# How to enable kibana for Keep-alive to speed up bulk delete (saved objects requests)

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-enable-kibana-for-keep-alive-to-speed-up-bulk-delete-saved-objects-requests/195223>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [August 14, 2019, 3:08pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-enable-kibana-for-keep-alive-to-speed-up-bulk-delete-saved-objects-requests/195223 "2019-08-14T15:08:06Z")\
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**Author:** ![jasswaraich](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b5ac83/32.png) [@jasswaraich](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jasswaraich)\
**Post date:** [August 14, 2019, 3:08pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-enable-kibana-for-keep-alive-to-speed-up-bulk-delete-saved-objects-requests/195223/1 "2019-08-14T15:08:06Z")

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I am using Kibana (v 6.7) Delete saved objects api to do batch deletion of multiple types (i.e. visualizations,dashboards, index-patterns).

I am using python requests library which uses urllib3.

It's taking around 1 sec for a single request and lot of time is spent in resetting the connection even though I am using keep-alive but after going through urllib3 logs, I found out connection is closed after every request.

I am already aware that with concurrency I can speed up bulk requests but still connection:close will remain as a bottleneck.

I want to know is connection:close is enforced by kibana? If so, What's the workaround to enable keep-alive in kibana?

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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:** [August 16, 2019, 2:46pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-enable-kibana-for-keep-alive-to-speed-up-bulk-delete-saved-objects-requests/195223/2 "2019-08-16T14:46:13Z")

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Can you make sure your request from urllib3 uses keep alive (i think that by default it doesn't)? That should work with Kibana, because I doubt we force connection:close.

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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:** [September 13, 2019, 2:55pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-enable-kibana-for-keep-alive-to-speed-up-bulk-delete-saved-objects-requests/195223/3 "2019-09-13T14:55:19Z")

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