# Kibana Dashboard Fails to Fetch - Shard Failure

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-dashboard-fails-to-fetch-shard-failure/133279>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [May 25, 2018, 8:10am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-dashboard-fails-to-fetch-shard-failure/133279 "2018-05-25T08:10:26Z")\
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**Author:** ![Kali17](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ba9def/32.png) [@Kali17](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Kali17)\
**Post date:** [May 25, 2018, 8:10am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-dashboard-fails-to-fetch-shard-failure/133279/1 "2018-05-25T08:10:26Z")

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Hi there,

We're using ELK v-5.5 and have set our index in Kibana to logstash-\*.  
When a dashboard is loaded it searches total number of shards no matter what timeperiod is set to (15-mins).  
There are 450 shards in our case and times out with failed to load shard :  
Courrier fetch: 43 of 450 shards failed

Is there a way for Kibana to only query the shards for the specific timeperiod ?

Thanks  
Kali

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**Author:** ![Kali17](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ba9def/32.png) [@Kali17](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Kali17)\
**Post date:** [May 25, 2018, 3:35pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-dashboard-fails-to-fetch-shard-failure/133279/2 "2018-05-25T15:35:44Z")

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recreated the index with "Expand index pattern when searching"

Working much better now and its not fetching from all shards

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**Author:** ![tylersmalley](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/tylersmalley/32/8833_2.png) [@tylersmalley](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/tylersmalley)\
**Post date:** [May 29, 2018, 10:21pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-dashboard-fails-to-fetch-shard-failure/133279/3 "2018-05-29T22:21:17Z")

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Good to hear you figured it out @Kali17

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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:** [June 26, 2018, 10:21pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-dashboard-fails-to-fetch-shard-failure/133279/4 "2018-06-26T22:21:17Z")

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