# Kibana search performance over time-based indices

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-search-performance-over-time-based-indices/168617>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [February 15, 2019, 4:37pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-search-performance-over-time-based-indices/168617 "2019-02-15T16:37:51Z")\
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**Author:** ![mattkime](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/mattkime/32/43522_2.png) [@mattkime](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/mattkime)\
**Post date:** [February 20, 2019, 7:00pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-search-performance-over-time-based-indices/168617/5 "2019-02-20T19:00:08Z")

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Hello Andre,

Sorry to hear that you're suffering from reduced performance. Lets see if we can fix that.

Do you have a time filter field name selected for your index pattern?  
Do you have a rough idea of the size of your elasticsearch cluster? Number of nodes?

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