# Alias is causing field limit exceed error

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/alias-is-causing-field-limit-exceed-error/121161>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [February 23, 2018, 4:32am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/alias-is-causing-field-limit-exceed-error/121161 "2018-02-23T04:32:59Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 8\
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**Author:** ![piyush](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecb155/32.png) [@piyush](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/piyush)\
**Post date:** [February 23, 2018, 4:32am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/alias-is-causing-field-limit-exceed-error/121161/1 "2018-02-23T04:32:59Z")

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Hi Team,  
I am getting "Fields [1000]" limit error but strange things is, only when i created alias over index. Why so?

In Kibana, if i search for Index settings i can see only 47 fields. but a pattern (alias) is showing 982 fields.

\*My program is for Blue-Green deployment and for testing i commented it such a way that, now it is creating new index, then add alias to this index and then load JSON file. (Ideally, alias switch should happen after data load)

Thanks & Regards,

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**Author:** ![dadoonet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dadoonet/32/137187_2.png) [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)\
**Post date:** [February 23, 2018, 6:39am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/alias-is-causing-field-limit-exceed-error/121161/2 "2018-02-23T06:39:20Z")

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What gives:

```
GET /_alias/Youraliasname
```

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**Author:** ![piyush](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecb155/32.png) [@piyush](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/piyush)\
**Post date:** [February 23, 2018, 7:40pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/alias-is-causing-field-limit-exceed-error/121161/3 "2018-02-23T19:40:45Z")

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It shows that Alias is pointing to Index, PFB:

{  
"index-green": {  
"aliases": {  
"Alias-\*": {}  
}  
}  
}

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**Author:** ![dadoonet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dadoonet/32/137187_2.png) [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)\
**Post date:** [February 23, 2018, 8:02pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/alias-is-causing-field-limit-exceed-error/121161/4 "2018-02-23T20:02:58Z")

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Is that the real output ?

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**Author:** ![piyush](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecb155/32.png) [@piyush](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/piyush)\
**Post date:** [February 23, 2018, 8:04pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/alias-is-causing-field-limit-exceed-error/121161/5 "2018-02-23T20:04:43Z")

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I changed index and alias names, rest is actual.

{  
"IIIIIIII": {  
"aliases": {  
"AAAAAAAA": {}  
}  
}  
}

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**Author:** ![dadoonet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dadoonet/32/137187_2.png) [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)\
**Post date:** [February 23, 2018, 8:16pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/alias-is-causing-field-limit-exceed-error/121161/6 "2018-02-23T20:16:21Z")

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Only one line like this? Could you share the actual response ?

Can you also share the full mapping ?

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**Author:** ![piyush](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecb155/32.png) [@piyush](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/piyush)\
**Post date:** [February 23, 2018, 8:25pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/alias-is-causing-field-limit-exceed-error/121161/7 "2018-02-23T20:25:13Z")

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yes, that's the all response.

Please give me sometime, i will share mappings soon.

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [March 23, 2018, 8:25pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/alias-is-causing-field-limit-exceed-error/121161/8 "2018-03-23T20:25:17Z")

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