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Error 413 when using filter on large dashboard

  • 8 November 2018
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I have a dashboard containing 21 single tiles, and I’m trying to create a filter applying to 15 of them. Each has a separate table calculation, that can’t be avoided since columns are aggregates. When creating a new dashboard filter and selecting the tiles to update, I get the following error:



The http code for error 413 is “entity too large”. Is there a way to avoid this, or is this a request for Looker backend to improve?


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Userlevel 2

Hi there,


This error can be returned by the proxy that sits in front of the Looker server. Is your instance on-prem or hosted? If it is on-prem, you could try and increase the client_max_body_size on the proxy.


Cheers,

Adina

Userlevel 1

I hit this 413 error also.  In my case, there was an invalid filter value passed to a parameter or filter.  (There were ~40 filters also, but those can work!).  If you ever run into this, I recommend checking the Admin → Query monitor to see if there is more information on failed queries. 

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