# Fields count in elasticsearch indice
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/fields-count-in-elasticsearch-indice/258138
**Category:** Beats
**Tags:** filebeat
**Created:** [December 9, 2020, 2:23pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/fields-count-in-elasticsearch-indice/258138 "2020-12-09T14:23:39Z")
**Posts on this page:** 11
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### Author:  [@malcolm666](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/malcolm666)
#### Post date: [December 9, 2020, 2:23pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/fields-count-in-elasticsearch-indice/258138/1 "2020-12-09T14:23:39Z")
Hi.
I have elasticsearch, Grafana and some beats deployed in k8s. Version is 7.6.1.
There are some fields from my configuration:
```auto
# env values
- env:
- name: cluster.name
value: k8s-logs
- name: node.name
valueFrom:
fieldRef:
apiVersion: v1
fieldPath: metadata.name
- name: discovery.seed_hosts
value: es-cluster-0.elasticsearch,es-cluster-1.elasticsearch,es-cluster-2.elasticsearch
- name: cluster.initial_master_nodes
value: es-cluster-0,es-cluster-1,es-cluster-2
- name: ES_JAVA_OPTS
value: -Xms7g -Xmx7g
- name: ELASTIC_PASSWORD
valueFrom:
secretKeyRef:
key: password
name: elasticsearch-password
- name: http.max_header_size
value: 20000kb
- name: xpack.security.enabled
value: "true"
- name: xpack.security.transport.ssl.enabled
value: "true"
- name: xpack.security.transport.ssl.verification_mode
value: certificate
- name: xpack.security.transport.ssl.keystore.path
value: /usr/share/elasticsearch/config/elastic-certificates.p12
- name: xpack.security.transport.ssl.truststore.path
value: /usr/share/elasticsearch/config/elastic-certificates.p12
- name: xpack.monitoring.collection.enabled
value: "true"
- name: xpack.monitoring.elasticsearch.collection.enabled
value: "false"
# resources
resources:
limits:
cpu: "3"
memory: 14Gi
requests:
cpu: "3"
memory: 14Gi
```
All works good. We have one index pattern (filebeat-\*) in kibana with huge mount of fields (62000 fields)
Kibana works very slow when opening setting of this index pattern and when opening the dashboard that uses this index pattern.
So... Please, help me understand the issue. Is it "normal" to have so many fields in index pattern?
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### Author:  [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)
#### Post date: [December 9, 2020, 10:37pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/fields-count-in-elasticsearch-indice/258138/2 "2020-12-09T22:37:08Z")
What version(s) of the stack are you using?
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### Author:  [@malcolm666](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/malcolm666)
#### Post date: [December 10, 2020, 6:31am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/fields-count-in-elasticsearch-indice/258138/3 "2020-12-10T06:31:24Z")
I wrote it in my message 🙂
7.6.1
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### Author:  [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)
#### Post date: [December 10, 2020, 6:32am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/fields-count-in-elasticsearch-indice/258138/4 "2020-12-10T06:32:02Z")
For the entire stack - Elasticsearch, Kibana and beats?
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### Author:  [@malcolm666](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/malcolm666)
#### Post date: [December 10, 2020, 6:32am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/fields-count-in-elasticsearch-indice/258138/5 "2020-12-10T06:32:31Z")
Sure
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### Author:  [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)
#### Post date: [December 10, 2020, 6:33am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/fields-count-in-elasticsearch-indice/258138/6 "2020-12-10T06:33:02Z")
Ok, what modules are you loading in Beats?
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### Author:  [@malcolm666](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/malcolm666)
#### Post date: [December 10, 2020, 6:37am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/fields-count-in-elasticsearch-indice/258138/7 "2020-12-10T06:37:38Z")
For filebeat I am using two versions - 6.8.12 (deployed outside of k8s) and 7.6.1 (inside of k8s).
So much fields are generated in 6.8.12 version of filebeat. This filebeat uses log as input without modules.
The problem is not with beat. I am just asking about fields count.
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### Author:  [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)
#### Post date: [December 10, 2020, 6:40am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/fields-count-in-elasticsearch-indice/258138/8 "2020-12-10T06:40:17Z")
Yeah but Filebeat is generating these fields, so it's a relevant area.
It's not really normal to have an index with that many fields. I don't know if this situation improved in later versions, but let me move this over to Beats and see if anyone can help.
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### Author:  [@malcolm666](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/malcolm666)
#### Post date: [December 10, 2020, 6:41am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/fields-count-in-elasticsearch-indice/258138/9 "2020-12-10T06:41:36Z")
Thanks! Will wait for answer
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### Author:  [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)
#### Post date: [December 10, 2020, 6:42am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/fields-count-in-elasticsearch-indice/258138/10 "2020-12-10T06:42:52Z")
🤘
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [January 7, 2021, 6:42am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/fields-count-in-elasticsearch-indice/258138/11 "2021-01-07T06:42:57Z")
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