From free-text searches to field-level and regex searches, there are tons of options, and this selection is amongst the reasons that people opt for the ELK Stack in the first place. As implied in the opening statement above, some Kibana searches are going to crash Elasticsearch in sure circumstances. The latter is the extra common reason for seeing the above message, so open the Kibana configuration file and make positive to define the IP and port of the Elasticsearch instance you want Kibana to join with.
