# How to understand "Strings longer than the ignore\_above setting will not be indexed or stored."?

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-understand-strings-longer-than-the-ignore-above-setting-will-not-be-indexed-or-stored/269859
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [April 12, 2021, 9:55am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-understand-strings-longer-than-the-ignore-above-setting-will-not-be-indexed-or-stored/269859 "2021-04-12T09:55:56Z")
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### Author: ![light\_chen](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/light_chen/32/91791_2.png) [@light\_chen](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/light_chen)
#### Post date: [April 12, 2021, 9:55am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-understand-strings-longer-than-the-ignore-above-setting-will-not-be-indexed-or-stored/269859/1 "2021-04-12T09:55:56Z")

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I want to verify whether my understanding about the meaning that the glossary "not be indexed" and "not be stored" is right.  
I suppose "not be indexed" means that the terms analysed from the original field value will not be indexed to the underlying index(may be a SkipList or RedBlackTree) . In addition, the  
"not stored" means that the full original field value will not be stored to the index node.

Maybe bother you, i'am a student and just recently to learn ElasticSearch.

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### Author: ![dadoonet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dadoonet/32/137187_2.png) [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)
#### Post date: [April 12, 2021, 10:12am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-understand-strings-longer-than-the-ignore-above-setting-will-not-be-indexed-or-stored/269859/2 "2021-04-12T10:12:08Z")

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Welcome!

> [@light\_chen](#):
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> I suppose "not be indexed" means that the terms analysed from the original field value will not be indexed to the underlying index.

Correct.

> [@light\_chen](#):
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> In addition, the  
> "not stored" means that the full original field value will not be stored to the index node.

Correct. But note that it won't remove it from the `_source` field which is stored by default. It only applies to a given field.

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### Author: ![light\_chen](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/light_chen/32/91791_2.png) [@light\_chen](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/light_chen)
#### Post date: [April 12, 2021, 10:41am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-understand-strings-longer-than-the-ignore-above-setting-will-not-be-indexed-or-stored/269859/3 "2021-04-12T10:41:12Z")

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I got it, thanks a lot!

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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: [May 10, 2021, 10:41am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-understand-strings-longer-than-the-ignore-above-setting-will-not-be-indexed-or-stored/269859/4 "2021-05-10T10:41:50Z")

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