# Kibana response time is too slow, need help identifying why
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-response-time-is-too-slow-need-help-identifying-why/19082
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [August 4, 2014, 9:42pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-response-time-is-too-slow-need-help-identifying-why/19082 "2014-08-04T21:42:27Z")
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### Author:  [@Tony\_Chong](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Tony_Chong)
#### Post date: [August 4, 2014, 9:42pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-response-time-is-too-slow-need-help-identifying-why/19082/1 "2014-08-04T21:42:27Z")
Hello,
Like many others, I have the ELK stack. With very little data in elastic
search, kibana 3 is super fast, but in my production environment, kibana
sometimes even fails to show any data.
Here are my hardware specs.
kibana + ES + nginx = m2.2xlarge + 20GB JVM Heap + 1TB ssd EBS volume
5 other ES machines = m3.xlarge + 10GB JVM Heap + 1TB ebs EBS volumes
We are doing about 150GB per index, 600 million documents.
6 shards per index, replication 1.
I don't know if I'm severely under provisioned in the amount of machines I
need, or if my Kibana is misconfigured. Using the ES "head" plugin, I can
run a search against a Logstash index and search for a host and get a
really fast response time so my suspicion is with Kibana.
http://mylogstash\_server.com:9200/logstash-2014.8.03/\_search
{
"query" : {
"term" : { "host" : "web03d" }
}
}
Thanks to all who care to respond!
Tony
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### Author:  [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)
#### Post date: [August 4, 2014, 11:26pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-response-time-is-too-slow-need-help-identifying-why/19082/2 "2014-08-04T23:26:04Z")
You could check the slow log or hot threads to see if there is anything.
Regards,
Mark Walkom
Infrastructure Engineer
Campaign Monitor
email: [markw@campaignmonitor.com](mailto:markw@campaignmonitor.com)
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On 5 August 2014 07:42, Tony Chong [tonyjchong@gmail.com](mailto:tonyjchong@gmail.com) wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Like many others, I have the ELK stack. With very little data in elastic
> search, kibana 3 is super fast, but in my production environment, kibana
> sometimes even fails to show any data.
>
> Here are my hardware specs.
>
> kibana + ES + nginx = m2.2xlarge + 20GB JVM Heap + 1TB ssd EBS volume
> 5 other ES machines = m3.xlarge + 10GB JVM Heap + 1TB ebs EBS volumes
>
> We are doing about 150GB per index, 600 million documents.
>
> 6 shards per index, replication 1.
>
> I don't know if I'm severely under provisioned in the amount of machines I
> need, or if my Kibana is misconfigured. Using the ES "head" plugin, I can
> run a search against a Logstash index and search for a host and get a
> really fast response time so my suspicion is with Kibana.
>
> http://mylogstash\_server.com:9200/logstash-2014.8.03/\_search
>
> {
> "query" : {
> "term" : { "host" : "web03d" }
> }
> }
>
> Thanks to all who care to respond!
> Tony
>
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### Author:  [@Tony\_Chong](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Tony_Chong)
#### Post date: [August 5, 2014, 6:28am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-response-time-is-too-slow-need-help-identifying-why/19082/3 "2014-08-05T06:28:15Z")
Well, my slow logs are 0 bytes. My logging.yml looks okay but I don't think
they are configured. I looked at the ES docs and saw that I should have
these set somewhere. I'm thinking elastic search.yml configuration file?
#index.search.slowlog.threshold.query.warn: 10s
#index.search.slowlog.threshold.query.info: 5s
#index.search.slowlog.threshold.query.debug: 2s
#index.search.slowlog.threshold.query.trace: 500ms
#index.search.slowlog.threshold.fetch.warn: 1s
#index.search.slowlog.threshold.fetch.info: 800ms
#index.search.slowlog.threshold.fetch.debug: 500ms
#index.search.slowlog.threshold.fetch.trace: 200ms
And querying for hot threads never returns a response. I have marvel
installed as well. Is there something else I can look at? Thanks,
Tony
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### Author:  [@Tony\_Chong](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Tony_Chong)
#### Post date: [August 5, 2014, 4:32pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-response-time-is-too-slow-need-help-identifying-why/19082/4 "2014-08-05T16:32:32Z")
Turns out you shouldn't use the head plugin when querying for hot threads.
I was able to get them by querying the API directly. Thanks for the tip!
On Monday, August 4, 2014 11:28:16 PM UTC-7, Tony Chong wrote:
> Well, my slow logs are 0 bytes. My logging.yml looks okay but I don't
> think they are configured. I looked at the ES docs and saw that I should
> have these set somewhere. I'm thinking Elasticsearch.yml configuration
> file?
>
> #index.search.slowlog.threshold.query.warn: 10s
> #index.search.slowlog.threshold.query.info: 5s
> #index.search.slowlog.threshold.query.debug: 2s
> #index.search.slowlog.threshold.query.trace: 500ms
>
> #index.search.slowlog.threshold.fetch.warn: 1s
> #index.search.slowlog.threshold.fetch.info: 800ms
> #index.search.slowlog.threshold.fetch.debug: 500ms
> #index.search.slowlog.threshold.fetch.trace: 200ms
>
> And querying for hot threads never returns a response. I have marvel
> installed as well. Is there something else I can look at? Thanks,
>
> Tony
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2017, 1:10am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-response-time-is-too-slow-need-help-identifying-why/19082/5 "2017-07-06T01:10:41Z")