# Effect of extraneous analyzers or filters in settings - any negative consequences?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/effect-of-extraneous-analyzers-or-filters-in-settings-any-negative-consequences/239897>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [July 4, 2020, 5:30pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/effect-of-extraneous-analyzers-or-filters-in-settings-any-negative-consequences/239897 "2020-07-04T17:30:31Z")\
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**Author:** ![pmallela](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b782af/32.png) [@pmallela](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/pmallela)\
**Post date:** [July 4, 2020, 5:30pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/effect-of-extraneous-analyzers-or-filters-in-settings-any-negative-consequences/239897/1 "2020-07-04T17:30:32Z")

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Hi, does adding multiple analyzers/filters to the `settings` of an index use up lot of space, or add any burden on the index? (i wouldn’t think so, as it’s just configuration).

I want to keep the “settings” common across all my indices, for ease of maintainence. Even if the fields in that index don’t utilize those particular analyzers. So was just wondering if the extraneous settings are a bad idea..?

for example, i have the "light\_analyzer", "minimal\_analyzer", and "possessive\_analyzer". But i may only be using one of them in an index.

```auto
{
  "analyzer": {
    "light_analyzer": {
      "filter": ["english_stop", "light_stemmer"],
      "tokenizer": "standard",
      "type": "custom"
    },
    "minimal_analyzer": {
      "filter": ["english_stop", "minimal_stemmer"],
      "tokenizer": "standard",
      "type": "custom"
    },
    "possessive_analyzer": {
      "filter": ["english_stop", "possessive_stemmer", "minimal_stemmer"],
      "tokenizer": "standard",
      "type": "custom"
    }
  },
  "filter": {
    "english_stop": {"stopwords": "_english_", "type": "stop"},
    "minimal_stemmer": {"name": "minimal_english","type": "stemmer"},
    "possessive_stemmer": {"name": "possessive_english", "type": "stemmer"}
  },
  "normalizer": {
    "case_insensitive": {
      "filter": "lowercase"
    }
  }
}

```

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**Author:** ![pmallela](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b782af/32.png) [@pmallela](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/pmallela)\
**Post date:** [July 6, 2020, 12:34pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/effect-of-extraneous-analyzers-or-filters-in-settings-any-negative-consequences/239897/2 "2020-07-06T12:34:51Z")

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gentle bump.. in case anyone sees this

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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:** [August 3, 2020, 12:34pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/effect-of-extraneous-analyzers-or-filters-in-settings-any-negative-consequences/239897/3 "2020-08-03T12:34:55Z")

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Closed on August 3, 2020, 12:34pm UTC

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