# Is there a limit on count of roles for document level security
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-there-a-limit-on-count-of-roles-for-document-level-security/63506
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Tags:** elastic-stack-security
**Created:** [October 20, 2016, 1:04pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-there-a-limit-on-count-of-roles-for-document-level-security/63506 "2016-10-20T13:04:36Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@yehuday](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/yehuday)
#### Post date: [October 20, 2016, 1:04pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-there-a-limit-on-count-of-roles-for-document-level-security/63506/1 "2016-10-20T13:04:36Z")
I plan to implement a document level security with Shield 2.4.
the implementation suppose to support a lot of users (native) and roles.
Is there a limit on count of roles?
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### Author:  [@skearns](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/skearns)
#### Post date: [October 24, 2016, 8:04pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-there-a-limit-on-count-of-roles-for-document-level-security/63506/2 "2016-10-24T20:04:56Z")
There is no explicit limit on the number of users or roles. How many users/roles are you planning to create?
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### Author:  [@yehuday](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/yehuday)
#### Post date: [November 9, 2016, 7:44am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-there-a-limit-on-count-of-roles-for-document-level-security/63506/3 "2016-11-09T07:44:26Z")
Thanks.
I plan to create few thousands of users and roles.
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### Author:  [@skearns](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/skearns)
#### Post date: [November 9, 2016, 1:16pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-there-a-limit-on-count-of-roles-for-document-level-security/63506/4 "2016-11-09T13:16:47Z")
Great, that shouldn't be a problem at all 🙂
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2017, 1:41pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-there-a-limit-on-count-of-roles-for-document-level-security/63506/5 "2017-07-06T13:41:27Z")