# Index.max\_result\_window increase limit- not updating?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-max-result-window-increase-limit-not-updating/47692>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [April 18, 2016, 5:50pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-max-result-window-increase-limit-not-updating/47692 "2016-04-18T17:50:42Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![bmilesp](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/bmilesp/32/9236_2.png) [@bmilesp](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/bmilesp)\
**Post date:** [April 18, 2016, 5:50pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-max-result-window-increase-limit-not-updating/47692/1 "2016-04-18T17:50:42Z")

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hello, i'm trying to update my index.max\_result\_window using put to here with the following body:

http://\<my\_url\>:9200/.kibana/\_settings PUT { "index" : { "max\_result\_window" : 2147483647 } }

it returns: {acknowledged : true}

but when i try and run my command i still get this error when using the api:

Result window is too large, from + size must be less than or equal to: [10000] but was [10004]. See the scroll api for a more efficient way to request large data sets. This limit can be set by changing the [index.max\_result\_window] index level parameter.

as if my updated settings did not change anything.

I also restarted the ELK stack with no luck.

Any Ideas? i've Googled everywhere and it seems like the settings update should've worked as expected?

My version of Kibana is:

Version 4.3.1  
Build 9517  
Commit SHA d6e412d

any help would be appreciated. thanks,

Brandon

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**Author:** ![leforthomas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/46a35a/32.png) [@leforthomas](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/leforthomas)\
**Post date:** [September 29, 2016, 2:09pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-max-result-window-increase-limit-not-updating/47692/2 "2016-09-29T14:09:47Z")

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Have you managed to solve this problem? I have the same and no idea what else to try.

I tried to use scrolling first but it doesn't work either... but that's probably for a different question!

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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:** [July 6, 2017, 1:37pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-max-result-window-increase-limit-not-updating/47692/3 "2017-07-06T13:37:49Z")

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