# Index.mapping.total\_fields.limit setting

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-mapping-total-fields-limit-setting/190552>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [July 15, 2019, 1:58pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-mapping-total-fields-limit-setting/190552 "2019-07-15T13:58:30Z")\
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**Author:** ![Derrick](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/derrick/32/49944_2.png) [@Derrick](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Derrick)\
**Post date:** [July 15, 2019, 1:58pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-mapping-total-fields-limit-setting/190552/1 "2019-07-15T13:58:30Z")

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Hi,

I have a lot of documents to be saved to ES, the document is pretty big and complex, I cannot limit the number of field.

so the question is that how to set index.mapping.total\_fields.limit to unlimited, or which factor affects this limit. for example: indexed, doc value etc.

thanks

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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:** [August 12, 2019, 1:58pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-mapping-total-fields-limit-setting/190552/2 "2019-08-12T13:58:39Z")

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