# Highlighting slows down Kibana searches considerably

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/highlighting-slows-down-kibana-searches-considerably/353089>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [February 12, 2024, 3:24pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/highlighting-slows-down-kibana-searches-considerably/353089 "2024-02-12T15:24:31Z")\
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**Author:** ![lukas](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/lukas/32/6812_2.png) [@lukas](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/lukas)\
**Post date:** [February 12, 2024, 8:36pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/highlighting-slows-down-kibana-searches-considerably/353089/2 "2024-02-12T20:36:20Z")

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It looks like you're querying the `message` field... could you check if it is mapped as `match_only_text`?

I expect you're running into the same issue as reported here: [[Bug] Discover document query timeout - 8.12.0 · Issue #175216 · elastic/kibana · GitHub](https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/175216)

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