Hi All , It is a theoretical question. I am indexed almost 2 GB of data in elasticsearch with default Shards & Replicas . Logs indexed from Feb 1 to July 15 year . Index name is with respect to date . ie in logstash " index => "xyz-%{+YYYY.MM.dd}" " This logs total size is only 2 GB …

[image] rijinmp: Why Data directory size is 16 GB? It depends on what is indexed. What is the mapping, etc... Lot of things are involved.

Elasticsearch Data Directory size anomaly

dadoonet (David Pilato) July 26, 2018, 11:17am 2

It depends on what is indexed. What is the mapping, etc...
Lot of things are involved.

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