# Determining Size of A Document **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [April 12, 2019, 9:30am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/determining-size-of-a-document/176594 "2019-04-12T09:30:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Jasonespo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/898d66/32.png) [@Jasonespo](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Jasonespo)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2019, 9:31am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/determining-size-of-a-document/176594/1 "2019-04-12T09:31:00Z")
Hi all, How am I supposed to determine the size of an individual document? Can I use dev tools in some way to query the size of a document with a specific \_id? I know I can get the size of the entire index with a: `GET _cat/indices` I can also get an average by just dividing the size by the number of events, but each of my events are different sizes obviously. I was just wondering if there was something similar for individual 'events' or 'documents'? ---
**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:** [April 12, 2019, 9:48am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/determining-size-of-a-document/176594/2 "2019-04-12T09:48:58Z")
This might be what you are looking for: [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/plugins/current/mapper-size.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/plugins/current/mapper-size.html) ---
**Author:** ![Jasonespo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/898d66/32.png) [@Jasonespo](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Jasonespo)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2019, 10:00am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/determining-size-of-a-document/176594/3 "2019-04-12T10:00:18Z")
Hi @dadoonet, Thanks for the response. Do you know how this is done when using elastic cloud rather than hosting it myself? Jason ---
**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:** [April 12, 2019, 10:03am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/determining-size-of-a-document/176594/4 "2019-04-12T10:03:21Z")
You can add the plugin in elastic cloud. I just checked it: ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/2/a/2ac49c4f583d979df3032d5674046f45ba8abc08.jpeg) Click on `Edit` button in your deployment and check for `Elasticsearch plugins and settings`. ---
**Author:** ![Jasonespo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/898d66/32.png) [@Jasonespo](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Jasonespo)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2019, 10:07am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/determining-size-of-a-document/176594/5 "2019-04-12T10:07:58Z")
@dadoonet Perfect thank you. And with regards to the \_source metadata field, I don't currently have that appearing on my documents however it is enabled: ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/0/a/0a16a57234d37a95a31279ea31045b9092352bb7.png) Is this field the requirement for the \_size field to work? ---
**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:** [April 12, 2019, 10:19am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/determining-size-of-a-document/176594/6 "2019-04-12T10:19:13Z")
yes it is. The doc says: > The mapper-size plugin provides the `_size` meta field which, when enabled, indexes the size in bytes of the original `_source` field. No source. No size. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2019, 10:19am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/determining-size-of-a-document/176594/7 "2019-05-10T10:19:15Z")
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