# Increasing index.mapping.total\_fields.limit still produces error with "1000"

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/increasing-index-mapping-total-fields-limit-still-produces-error-with-1000/125817>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [March 27, 2018, 8:38pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/increasing-index-mapping-total-fields-limit-still-produces-error-with-1000/125817 "2018-03-27T20:38:09Z")\
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**Author:** ![scotttam](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/scotttam/32/10080_2.png) [@scotttam](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/scotttam)\
**Post date:** [March 27, 2018, 8:38pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/increasing-index-mapping-total-fields-limit-still-produces-error-with-1000/125817/1 "2018-03-27T20:38:09Z")

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I've increased my index.mapping.total\_fields.limit from 1000 to 2000 and confirmed the changes:

```
"my_index" : {
    "settings" : {
      "index" : {
        "mapping" : {
          "total_fields" : {
            "limit" : "2000"
          }
        },
...

```

However, I am still seeing errors, albeit less frequent "Limit of total fields [1000] in index [media] has been exceeded". My suspicion is that the error message is incorrect. Can someone confirm this? I'm running 5.5.

Thanks,

Scott

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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:** [April 24, 2018, 8:38pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/increasing-index-mapping-total-fields-limit-still-produces-error-with-1000/125817/2 "2018-04-24T20:38:13Z")

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