Display Top 'N' results in Kibana search

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Hi,
Is there any way to display Top 'N' (where N is integer) search results in Kibana Discover (Search). Like how we specify "size": 20 while querying Elastic Search. Currently if we specify "size" in the filter, the following warning is displayed on the dashboard.

Please let me know whether this is possible or not.

Thanks,
RK

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Hi,

You can use JSON in the Kibana search bar. I found it described here;

It's probably documented other places but that's the first place I saw. So you may be able to put the proper JSON in the search to use the "size" option.

Or, you can set the "discover:sampleSize " down from 500 to some smaller number in Settings > Advanced, but that changes it for everyone using Kibana.

But I think both of these would just return some sampling of that size. Not necessarily the "Top" results. If you want the data and not a chart, you might want to try a Data Table visualization. There you could do a Significant Terms aggregation and set your size.

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Thanks for the reply:slight_smile: