# Audit Events for Elasticsearch

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/audit-events-for-elasticsearch/250885>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [October 4, 2020, 6:06am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/audit-events-for-elasticsearch/250885 "2020-10-04T06:06:42Z")\
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**Author:** ![shrikantgulia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c68b51/32.png) [@shrikantgulia](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/shrikantgulia)\
**Post date:** [October 4, 2020, 6:06am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/audit-events-for-elasticsearch/250885/1 "2020-10-04T06:06:43Z")

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Hello,

Can someone explain me what is the difference between the Elasticsearch Audit Events and Kibana audit Events.  
I observed that my elasticsearch audit event file is much larger its is like 18 GB or much more than that per day.

Regards  
Shrikant

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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:** [November 1, 2020, 6:06am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/audit-events-for-elasticsearch/250885/2 "2020-11-01T06:06:52Z")

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