# Erroneous number of documents in the index cannot exceed 2147483519 message?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/erroneous-number-of-documents-in-the-index-cannot-exceed-2147483519-message/196167>\
**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")\
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**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")

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> [@Todd\_Sayers](#):
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> 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.

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