# Identify auto-refresh enabled dashboards
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/identify-auto-refresh-enabled-dashboards/230574
**Category:** Kibana
**Created:** [April 30, 2020, 2:37pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/identify-auto-refresh-enabled-dashboards/230574 "2020-04-30T14:37:42Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@jeffzhao](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jeffzhao)
#### Post date: [April 30, 2020, 2:37pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/identify-auto-refresh-enabled-dashboards/230574/1 "2020-04-30T14:37:42Z")
Hi,
Is there a way to find dashboards that have enabled auto-refresh?
Some of our users have configured them to the minimum refresh rate (every 5 seconds) and leave it open all the time which causes a constant load on Elasticsearch cluster.
Is it possible to find all of these dashboards by searching the .kibana index? Also, is it possible to disable them, or configure them to a larger refresh rate in a batch from the backend?
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### Author:  [@matw](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/matw)
#### Post date: [May 4, 2020, 12:04pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/identify-auto-refresh-enabled-dashboards/230574/2 "2020-05-04T12:04:01Z")
Hi
Yes, you can identify them by running e.g this query in Kibana's Console
`GET .kibana/_search?q=dashboard.refreshInterval.value:5000 AND dashboard.refreshInterval.pause:false`
And you can edit them in `Management / Saved Objects` , but only one after another. So to patch in a group them you'd need to write a custom script.
Hope this helps,
Matthias
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [June 1, 2020, 12:04pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/identify-auto-refresh-enabled-dashboards/230574/3 "2020-06-01T12:04:05Z")
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