# Erroneous number of documents in the index cannot exceed 2147483519 message? **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [August 21, 2019, 5:06pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/erroneous-number-of-documents-in-the-index-cannot-exceed-2147483519-message/196167 "2019-08-21T17:06:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Todd\_Sayers](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/todd_sayers/32/45838_2.png) [@Todd\_Sayers](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Todd_Sayers)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2019, 5:06pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/erroneous-number-of-documents-in-the-index-cannot-exceed-2147483519-message/196167/1 "2019-08-21T17:06:29Z")
I cannot start one of my Elasticsearch nodes. It says, "number of documents in the index cannot exceed 2147483519." However, using the "\_cat/count" API call, I'm not able to find any indices that have two billion documents. Regardless, I need to fix the underlying issue and restore my cluster. I simply cannot find the root cause of the issue. FWIW, Kibana-\>health also does not show any index of that size. ---
**Author:** ![Bernt\_Rostad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3ab097/32.png) [@Bernt\_Rostad](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Bernt_Rostad)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2019, 6:18pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/erroneous-number-of-documents-in-the-index-cannot-exceed-2147483519-message/196167/2 "2019-08-21T18:18:01Z")
> [@Todd\_Sayers](#): > > I'm not able to find any indices that have two billion documents. You may want to read [this thread](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/lucene-max-documents-limit/34761) regarding nested documents. ---
**Author:** ![Todd\_Sayers](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/todd_sayers/32/45838_2.png) [@Todd\_Sayers](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Todd_Sayers)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2019, 7:00pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/erroneous-number-of-documents-in-the-index-cannot-exceed-2147483519-message/196167/3 "2019-08-21T19:00:30Z")
Thanks for this suggestion. I do see variables that are "nested." E.g., flow.client\_geo\_location (from Elastiflow)... but no "documents" that are nested. I don't know if this is the same thing. My Googling (i.e., online searches) has been ineffective. If you (or anyone else) are able to offer additional suggestions... well, they'll be appreciated. The majority of my indices aren't terribly large. In an effort to "get going," we've deleted our largest indices and are now using a mere 1TB of storage. Help? ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2019, 7:00pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/erroneous-number-of-documents-in-the-index-cannot-exceed-2147483519-message/196167/4 "2019-09-18T19:00:35Z")
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