# Big terms ignored in terms aggregation?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/big-terms-ignored-in-terms-aggregation/60092>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [September 8, 2016, 3:51pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/big-terms-ignored-in-terms-aggregation/60092 "2016-09-08T15:51:57Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![dooblem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ba9def/32.png) [@dooblem](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dooblem)\
**Post date:** [September 8, 2016, 3:51pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/big-terms-ignored-in-terms-aggregation/60092/1 "2016-09-08T15:51:57Z")

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Hello all,

I designed the following simple data table count, in order to count the H\_message string field.

 ![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/2X/e/e8435d3ca7221368061753fb3a5b3ce350f88769.png)

After some hours of searching, I realized that only "short" fields are taken in account.

When the H\_message string field is too long, it is simply ignored.

Any idea ? Kibana bug or my fault ?

Thanks in advance,  
Marc

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**Author:** ![spalger](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/spalger/32/14092_2.png) [@spalger](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/spalger)\
**Post date:** [September 8, 2016, 10:28pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/big-terms-ignored-in-terms-aggregation/60092/2 "2016-09-08T22:28:54Z")

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The data that Kibana shows is powered by elasticsearch, Kibana doesn't impose any limits on the data that would cause this. I'll push this question over to the elasticsearch category for that reason.

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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:** [July 5, 2017, 10:21pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/big-terms-ignored-in-terms-aggregation/60092/3 "2017-07-05T22:21:43Z")

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