# Increasing http.max\_content\_length

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/increasing-http-max-content-length/188022>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [June 28, 2019, 10:15am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/increasing-http-max-content-length/188022 "2019-06-28T10:15:11Z")\
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**Author:** ![pdimitri](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b5a626/32.png) [@pdimitri](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/pdimitri)\
**Post date:** [June 28, 2019, 10:15am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/increasing-http-max-content-length/188022/1 "2019-06-28T10:15:11Z")

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Hi.

I have a CSV file of size 1.3GB which I would like to create a Kibana dashboard for. However, when uploading data, Kibana only allows a maximum file size of 100MB.

I have gone into the `elasticsearch.yml` config file and added `http.max_content_length: 1.5gb` (added - it wasn't there to begin with) and also into the `kibana.yml` config file and added `xpack.reporting.csv.maxSizeBytes: 1500000000`.

However when I now visit `localhost:5601` nothing has changed - it still tells me that the upload limit is 100MB.

Am I doing something wrong?

Thanks in advance.

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**Author:** ![Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/christian_dahlqvist/32/4617_2.png) [@Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Christian_Dahlqvist)\
**Post date:** [June 29, 2019, 6:59am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/increasing-http-max-content-length/188022/2 "2019-06-29T06:59:08Z")

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The answer here is to use a tool like Logstash and process the file line by line instead of sending it to Elasticsearch all at once. Have a look at [this introduction to Logstash](https://www.elastic.co/blog/a-practical-introduction-to-logstash).

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**Author:** ![pdimitri](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b5a626/32.png) [@pdimitri](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/pdimitri)\
**Post date:** [July 1, 2019, 8:07am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/increasing-http-max-content-length/188022/3 "2019-07-01T08:07:00Z")

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Thank you, I will look into this.

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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 29, 2019, 8:07am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/increasing-http-max-content-length/188022/4 "2019-07-29T08:07:01Z")

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