diff --git a/docs/canvas/canvas-function-reference.asciidoc b/docs/canvas/canvas-function-reference.asciidoc
index ece0ab657ea5bd..8cc7f64adc3a51 100644
--- a/docs/canvas/canvas-function-reference.asciidoc
+++ b/docs/canvas/canvas-function-reference.asciidoc
@@ -567,7 +567,7 @@ Default: `"-_index:.kibana"`
 |`number`
 |The number of documents to retrieve. For better performance, use a smaller data set.
 
-Default: `100`
+Default: `1000`
 
 |`fields`
 |`string`
diff --git a/x-pack/legacy/plugins/canvas/canvas_plugin_src/functions/server/esdocs.ts b/x-pack/legacy/plugins/canvas/canvas_plugin_src/functions/server/esdocs.ts
index 57df9aee6057f2..118353d6f52fd6 100644
--- a/x-pack/legacy/plugins/canvas/canvas_plugin_src/functions/server/esdocs.ts
+++ b/x-pack/legacy/plugins/canvas/canvas_plugin_src/functions/server/esdocs.ts
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ export function esdocs(): ExpressionFunction<'esdocs', Filter, Arguments, any> {
       },
       count: {
         types: ['number'],
-        default: 100,
+        default: 1000,
         help: argHelp.count,
       },
       fields: {