# Data too large error
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/data-too-large-error/19003
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [July 31, 2014, 9:22am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/data-too-large-error/19003 "2014-07-31T09:22:28Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@Rhys\_Campbell](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Rhys_Campbell)
#### Post date: [July 31, 2014, 9:22am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/data-too-large-error/19003/1 "2014-07-31T09:22:28Z")
I occasionally get the following error in Kibana from elasticsearch
\*1. \*
_Oops!ElasticsearchException[org.elasticsearch.common.breaker.CircuitBreakingException:Data
too large, data for field [@timestamp] would be larger than limit
of[639015321/609.4mb]]_
I even get this when searching for \<5 min of data through the Kibana log
stash search. It will disappear and reappear for the reason apparent to me.
My total data size is not that big yet.
Elastic search has been left on the default of splitting the indices by
day. The current size in 168M for today.
Any hints?
Cheers,.
Rhys
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### Author:  [@spinscale](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/spinscale)
#### Post date: [August 4, 2014, 9:08am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/data-too-large-error/19003/2 "2014-08-04T09:08:10Z")
Hey,
in order for kibana to work, elasticsearch needs to load all @timestamp
values into memory. This exception tries to tell the user, that loading
this into memory would result in an Out-of-Memory exception, so
elasticsearch aborts this request. You could start elasticsearch with more
memory and see if it works.
--Alex
On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 11:22 AM, Rhys Campbell \<
[rhys.james.campbell@gmail.com](mailto:rhys.james.campbell@gmail.com)\> wrote:
> I occasionally get the following error in Kibana from elasticsearch
>
> \*1. \*
>
> _Oops!ElasticsearchException[org.elasticsearch.common.breaker.CircuitBreakingException:Data
> too large, data for field [@timestamp] would be larger than limit
> of[639015321/609.4mb]]_
>
> I even get this when searching for \<5 min of data through the Kibana log
> stash search. It will disappear and reappear for the reason apparent to me.
> My total data size is not that big yet.
>
> Elastic search has been left on the default of splitting the indices by
> day. The current size in 168M for today.
>
> Any hints?
>
> Cheers,.
>
> Rhys
>
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### Author:  [@spuder](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/spuder)
#### Post date: [April 22, 2015, 3:36pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/data-too-large-error/19003/3 "2015-04-22T15:36:17Z")
Did you figure this out? I'm running into the same problem.
On Thursday, July 31, 2014 at 3:22:28 AM UTC-6, Rhys Campbell wrote:
> I occasionally get the following error in Kibana from elasticsearch
>
> \*1. \*
>
> _Oops!ElasticsearchException[org.elasticsearch.common.breaker.CircuitBreakingException:Data
> too large, data for field [@timestamp] would be larger than limit
> of[639015321/609.4mb]]_
>
> I even get this when searching for \<5 min of data through the Kibana log
> stash search. It will disappear and reappear for the reason apparent to me.
> My total data size is not that big yet.
>
> Elastic search has been left on the default of splitting the indices by
> day. The current size in 168M for today.
>
> Any hints?
>
> Cheers,.
>
> Rhys
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### Author:  [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)
#### Post date: [April 22, 2015, 9:57pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/data-too-large-error/19003/4 "2015-04-22T21:57:29Z")
This original thread is nearly a year old! You'd be better off starting a
new one 🙂
On 23 April 2015 at 01:36, Spencer Owen [owenspencer@gmail.com](mailto:owenspencer@gmail.com) wrote:
> Did you figure this out? I'm running into the same problem.
>
> On Thursday, July 31, 2014 at 3:22:28 AM UTC-6, Rhys Campbell wrote:
>
> > I occasionally get the following error in Kibana from elasticsearch
> >
> > \*1. \*
> >
> > _Oops!ElasticsearchException[org.elasticsearch.common.breaker.CircuitBreakingException:Data
> > too large, data for field [@timestamp] would be larger than limit
> > of[639015321/609.4mb]]_
> >
> > I even get this when searching for \<5 min of data through the Kibana log
> > stash search. It will disappear and reappear for the reason apparent to me.
> > My total data size is not that big yet.
> >
> > Elastic search has been left on the default of splitting the indices by
> > day. The current size in 168M for today.
> >
> > Any hints?
> >
> > Cheers,.
> >
> > Rhys
> >
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2017, 12:18am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/data-too-large-error/19003/5 "2017-07-06T00:18:11Z")