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[[spaces-settings-kb]]
=== 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

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| `xpack.spaces.enabled`
  | Set to `true` (default) to enable Spaces in {kib}.
    This setting is deprecated. Starting in 8.0, it will not be possible to disable this plugin.

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

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