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Matthias Wilhelm

Manager (E), Software Engineering

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Kibana cuts dashboard load time by up to 25% - here's the polling strategy behind it
Kibana

May 22, 2026

Kibana cuts dashboard load time by up to 25% - here's the polling strategy behind it

Find out how Kibana uses continuous polling and browser-side HTTP/2 detection to cut dashboard load times by up to 25%, with automatic fallback on HTTP/1.

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By: Drew Tate and Matthias Wilhelm

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