# Kibana 4.2 very slow initialization

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-4-2-very-slow-initialization/33711
**Category:** Kibana
**Created:** [November 4, 2015, 8:15am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-4-2-very-slow-initialization/33711 "2015-11-04T08:15:54Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author: ![samuelbr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7ba0ec/32.png) [@samuelbr](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/samuelbr)
#### Post date: [November 4, 2015, 8:15am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-4-2-very-slow-initialization/33711/1 "2015-11-04T08:15:54Z")

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When I open a Kibana in Chrome (but also in IE), a text "Searching" is shown for a very long time - more than 2 minutes.

I attach images for illustration:

Slow loading:  
 ![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/2X/8/8e12748b940f3bccd0cb6633af90a738a5aaa3f0.png)

Result after 2 minutes:  
 ![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/2X/f/ffc460e6ca9e9c84b3184387e94f211e40bfbf62.png)

Profiler:  
 ![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/2X/6/6a6bb2edcf85df59d9a5be418d22e3f464241d02.png)

Kibana requests:

![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/2X/6/6fd29c3c98349bb7065376b1e879dc339c79376d.png)

Chrome console:

 ![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/2X/f/f20e5e2c1dac768a92f130bf6c9ef9c894531460.png)

Logs from kibana:

```
  log [09:08:46.055] [debug][plugin] Checking Elasticsearch version respons [09:08:47.356] POST /elasticsearch/_msearch?timeout=0&ignore_unavailable=true&preference=1446624515112 200 27ms - 9.0B
respons [09:08:47.400] POST /elasticsearch/_msearch?timeout=0&ignore_unavailable=true&preference=1446624515112 200 15ms - 9.0B
respons [09:08:47.440] POST /elasticsearch/_msearch?timeout=0&ignore_unavailable=true&preference=1446624515112 200 12ms - 9.0B
respons [09:08:47.856] POST /elasticsearch/_msearch?timeout=0&ignore_unavailable=true&preference=1446624515112 200 396ms - 9.0B
  ops [09:08:47.862] memory: 47.9MB uptime: 0:01:23 load: [0.00 0.00 0.00] delay: 1.729

```

Logstash index in ES has 45 fields.

Thanks.

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### Author: ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)
#### Post date: [November 4, 2015, 8:16am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-4-2-very-slow-initialization/33711/2 "2015-11-04T08:16:56Z")

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What specs does your KB node have?

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### Author: ![samuelbr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7ba0ec/32.png) [@samuelbr](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/samuelbr)
#### Post date: [November 4, 2015, 8:28am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-4-2-very-slow-initialization/33711/3 "2015-11-04T08:28:26Z")

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> [@warkolm](#):
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> What specs does your KB node have?

It's latetest KB (4.2.0 on Windows). I edited elasticsearch.url in kibana.yml.  
I have same problem with KB on CentOS. I think it's client side problem - it's visible on JS profiler image.

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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, 2:10pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-4-2-very-slow-initialization/33711/4 "2017-07-06T14:10:02Z")

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