# Elasticsearch log size

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-log-size/163518>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [January 9, 2019, 11:23am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-log-size/163518 "2019-01-09T11:23:49Z")\
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**Author:** ![Madhukar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/aeb1de/32.png) [@Madhukar](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Madhukar)\
**Post date:** [January 9, 2019, 11:23am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-log-size/163518/1 "2019-01-09T11:23:49Z")

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Hi all,

How do we calculate the event size in Elasticsearch?

- Size of data before parsing (enrichment)
- Enrichment factor
- Size of data after enrichment
- Size of data after compression (if used best\_compression codec)

Thanks in advance.

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**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:** [January 9, 2019, 11:40am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-log-size/163518/2 "2019-01-09T11:40:42Z")

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You try it and measure with a lot of data, ie 1 million documents.  
That's the only way IMO.

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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:** [February 6, 2019, 11:40am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-log-size/163518/3 "2019-02-06T11:40:42Z")

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