# Visualization & Dashboard return no results found, while discover tab successfully displays results ?!

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/visualization-dashboard-return-no-results-found-while-discover-tab-successfully-displays-results/91729>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [July 4, 2017, 8:04am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/visualization-dashboard-return-no-results-found-while-discover-tab-successfully-displays-results/91729 "2017-07-04T08:04:26Z")\
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**Author:** ![adilld](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/cc9497/32.png) [@adilld](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/adilld)\
**Post date:** [July 4, 2017, 8:04am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/visualization-dashboard-return-no-results-found-while-discover-tab-successfully-displays-results/91729/1 "2017-07-04T08:04:26Z")

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Hello everybody,

I have a problem with Kibana: Dashboard and visualizations don't show any results!

As you can see in this screenshot, in the discover tab I get some results! Which means data exists in my index "as-\*". right? But I used a trick in order to display this data :

1. I changed the range to "Today" ==\> it shows no result found !
2. I clicked "New" button ==\> then i get my data displayed!  
Is there an other way "more proper" to get data displayed?

 ![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/b/c/bca6d71f532a03185eb72a3ab83820c88bcf07f0.png)

Then in the my dashboard (or visualization) I can't get any results!! even if the range is the same as discover tab!

 ![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/b/b/bb64d3f4a76bd670fc4eb21379edddc8b6ccb59d.png)

I restarted Kibana ==\> no changes!  
I deleted as-\* then I created it =\> no changes!

I'm stuck here ! I ll be glad if you can help me figure it out !  
Thank you very much!

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**Author:** ![weltenwort](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/weltenwort/32/53885_2.png) [@weltenwort](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/weltenwort)\
**Post date:** [July 4, 2017, 10:07am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/visualization-dashboard-return-no-results-found-while-discover-tab-successfully-displays-results/91729/2 "2017-07-04T10:07:38Z")

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Hi @adilld,

that looks like something isn't quite right in Kibana. Could you try to find the `_msearch` http requests Kibana performs in your browser's network inspector and paste their request bodies for the discover page both without results and after clicking "New"?

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**Author:** ![adilld](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/cc9497/32.png) [@adilld](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/adilld)\
**Post date:** [July 4, 2017, 12:56pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/visualization-dashboard-return-no-results-found-while-discover-tab-successfully-displays-results/91729/3 "2017-07-04T12:56:43Z")

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Hi @weltenwort  
Thank you very much for your reply.  
Sorry, but actually I didn't understand 100% of what you said! 😊  
Here you can see the \_msearch size is different (before clicking on New and after)...  
 ![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1a789d0e9a9f0e7e61a38a613af36cc0c84d7e45.png)

I can't find the request body of the \_msearch htttp request.. Where can I found it please?

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**Author:** ![weltenwort](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/weltenwort/32/53885_2.png) [@weltenwort](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/weltenwort)\
**Post date:** [July 4, 2017, 1:23pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/visualization-dashboard-return-no-results-found-while-discover-tab-successfully-displays-results/91729/4 "2017-07-04T13:23:19Z")

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If you click on each request, a details panel should open containing (among others) a "Headers" tab with a "Request Payload" section:

 ![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/2/6/26a04df89176b719dfcc43eef7de80316d9042c7.png)

It could help to diagnose this problem if you could copy the "Request Payload" text for both requests and paste them here.

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**Author:** ![adilld](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/cc9497/32.png) [@adilld](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/adilld)\
**Post date:** [July 4, 2017, 1:35pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/visualization-dashboard-return-no-results-found-while-discover-tab-successfully-displays-results/91729/5 "2017-07-04T13:35:37Z")

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Thank you ,

Here is the 1st one : (before)

 ![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/7/9/7934516118b5154b3117c322fd3a2fb4e6da0b42.png)

{"index":["as-2017.07.03"],"ignore\_unavailable":true,"preference":1499175168023}  
{"size":500,"sort":[{"@timestamp":{"order":"desc","unmapped\_type":"boolean"}}],"query":{"bool":{"must":[{"query\_string":{"analyze\_wildcard":true,"query":"_"}},{"range":{"@timestamp":{"gte":1499065200000,"lte":1499076000000,"format":"epoch\_millis"}}}],"must\_not":[]}},"\_source":{"excludes":[]},"aggs":{"2":{"date\_histogram":{"field":"@timestamp","interval":"5m","time\_zone":"Europe/Berlin","min\_doc\_count":1}}},"stored\_fields":["_"],"script\_fields":{},"docvalue\_fields":["@timestamp"],"highlight":{"pre\_tags":["@kibana-highlighted-field@"],"post\_tags":["@/kibana-highlighted-field@"],"fields":{"_":{"highlight\_query":{"bool":{"must":[{"query\_string":{"analyze\_wildcard":true,"query":"_","all\_fields":true}},{"range":{"@timestamp":{"gte":1499065200000,"lte":1499076000000,"format":"epoch\_millis"}}}],"must\_not":}}}},"fragment\_size":2147483647}}

