# Kibana cannot list saved\_objects. Fielddata is disabled on text fields by default **URL:** \ **Category:** Kibana\ **Created:** [January 7, 2020, 12:42pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-cannot-list-saved-objects-fielddata-is-disabled-on-text-fields-by-default/214052 "2020-01-07T12:42:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![KapitanPlaneta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/a6a055/32.png) [@KapitanPlaneta](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/KapitanPlaneta)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2020, 12:42pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-cannot-list-saved-objects-fielddata-is-disabled-on-text-fields-by-default/214052/1 "2020-01-07T12:42:03Z")
Create an index pattern. Then go to saved objects - 'Unable find saved objects Error: Bad Request' popup shows up. This request: `/api/kibana/management/saved_objects/_find?perPage=20&page=1&fields=id&type=config&type=map&type=canvas-workpad&type=canvas-element&type=query&type=index-pattern&type=visualization&type=search&type=dashboard&type=url&sortField=type` fails with: `{"message":"all shards failed: [illegal_argument_exception] Fielddata is disabled on text fields by default. Set fielddata=true on [type] in order to load fielddata in memory by uninverting the inverted index. Note that this can however use significant memory. Alternatively use a keyword field instead.","statusCode":400,"error":"Bad Request"}` After some digging, I found out that the following query is executed: > ``` > > GET /.kibana/_search > > { > > "query": { > > "terms": { > > "type": [ > > "dashboard", > > "visualization", > > "search", > > "index-pattern", > > "graph-workspace", > > "timelion-sheet" > > ] > > } > > }, > > "aggs": { > > "types": { > > "terms": { > > "field": "type", > > "size": 10 > > } > > } > > } > > } > > ``` against .kibana index with following mapping: ``` { ".kibana" : { "mappings" : { "properties" : { "config" : { "properties" : { "buildNum" : { "type" : "long" }, "defaultIndex" : { "type" : "text", "fields" : { "keyword" : { "type" : "keyword", "ignore_above" : 256 } } } } }, "index-pattern" : { "properties" : { "fields" : { "type" : "text", "fields" : { "keyword" : { "type" : "keyword", "ignore_above" : 256 } } }, "timeFieldName" : { "type" : "text", "fields" : { "keyword" : { "type" : "keyword", "ignore_above" : 256 } } }, "title" : { "type" : "text", "fields" : { "keyword" : { "type" : "keyword", "ignore_above" : 256 } } } } }, "migrationVersion" : { "properties" : { "index-pattern" : { "type" : "text", "fields" : { "keyword" : { "type" : "keyword", "ignore_above" : 256 } } }, "space" : { "type" : "text", "fields" : { "keyword" : { "type" : "keyword", "ignore_above" : 256 } } } } }, "namespace" : { "type" : "text", "fields" : { "keyword" : { "type" : "keyword", "ignore_above" : 256 } } }, "space" : { "properties" : { "_reserved" : { "type" : "boolean" }, "color" : { "type" : "text", "fields" : { "keyword" : { "type" : "keyword", "ignore_above" : 256 } } }, "description" : { "type" : "text", "fields" : { "keyword" : { "type" : "keyword", "ignore_above" : 256 } } }, "name" : { "type" : "text", "fields" : { "keyword" : { "type" : "keyword", "ignore_above" : 256 } } } } }, "telemetry" : { "properties" : { "enabled" : { "type" : "boolean" } } }, "type" : { "type" : "text", "fields" : { "keyword" : { "type" : "keyword", "ignore_above" : 256 } } }, "ui-metric" : { "properties" : { "count" : { "type" : "long" } } }, "updated_at" : { "type" : "date" } } } } } ``` I wasn't touching the index in any way. Why is the autogenerated setup invalid? ES and Kibana both 7.4 ---
**Author:** ![cheiligers](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/cheiligers/32/73114_2.png) [@cheiligers](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/cheiligers)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2020, 9:43pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-cannot-list-saved-objects-fielddata-is-disabled-on-text-fields-by-default/214052/2 "2020-01-07T21:43:44Z")
@KapitanPlaneta Thank you for your question! This issue appeared in a few discuss posts and the bug was reported in [https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/40133](https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/40133). A fix was merged for v7.2.0 ([https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/37674](https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/37674)). Since then, a few more reports came in and a new bug was reported for latter versions, including for version 7.4.0. ([https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/53933](https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/53933)). Previous investigations showed that the issue is intermittent and can be resolved locally following the recommendations given [here](https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/40133#issuecomment-526161723). Please let us know if that helps. If not, please add to the comments in the new bug report for version 7.4.0. Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![KapitanPlaneta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/a6a055/32.png) [@KapitanPlaneta](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/KapitanPlaneta)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2020, 12:42pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-cannot-list-saved-objects-fielddata-is-disabled-on-text-fields-by-default/214052/3 "2020-01-08T12:42:10Z")
@cheiligers Seems to be working now. I wasn't manually creating new .kibana index nor the mapping. It was recreated with correct type mapping set to keyword. I will open a bug against 7.4 incase issue happens again. Thanks for your help. ---
**Author:** ![cheiligers](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/cheiligers/32/73114_2.png) [@cheiligers](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/cheiligers)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2020, 3:26pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-cannot-list-saved-objects-fielddata-is-disabled-on-text-fields-by-default/214052/4 "2020-01-08T15:26:04Z")
@KapitanPlaneta I'm glad to hear it's working now! There is already a [bug open](https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/53933) for the issue against 7.4. Please add your findings to that one. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2020, 3:26pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-cannot-list-saved-objects-fielddata-is-disabled-on-text-fields-by-default/214052/5 "2020-02-05T15:26:07Z")
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