# How to limit the amount of submitted documents? **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [February 9, 2016, 10:37pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-limit-the-amount-of-submitted-documents/41325 "2016-02-09T22:37:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![brand0m](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f04885/32.png) [@brand0m](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/brand0m)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2016, 10:37pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-limit-the-amount-of-submitted-documents/41325/1 "2016-02-09T22:37:27Z")
hello, in my project I have (index and type): test\_index/rare\_events structure. those rare\_events are submitted to ES very rarely and generally I would like to store for instance only last 10 of them. how to limit in ES the amount of documents during mapping creation for rare\_events type? what is the correct approach? thanks in advance for all hints -- brand0m ---
**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:** [February 9, 2016, 10:43pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-limit-the-amount-of-submitted-documents/41325/2 "2016-02-09T22:43:43Z")
The only approach is for you to handle that, there is no way for ES to do it. ---
**Author:** ![brand0m](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f04885/32.png) [@brand0m](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/brand0m)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2016, 10:47pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-limit-the-amount-of-submitted-documents/41325/3 "2016-02-09T22:47:45Z")
ok, I see. what about blocking write operations for rare\_events type? is it possible in ES to set a kind of "read only" mode for particular type? ---
**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:** [February 9, 2016, 10:48pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-limit-the-amount-of-submitted-documents/41325/4 "2016-02-09T22:48:09Z")
No, only for an index. ---
**Author:** ![brand0m](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f04885/32.png) [@brand0m](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/brand0m)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2016, 10:51pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-limit-the-amount-of-submitted-documents/41325/5 "2016-02-09T22:51:13Z")
ok, I see. would it be reasonable to request such features? 1. set limit for documents per type 2. allow to switch between rw/ro modes for particular types what do you think? 🙂 ---
**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:** [February 9, 2016, 10:52pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-limit-the-amount-of-submitted-documents/41325/6 "2016-02-09T22:52:38Z")
1, maybe but only for an index. 2, no. Chances are types will be removed at some point in the future, there are some large changes to them in 2.X that prevent mixing different types in a single index. ---
**Author:** ![brand0m](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f04885/32.png) [@brand0m](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/brand0m)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2016, 10:56pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-limit-the-amount-of-submitted-documents/41325/7 "2016-02-09T22:56:20Z")
hmmm... what about handling those two cases by some scripts on ES side? this should be possible (I hope) ---
**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:** [February 9, 2016, 11:03pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-limit-the-amount-of-submitted-documents/41325/8 "2016-02-09T23:03:02Z")
Maybe, but I can't help with that sorry, it's not my area. ---
**Author:** ![brand0m](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f04885/32.png) [@brand0m](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/brand0m)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2016, 11:08pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-limit-the-amount-of-submitted-documents/41325/9 "2016-02-09T23:08:55Z")
thanks for help anyway ---
**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, 11:17pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-limit-the-amount-of-submitted-documents/41325/10 "2017-07-05T23:17:48Z")