# Kibana shows blank page for large indices

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-shows-blank-page-for-large-indices/121108>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [February 22, 2018, 6:03pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-shows-blank-page-for-large-indices/121108 "2018-02-22T18:03:27Z")\
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**Author:** ![melissachang](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/melissachang/32/36684_2.png) [@melissachang](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/melissachang)\
**Post date:** [February 22, 2018, 6:03pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-shows-blank-page-for-large-indices/121108/1 "2018-02-22T18:03:28Z")

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If I point Kibana to an ElasticSearch with small indices, Kibana loads right away. If I point Kibana to an ElasticSearch with large indices, I see this [blank page](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-3tXeWtYODxLy8txHIwy8yz76rz3tppm/view?usp=sharing). It's been 25 minutes and I still see the blank page.

Here's the large index:

```
health status index uuid pri rep docs.count docs.deleted store.size pri.store.size
yellow open concept jS0SEd6NQmiR_y4eIG48fQ 5 1 4385390 0 1.3gb 1.3gb

```

[Kibana output](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1l-2E4o0f6d7RGuE9y9iVzxvL3jzOCzC-BwjilWRDD4A/edit?usp=sharing)

Can I file a bug to show some sort of loading indicator?

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**Author:** ![LeeDr](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/leedr/32/9289_2.png) [@LeeDr](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/LeeDr)\
**Post date:** [February 22, 2018, 6:49pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-shows-blank-page-for-large-indices/121108/2 "2018-02-22T18:49:00Z")

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It looks like you were on the `Dev Tools` page when you got the blank screen. Or were you somewhere else like Discover and the highlight on `Dev Tools` is just a symptom of the page not loading?

When you're on Discover page, Kibana does show a loading indicator while it has a request to Elasticsearch in progress. And it loads "hits" incrementally as they come in from different nodes (or shards).

Can you please check your Kibana and Elasticsearch logs to see if there's an error?

This is the latest Kibana 6.2.2 release, but the loading indicator (of some type) has been there since at least 4.x version. In this case it's the pink moving bar near the top of the screen.

 ![Elasticsearch4](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/9/8/9885ac01442d24960b05d79f793cb66d0a5d93fe.gif)

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**Author:** ![melissachang](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/melissachang/32/36684_2.png) [@melissachang](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/melissachang)\
**Post date:** [February 23, 2018, 6:11pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-shows-blank-page-for-large-indices/121108/3 "2018-02-23T18:11:57Z")

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Hmm, I changed some configuration and I no longer see this problem. I think there was an issue with networking and/or firewalls. Thanks.

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**Author:** ![melissachang](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/melissachang/32/36684_2.png) [@melissachang](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/melissachang)\
**Post date:** [February 23, 2018, 8:23pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-shows-blank-page-for-large-indices/121108/4 "2018-02-23T20:23:41Z")

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Some additional details in case others find this helpful.

So usually when Kibana can't reach Elasticsearch, it shows "Elasticsearch plugin is red":

 ![kibana](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/f/b/fbc812cd91ccbb563f20761f9e245d13720382e1.png)

For some reason, I was getting a blank page instead:

 ![kibana%20(1)](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/a/8/a855b1b58927dfd729ed6bfa8e7cdb1993db9644.png)

The blank page is misleading; because I don't see "Elasticsearch plugin is red", I thought Elasticsearch connection was fine.

In the scenario where I got the blank page, the Elasticsearch IP was correct and port was wrong.

But when I start kibana on my desktop with "-e [http://localhost:9201](http://localhost:9201)", where 9201 is the wrong Elasticsearch port, I don't get a blank page. I'm not sure why blank page is sometimes displayed -- probably something to do with networking settings.

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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:** [March 23, 2018, 8:23pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-shows-blank-page-for-large-indices/121108/5 "2018-03-23T20:23:44Z")

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Closed on March 23, 2018, 8:23pm UTC

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