# Kibana HeatMap Layer not displaying

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-heatmap-layer-not-displaying/303288>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [April 26, 2022, 12:54pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-heatmap-layer-not-displaying/303288 "2022-04-26T12:54:00Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![Alessandro\_Agnello](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/alessandro_agnello/32/104854_2.png) [@Alessandro\_Agnello](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Alessandro_Agnello)\
**Post date:** [April 26, 2022, 12:54pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-heatmap-layer-not-displaying/303288/1 "2022-04-26T12:54:00Z")

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I have tried with version 8.1.2 and upgraded to 8.1.3, I cannot get any heat maps to work. I do have it working for Documents Layer type without any problems.

Thanks

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**Author:** ![stephenb](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/stephenb/32/40856_2.png) [@stephenb](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/stephenb)\
**Post date:** [April 26, 2022, 4:03pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-heatmap-layer-not-displaying/303288/2 "2022-04-26T16:03:49Z")

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Hi @Alessandro_Agnello Welcome to the community.

It is unclear what your issue.

Can you show your document types?

Show how you tried to configure heat maps?

Is there a time range for valid data?

Can you show us what does work for the document layer?

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**Author:** ![Nathan\_Reese](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/nathan_reese/32/84829_2.png) [@Nathan\_Reese](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Nathan_Reese)\
**Post date:** [April 27, 2022, 10:24pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-heatmap-layer-not-displaying/303288/3 "2022-04-27T22:24:25Z")

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@Alessandro_Agnello, how are running Elasticsearch? In cloud or from a download. There is a [bug](https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/130291) in 8.1 that prevents vector tiles from loading in on-prem instances (and in 8.1, heatmap layer implementation was switched to using vector tiles.). The work around is setting `http.compression: true` in Elasticsearch.yml.

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**Author:** ![Alessandro\_Agnello](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/alessandro_agnello/32/104854_2.png) [@Alessandro\_Agnello](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Alessandro_Agnello)\
**Post date:** [April 27, 2022, 10:46pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-heatmap-layer-not-displaying/303288/4 "2022-04-27T22:46:06Z")

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@Nathan_Reese I am running via a Docker using Docker-Compose running a standard config. I will say the vector tiles are a great combination use of both Heat Maps and detailed values.

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**Author:** ![stephenb](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/stephenb/32/40856_2.png) [@stephenb](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/stephenb)\
**Post date:** [April 27, 2022, 10:55pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-heatmap-layer-not-displaying/303288/5 "2022-04-27T22:55:49Z")

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@Alessandro_Agnello

Did the compression setting work for you? ( Funny! I should have remembered that since I was on the last discussion on this and helped identify the bug 🙂 )

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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:** [May 25, 2022, 10:56pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-heatmap-layer-not-displaying/303288/6 "2022-05-25T22:56:46Z")

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