# Kibana all of a sudden requesting a larger result\_window? **URL:** \ **Category:** Kibana\ **Created:** [January 11, 2023, 3:17pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-all-of-a-sudden-requesting-a-larger-result-window/322945 "2023-01-11T15:17:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 3
**Author:** ![gborg](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/gborg/32/58934_2.png) [@gborg](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/gborg)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2023, 3:41pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-all-of-a-sudden-requesting-a-larger-result-window/322945/3 "2023-02-07T15:41:37Z")
If anyone enters this thread with the same issue as me ..... In my case it seems that sometime in the past I have edited the "advanced kibana setting" of "Discover:sampleSize" and restoring that to a lower value fixed this Same as here > [@Discover: Result window is too large, from + size must be less than or equal to: \[10000\]](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/discover-result-window-is-too-large-from-size-must-be-less-than-or-equal-to-10000/257112): > > Hi All, In an ES 6.8.6 cluster, I created an index pattern in Kibana and when I went to discover tab, I got the error Discover: Result window is too large, from + size must be less than or equal to: [10000] but was [200000]. 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 setting The indices are huge containing millions of docs. But how am I supposed t… --- _[View the full topic](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-all-of-a-sudden-requesting-a-larger-result-window/322945)._