# How to increase byte size in processing in logstash?

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-increase-byte-size-in-processing-in-logstash/71327
**Category:** Logstash
**Created:** [January 12, 2017, 7:24am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-increase-byte-size-in-processing-in-logstash/71327 "2017-01-12T07:24:27Z")
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### Author: ![jsvd](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/jsvd/32/6203_2.png) [@jsvd](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jsvd)
#### Post date: [January 12, 2017, 11:57am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-increase-byte-size-in-processing-in-logstash/71327/4 "2017-01-12T11:57:09Z")

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This is a characteristic/protection on the elasticsearch side, for more information you can see a similar discuss topic: [UTF8 encoding is longer than the max length 32766](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/utf8-encoding-is-longer-than-the-max-length-32766/816)

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