# Sudden "Error fetching fields" in Kibana

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/sudden-error-fetching-fields-in-kibana/221642>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [March 2, 2020, 8:04am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/sudden-error-fetching-fields-in-kibana/221642 "2020-03-02T08:04:56Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![michielM](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/michielm/32/46127_2.png) [@michielM](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/michielM)\
**Post date:** [March 2, 2020, 8:04am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/sudden-error-fetching-fields-in-kibana/221642/1 "2020-03-02T08:04:57Z")

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Hi everyone, I'm suddenly getting an error in Kibana "error fetching fields"  
 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/f/4/f433187520816a026d9f9bcd751bc6a1593a3884.png)  
Any ideas in what the cause of this would be and how to fix it?

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**Author:** ![rashmi](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/rashmi/32/16391_2.png) [@rashmi](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/rashmi)\
**Post date:** [March 13, 2020, 5:36am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/sudden-error-fetching-fields-in-kibana/221642/2 "2020-03-13T05:36:34Z")

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Hi Michiel,

What version are you on? Are there any Kibana logs which you can share. What was the action being done when you hit this error. Please share more info.

Also, it would be helpful to see what the request looks like using your browser's debugger.

Thanks  
Rashmi

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**Author:** ![michielM](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/michielm/32/46127_2.png) [@michielM](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/michielM)\
**Post date:** [March 27, 2020, 1:21pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/sudden-error-fetching-fields-in-kibana/221642/3 "2020-03-27T13:21:49Z")

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Hi Rashmi, sorry for the late reply. It was caused because I activated APM apparently, but it's not being used...

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**Author:** ![rashmi](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/rashmi/32/16391_2.png) [@rashmi](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/rashmi)\
**Post date:** [March 31, 2020, 3:30pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/sudden-error-fetching-fields-in-kibana/221642/4 "2020-03-31T15:30:34Z")

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Am glad you could find the root cause.

Cheers  
Rashmi

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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:** [April 28, 2020, 3:30pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/sudden-error-fetching-fields-in-kibana/221642/5 "2020-04-28T15:30:50Z")

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