# Kibana 4 change discover settings (quick count)

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-4-change-discover-settings-quick-count/41306
**Category:** Kibana
**Created:** [February 9, 2016, 6:01pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-4-change-discover-settings-quick-count/41306 "2016-02-09T18:01:32Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author: ![jonatanzafar59](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/848f3c/32.png) [@jonatanzafar59](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jonatanzafar59)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2016, 6:01pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-4-change-discover-settings-quick-count/41306/1 "2016-02-09T18:01:32Z")

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Hi!

In Kibana 4, when I heat discover I get a default quick count of 500 documents.

How can this value be changed?

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### Author: ![Court](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/court/32/6640_2.png) [@Court](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Court)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2016, 7:01pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-4-change-discover-settings-quick-count/41306/2 "2016-02-09T19:01:04Z")

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You can change that, along with many other things, in the Advanced Settings section: [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/current/advanced-options.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/current/advanced-options.html)

Look for discover:sampleSize

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### Author: ![jonatanzafar59](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/848f3c/32.png) [@jonatanzafar59](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jonatanzafar59)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2016, 7:14pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-4-change-discover-settings-quick-count/41306/3 "2016-02-09T19:14:17Z")

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if you come to Israel Falafel on the house.

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### Author: ![Court](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/court/32/6640_2.png) [@Court](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Court)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2016, 7:35pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-4-change-discover-settings-quick-count/41306/4 "2016-02-09T19:35:18Z")

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Ha! Maybe I'll hold you to that some day. Glad that worked for you.

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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, 2:02pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-4-change-discover-settings-quick-count/41306/5 "2017-07-06T14:02:45Z")

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