# Filebeat index

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-index/313849>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** filebeat\
**Created:** [September 7, 2022, 6:48am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-index/313849 "2022-09-07T06:48:01Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![Milan\_Dangol](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/milan_dangol/32/109145_2.png) [@Milan\_Dangol](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Milan_Dangol)\
**Post date:** [September 7, 2022, 6:48am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-index/313849/1 "2022-09-07T06:48:01Z")

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Greetings everyone,

I have a question regarding filebeat index. The scenarios is:

I am transferring Nginx access and error logs from filebeat to my Elasticsearch server. Is the size of filbeat index is equal to the size of access and error log?

Thank you in advance \<3

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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:** [September 7, 2022, 6:49am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-index/313849/2 "2022-09-07T06:49:09Z")

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No it won't be.  
Elasticsearch creates a number of different data structures to make querying faster, so it may add size. But then it also compresses the data.

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**Author:** ![Milan\_Dangol](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/milan_dangol/32/109145_2.png) [@Milan\_Dangol](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Milan_Dangol)\
**Post date:** [September 7, 2022, 6:55am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-index/313849/3 "2022-09-07T06:55:58Z")

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@warkolm thank you for your fast response. Would you mind elaborating more or give me some reference on this topic that i can look ?

Thank you \<3

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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:** [September 7, 2022, 7:12am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-index/313849/4 "2022-09-07T07:12:06Z")

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This is old, but the fundamentals are there [A Dive into the Elasticsearch Storage | Elastic Blog](https://www.elastic.co/blog/found-dive-into-elasticsearch-storage)

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**Author:** ![Milan\_Dangol](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/milan_dangol/32/109145_2.png) [@Milan\_Dangol](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Milan_Dangol)\
**Post date:** [September 7, 2022, 7:28am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-index/313849/5 "2022-09-07T07:28:45Z")

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Thank you for your fast and quality response @warkolm \<3

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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:** [October 5, 2022, 9:29am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-index/313849/6 "2022-10-05T09:29:10Z")

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