# Multiple spaces vs only default space
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/multiple-spaces-vs-only-default-space/172213
**Category:** Kibana
**Tags:** canvas
**Created:** [March 13, 2019, 7:42pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/multiple-spaces-vs-only-default-space/172213 "2019-03-13T19:42:12Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@rcodestuff](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/rcodestuff)
#### Post date: [March 13, 2019, 7:42pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/multiple-spaces-vs-only-default-space/172213/1 "2019-03-13T19:42:12Z")
Hi,
Is there a limit to the number of spaces that can be created?
Are spaces in order of hundreds okay?
Is there a performance improvement having canvas workpads split over multiple spaces vs having them all in one default space?
Are there any recommended best practices while creating a large number of spaces? (Will be adding spaces over time using the spaces api)
Thanks
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### Author:  [@cufflinks](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/cufflinks)
#### Post date: [March 13, 2019, 11:14pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/multiple-spaces-vs-only-default-space/172213/2 "2019-03-13T23:14:17Z")
Hello rcodestuff,
There is a limit of 1000 but that is configurable. Raising that limit may affect the performance of the application though because there are times where spaces are lazy loaded. Here is a link to the knowledge base for spaces settings.
[https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/6.7/spaces-settings-kb.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/6.7/spaces-settings-kb.html)
Splitting workpads over multiple spaces does not give any performance boost except when rendering the list of workpads. It would take 1 space with 1000 workpads longer to render that list vs. having 4 spaces with 25 each.
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### Author:  [@rcodestuff](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/rcodestuff)
#### Post date: [March 14, 2019, 11:18am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/multiple-spaces-vs-only-default-space/172213/3 "2019-03-14T11:18:24Z")
Thanks for the feedback.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [April 11, 2019, 11:18am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/multiple-spaces-vs-only-default-space/172213/4 "2019-04-11T11:18:24Z")
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