# Finding documents with "too many fields" **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [June 15, 2022, 6:35pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/finding-documents-with-too-many-fields/307313 "2022-06-15T18:35:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![linkerc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/13edae/32.png) [@linkerc](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/linkerc)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2022, 6:35pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/finding-documents-with-too-many-fields/307313/1 "2022-06-15T18:35:46Z")
What's the easiest way to find documents from an index that appears to have too many fields. I want to delete those documents, but there doesn't seem to be a way to easily find them. The background to how I get here. The index used to allow up to 2000 fields I believe. So any index created prior to say 7 would have documents containing up to 2000 fields without throwing errors. But now after upgrade the cluster, new documents with more than 1000 fields would throw errors. It's not a bad thing to throw errors when there are too many fields. But I can't seem to figure out an easy way to sort documents based on doc\_size, or field\_size. We disable scripting by the way. Any suggestions? ---
**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 21, 2022, 1:53am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/finding-documents-with-too-many-fields/307313/2 "2022-06-21T01:53:58Z")
My first reaction was a script might be able to do it, but without that your only option would be to grab all the docs and then do something external to Elasticsearch. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2022, 1:54am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/finding-documents-with-too-many-fields/307313/3 "2022-07-19T01:54:06Z")
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