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 numbe…

Determining Size of A Document

Jasonespo (JasonE) April 12, 2019, 10:07am 5

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:

Is this field the requirement for the _size field to work?

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