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=== Spaces settings in {kib}
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<titleabbrev>Spaces settings</titleabbrev>
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By default, Spaces is enabled in Kibana, and you can secure Spaces using 
roles when Security is enabled.

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[[spaces-settings]]
==== Spaces settings

`xpack.spaces.enabled`::
Set to `true` (default) to enable Spaces in {kib}.

`xpack.spaces.maxSpaces`::
The maximum amount of Spaces that can be used with this instance of Kibana. Some operations
in Kibana return all spaces using a single `_search` from Elasticsearch, so this must be
set lower than the `index.max_result_window` in Elasticsearch.
Defaults to `1000`.