'm currently just using one node.

Any help would be appreciated.

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**Author:** ![Marius\_Dragomir](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/marius_dragomir/32/42087_2.png) [@Marius\_Dragomir](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Marius_Dragomir)\
**Post date:** [June 2, 2017, 12:21pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/defining-an-index-pattern-in-kibana-timing-out/87819/2 "2017-06-02T12:21:40Z")

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Hello,,  
On the Kibana end, you can increase the timeout for elasticsearch requests by changing the `elasticsearch.requestTimeout` setting in your kibana.yml.

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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:** [June 30, 2017, 9:25pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/defining-an-index-pattern-in-kibana-timing-out/87819/4 "2017-06-30T21:25:52Z")

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