# Global search shows Index Names. How to avoid that, as they spam result?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/global-search-shows-index-names-how-to-avoid-that-as-they-spam-result/373708>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [January 27, 2025, 10:06am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/global-search-shows-index-names-how-to-avoid-that-as-they-spam-result/373708 "2025-01-27T10:06:39Z")\
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**Author:** ![arberg](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/arberg/32/93644_2.png) [@arberg](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/arberg)\
**Post date:** [January 27, 2025, 10:06am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/global-search-shows-index-names-how-to-avoid-that-as-they-spam-result/373708/1 "2025-01-27T10:06:40Z")

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In the new Kibana 8.17.1 (coming from 8.11.4) the global search now find index names when I search. This makes it difficult to use. I can see i can wrtie tag:search but that makes it slow and much less useful than just using discover \> open.

Is there a Kibana setting which prevents it from displaying index names in the search field?

I can see it doesn't show data-stream hidden indices, so I guess when we are fully migrated and all our old indices have been auto-deleted due to age, then the problem will vanish. But that's a long time to wait....