# Document/field sizing
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/document-field-sizing/20978
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [November 28, 2014, 11:11am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/document-field-sizing/20978 "2014-11-28T11:11:13Z")
**Posts on this page:** 2
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### Author:  [@Derry\_O\_Sullivan](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Derry_O_Sullivan)
#### Post date: [November 28, 2014, 11:11am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/document-field-sizing/20978/1 "2014-11-28T11:11:13Z")
Hi all,
Is there a way to get document/field size statistics for a particular index?
I currently use the indices stats API to get some information but it only
gives me #documents and store size which is an average.
e.g.:
curl -XGET '[http://localhost:9291/\_cat/indices/log\*?bytes=b](http://localhost:9291/_cat/indices/log*?bytes=b)' -s | sort |
awk '{print $2, $8/$5}'
logstash-2014.11.01 298.375 #index, average doc size
On a related note, what is the default 'compression' within ES 1.3.2 (fyi,
i'm using logstash's default template here).
Many thanks,
Derry
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2017, 12:47am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/document-field-sizing/20978/2 "2017-07-06T00:47:10Z")