# A way to know memory usage by individual fields in elasticsearch index?
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/a-way-to-know-memory-usage-by-individual-fields-in-elasticsearch-index/64947
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [November 3, 2016, 8:40pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/a-way-to-know-memory-usage-by-individual-fields-in-elasticsearch-index/64947 "2016-11-03T20:40:12Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@dhondup](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dhondup)
#### Post date: [November 3, 2016, 8:40pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/a-way-to-know-memory-usage-by-individual-fields-in-elasticsearch-index/64947/1 "2016-11-03T20:40:12Z")
Is there a way to know the memory usage of a specific field in an index?
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### Author:  [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)
#### Post date: [November 3, 2016, 8:42pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/a-way-to-know-memory-usage-by-individual-fields-in-elasticsearch-index/64947/2 "2016-11-03T20:42:12Z")
What sort of memory usage?
Fielddata?
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### Author:  [@dhondup](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dhondup)
#### Post date: [November 3, 2016, 8:59pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/a-way-to-know-memory-usage-by-individual-fields-in-elasticsearch-index/64947/3 "2016-11-03T20:59:00Z")
Maybe I was saying it wrong, I'm curious to know if there is a way to know how much memory is being used by the value of a specific field name in an index using Sense console.
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### Author:  [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)
#### Post date: [November 3, 2016, 9:02pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/a-way-to-know-memory-usage-by-individual-fields-in-elasticsearch-index/64947/4 "2016-11-03T21:02:02Z")
Unless you have fielddata enabled, fields themselves do not directly use memory.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 5, 2017, 10:06pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/a-way-to-know-memory-usage-by-individual-fields-in-elasticsearch-index/64947/5 "2017-07-05T22:06:46Z")