Why doesn't kibana display all the search results? - elasticsearch

Question

Here is my search query:
GET /bank/_search?q=*&sort=account_number:asc&pretty
which matches all of the 1000 docs in the bank index:
health status index uuid pri rep docs.count docs.deleted store.size pri.store.size
yellow open bank LRl6fcZsSR6a0BMxIAQzIA 1 1 1000 0 414.3kb 414.3kb
green open .kibana_task_manager 2hiY91XzQQKAzmnXhpQLTA 1 0 2 0 12.8kb 12.8kb
green open .kibana_1 G4vY0_JASzqERwKlbqMqAg 1 0 4 0 14.7kb 14.7kb
yellow open customer 0B2gsBy3Rp-5vkMFhto-Wg 1 1 2 0 6.7kb 6.7kb
Below are my search results. Under "hits" at the top, you can see that there were 1000 hits, which is what I expected (all the _docs). Yet, kibana only displays 9 of the hits. Where are the rest?
{
"took" : 4,
"timed_out" : false,
"_shards" : {
"total" : 1,
"successful" : 1,
"skipped" : 0,
"failed" : 0
},
"hits" : {
"total" : {
"value" : 1000,
"relation" : "eq"
},
"max_score" : null,
"hits" : [
{
"_index" : "bank",
"_type" : "_doc",
"_id" : "0",
"_score" : null,
"_source" : {
"account_number" : 0,
"balance" : 16623,
"firstname" : "Bradshaw",
"lastname" : "Mckenzie",
"age" : 29,
"gender" : "F",
"address" : "244 Columbus Place",
"employer" : "Euron",
"email" : "bradshawmckenzie#euron.com",
"city" : "Hobucken",
"state" : "CO"
},
"sort" : [
0
]
},
{
"_index" : "bank",
"_type" : "_doc",
"_id" : "1",
"_score" : null,
"_source" : {
"account_number" : 1,
"balance" : 39225,
"firstname" : "Amber",
"lastname" : "Duke",
"age" : 32,
"gender" : "M",
"address" : "880 Holmes Lane",
"employer" : "Pyrami",
"email" : "amberduke#pyrami.com",
"city" : "Brogan",
"state" : "IL"
},
"sort" : [
1
]
},
{
"_index" : "bank",
"_type" : "_doc",
"_id" : "2",
"_score" : null,
"_source" : {
"account_number" : 2,
"balance" : 28838,
"firstname" : "Roberta",
"lastname" : "Bender",
"age" : 22,
"gender" : "F",
"address" : "560 Kingsway Place",
"employer" : "Chillium",
"email" : "robertabender#chillium.com",
"city" : "Bennett",
"state" : "LA"
},
"sort" : [
2
]
},
{
"_index" : "bank",
"_type" : "_doc",
"_id" : "3",
"_score" : null,
"_source" : {
"account_number" : 3,
"balance" : 44947,
"firstname" : "Levine",
"lastname" : "Burks",
"age" : 26,
"gender" : "F",
"address" : "328 Wilson Avenue",
"employer" : "Amtap",
"email" : "levineburks#amtap.com",
"city" : "Cochranville",
"state" : "HI"
},
"sort" : [
3
]
},
{
"_index" : "bank",
"_type" : "_doc",
"_id" : "4",
"_score" : null,
"_source" : {
"account_number" : 4,
"balance" : 27658,
"firstname" : "Rodriquez",
"lastname" : "Flores",
"age" : 31,
"gender" : "F",
"address" : "986 Wyckoff Avenue",
"employer" : "Tourmania",
"email" : "rodriquezflores#tourmania.com",
"city" : "Eastvale",
"state" : "HI"
},
"sort" : [
4
]
},
{
"_index" : "bank",
"_type" : "_doc",
"_id" : "5",
"_score" : null,
"_source" : {
"account_number" : 5,
"balance" : 29342,
"firstname" : "Leola",
"lastname" : "Stewart",
"age" : 30,
"gender" : "F",
"address" : "311 Elm Place",
"employer" : "Diginetic",
"email" : "leolastewart#diginetic.com",
"city" : "Fairview",
"state" : "NJ"
},
"sort" : [
5
]
},
{
"_index" : "bank",
"_type" : "_doc",
"_id" : "6",
"_score" : null,
"_source" : {
"account_number" : 6,
"balance" : 5686,
"firstname" : "Hattie",
"lastname" : "Bond",
"age" : 36,
"gender" : "M",
"address" : "671 Bristol Street",
"employer" : "Netagy",
"email" : "hattiebond#netagy.com",
"city" : "Dante",
"state" : "TN"
},
"sort" : [
6
]
},
{
"_index" : "bank",
"_type" : "_doc",
"_id" : "7",
"_score" : null,
"_source" : {
"account_number" : 7,
"balance" : 39121,
"firstname" : "Levy",
"lastname" : "Richard",
"age" : 22,
"gender" : "M",
"address" : "820 Logan Street",
"employer" : "Teraprene",
"email" : "levyrichard#teraprene.com",
"city" : "Shrewsbury",
"state" : "MO"
},
"sort" : [
7
]
},
{
"_index" : "bank",
"_type" : "_doc",
"_id" : "8",
"_score" : null,
"_source" : {
"account_number" : 8,
"balance" : 48868,
"firstname" : "Jan",
"lastname" : "Burns",
"age" : 35,
"gender" : "M",
"address" : "699 Visitation Place",
"employer" : "Glasstep",
"email" : "janburns#glasstep.com",
"city" : "Wakulla",
"state" : "AZ"
},
"sort" : [
8
]
},
{
"_index" : "bank",
"_type" : "_doc",
"_id" : "9",
"_score" : null,
"_source" : {
"account_number" : 9,
"balance" : 24776,
"firstname" : "Opal",
"lastname" : "Meadows",
"age" : 39,
"gender" : "M",
"address" : "963 Neptune Avenue",
"employer" : "Cedward",
"email" : "opalmeadows#cedward.com",
"city" : "Olney",
"state" : "OH"
},
"sort" : [
9
]
}
]
}
}

Answer 1

Okay:
hits.hits – actual array of search results (defaults to first 10 documents)
You can control the size of what kibana outputs like this:
GET /bank/_search
{
"query": { "match_all": {} },
"size": 50
}
If size isn't specified:
GET /bank/_search
{
"query": { "match_all": {} },
}
then size defaults to 10.

Answer 2

By default the size parameter is set to a value of 10 and therefore you are able to see only 10 results. To get more results you can adjust this parameter according to you needs. Sometimes it would be better to use size parameter along with from parameter to get results page wise as in when not whole data is required in one go.
So either you can use "size": 1000 or you can set "from": 0, "size": 100 to get first 100 results and the keep on sending same query and just change the value of from param on each request. For e.g. to get next 100 results set "from": 100.
To get all 1000 results add size param as below:
{
"query":{
// your query here
},
"size": 1000
}
You can read more on from/size here.
As a query parameter you can add size as
GET /bank/_search?q=*&sort=account_number:asc&size=1000&pretty