# Unable to retrieve all documents from elastic

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-retrieve-all-documents-from-elastic/163653>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [January 10, 2019, 3:56am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-retrieve-all-documents-from-elastic/163653 "2019-01-10T03:56:46Z")\
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**Author:** ![Oddo\_Da](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/4491bb/32.png) [@Oddo\_Da](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Oddo_Da)\
**Post date:** [January 10, 2019, 3:56am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-retrieve-all-documents-from-elastic/163653/1 "2019-01-10T03:56:46Z")

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Hello, I am fairly new to elastic. As a test, I loaded 500 documents into elasticsearch (6.4.2) via a bulk query. When I run a query/match\_all to see them (e.g. in Kibana) I only get 10 - like so (excerpt below). Why am I not seeing all 500? The logs do not show anything unusual and the bulk load query returned no errors when I ran it. Any help would be appreciated on what to investigate further. Thanks!

{  
"took": 2,  
"timed\_out": false,  
"\_shards": {  
"total": 5,  
"successful": 5,  
"skipped": 0,  
"failed": 0  
},  
"hits": {  
"total": 500,  
"max\_score": 1,  
"hits": [  
{  
"\_index": "regions",  
"\_type": "region",  
"\_id": "F\_naNWgBSUyiJincrQbS",  
"\_score": 1,  
"\_source": {  
"segID": "testsegmentation::31d0635b-8012-4cba-9ec5-d813bd80de46",  
"segChr": "1",  
"segStart": 29737,  
"segEnd": 30137  
}  
},  
{  
"\_index": "regions",  
"\_type": "region",  
"\_id": "GvnaNWgBSUyiJincrQbS",  
"\_score": 1,  
"\_source": {  
"segID": "testsegmentation::38c746c5-9136-4044-90e2-5832ed36f9b3",  
"segChr": "1",  
"segStart": 36937,  
"segEnd": 57937  
}  
}

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**Author:** ![dadoonet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dadoonet/32/137187_2.png) [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)\
**Post date:** [January 10, 2019, 6:02am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-retrieve-all-documents-from-elastic/163653/2 "2019-01-10T06:02:29Z")

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Read [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/6.5/search-request-from-size.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/6.5/search-request-from-size.html)

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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:** [February 7, 2019, 6:02am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-retrieve-all-documents-from-elastic/163653/3 "2019-02-07T06:02:30Z")

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