# Error : circuit\_breaking\_exception

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/error-circuit-breaking-exception/274741>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [June 2, 2021, 11:23am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/error-circuit-breaking-exception/274741 "2021-06-02T11:23:23Z")\
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**Author:** ![jvidin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/da6949/32.png) [@jvidin](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jvidin)\
**Post date:** [June 2, 2021, 11:23am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/error-circuit-breaking-exception/274741/1 "2021-06-02T11:23:23Z")

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Hi all ,

Im new to elastic , im recently receiving this error with some frequency.  
I have a cluster of 3 and all indices set to shards=2 and replicas=2  
Should i look into some special setting to overpass such error ?

Thanks

```auto
{
  "error": {
    "root_cause": [
      {
        "type": "circuit_breaking_exception",
        "reason": "[parent] Data too large, data for [<http_request>] would be [1051982632/1003.2mb], which is larger than the limit of [1020054732/972.7mb], real usage: [1051982632/1003.2mb], new bytes reserved: [0/0b], usages [request=0/0b, fielddata=514930660/491mb, in_flight_requests=0/0b, model_inference=0/0b, accounting=4370464/4.1mb]",
        "bytes_wanted": 1051982632,
        "bytes_limit": 1020054732,
        "durability": "PERMANENT"
      }
    ],
    "type": "circuit_breaking_exception",
    "reason": "[parent] Data too large, data for [<http_request>] would be [1051982632/1003.2mb], which is larger than the limit of [1020054732/972.7mb], real usage: [1051982632/1003.2mb], new bytes reserved: [0/0b], usages [request=0/0b, fielddata=514930660/491mb, in_flight_requests=0/0b, model_inference=0/0b, accounting=4370464/4.1mb]",
    "bytes_wanted": 1051982632,
    "bytes_limit": 1020054732,
    "durability": "PERMANENT"
  },
  "status": 429
}

```

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [June 3, 2021, 12:07am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/error-circuit-breaking-exception/274741/2 "2021-06-03T00:07:55Z")

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What is happening when you get 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:** [July 1, 2021, 12:08am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/error-circuit-breaking-exception/274741/3 "2021-07-01T00:08:30Z")

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