# How to get elastic-search's actual search-result size in terms of disk space

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-get-elastic-searchs-actual-search-result-size-in-terms-of-disk-space/37231>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [December 15, 2015, 10:47am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-get-elastic-searchs-actual-search-result-size-in-terms-of-disk-space/37231 "2015-12-15T10:47:37Z")\
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**Author:** ![mohankumar](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/mohankumar/32/31864_2.png) [@mohankumar](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/mohankumar)\
**Post date:** [December 15, 2015, 10:47am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-get-elastic-searchs-actual-search-result-size-in-terms-of-disk-space/37231/1 "2015-12-15T10:47:37Z")

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I can get the total-count of the search result. but is it possible to get the size of the result occupying elastic-search's disk memory?. Why im asking this: i need to find which type of data takes large disk space. thanks.

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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 5, 2017, 11:30pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-get-elastic-searchs-actual-search-result-size-in-terms-of-disk-space/37231/2 "2017-07-05T23:30:58Z")

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