2nd one : (after)

 ![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/c/b/cb8a80ac94b8dd8ece5694d69879f1e7056273ec.png)

{"index":["as-2017.07.03"],"ignore\_unavailable":true,"preference":1499175168023}  
{"size":500,"sort":[{"@timestamp":{"order":"desc","unmapped\_type":"boolean"}}],"\_source":{"excludes":},"aggs":{"2":{"date\_histogram":{"field":"@timestamp","interval":"5m","time\_zone":"Europe/Berlin","min\_doc\_count":1}}},"query":{"bool":{"must":[{"match\_all":{}},{"range":{"@timestamp":{"gte":1499065200000,"lte":1499076000000,"format":"epoch\_millis"}}}],"must\_not":}},"stored\_fields":["_"],"script\_fields":{},"docvalue\_fields":["@timestamp"],"highlight":{"pre\_tags":["@kibana-highlighted-field@"],"post\_tags":["@/kibana-highlighted-field@"],"fields":{"_":{"highlight\_query":{"bool":{"must":[{"match\_all":{}},{"range":{"@timestamp":{"gte":1499065200000,"lte":1499076000000,"format":"epoch\_millis"}}}],"must\_not":}}}},"fragment\_size":2147483647}}

Thank you in advance

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**Author:** ![weltenwort](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/weltenwort/32/53885_2.png) [@weltenwort](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/weltenwort)\
**Post date:** [July 5, 2017, 9:05am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/visualization-dashboard-return-no-results-found-while-discover-tab-successfully-displays-results/91729/6 "2017-07-05T09:05:29Z")

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Thank you for providing that, @adilld.

It seems the first query tries to match the empty string while the second matches everything (as expected):

 ![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/a/8/a84c284efb39be7a9b94cdbadde002846fe0e593.png)

How do you navigate to that first broken discover view. Are you using some bookmark or link from an external website?

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**Author:** ![adilld](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/cc9497/32.png) [@adilld](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/adilld)\
**Post date:** [July 6, 2017, 8:09am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/visualization-dashboard-return-no-results-found-while-discover-tab-successfully-displays-results/91729/7 "2017-07-06T08:09:52Z")

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I'm using google chrome as a browser.  
To navigate to the discover view I use a direct link "ipServer:port/app/kibana#/discover" !  
I tried ipServer:port but same problem... other browsers =\> same problem...

I can give u some clarifications :

- I'm using a reverse proxy (nginx) but I think the problem is not coming from this one!
- i'm using a searchnode (client). Maybe searchnode doesn't work as expected ?

Thank you @weltenwort

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**Author:** ![weltenwort](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/weltenwort/32/53885_2.png) [@weltenwort](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/weltenwort)\
**Post date:** [July 6, 2017, 10:57am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/visualization-dashboard-return-no-results-found-while-discover-tab-successfully-displays-results/91729/8 "2017-07-06T10:57:18Z")

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Does the link you are using contain anything like `query:(query_string:(analyze_wildcard:!t,query:''))` in the url parameters?

Does the problem also occur if you leave off the `#/discover` when initially accessing Kibana?

> i'm using a searchnode (client). Maybe searchnode doesn't work as expected ?

I do not understand what you mean by "searchnode".

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**Author:** ![adilld](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/cc9497/32.png) [@adilld](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/adilld)\
**Post date:** [July 12, 2017, 8:01am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/visualization-dashboard-return-no-results-found-while-discover-tab-successfully-displays-results/91729/9 "2017-07-12T08:01:07Z")

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Hello @weltenwort,

Finally I've found the solution of the problem. Actually, On my index pattern, they were a lot of conflicts and that's why Kibana failed to show the vizualisations ..

I deleted all the index, fixed my conf files of Logstash and now it's fine!

Thank you @weltenwort for your help

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**Author:** ![weltenwort](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/weltenwort/32/53885_2.png) [@weltenwort](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/weltenwort)\
**Post date:** [July 12, 2017, 12:49pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/visualization-dashboard-return-no-results-found-while-discover-tab-successfully-displays-results/91729/10 "2017-07-12T12:49:39Z")

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That is good to know, thank you for reporting back.

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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:** [August 9, 2017, 12:49pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/visualization-dashboard-return-no-results-found-while-discover-tab-successfully-displays-results/91729/11 "2017-08-09T12:49:48Z")

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