# Is there a way to analyze the size consumption of single field?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-there-a-way-to-analyze-the-size-consumption-of-single-field/1918>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [June 4, 2015, 10:07am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-there-a-way-to-analyze-the-size-consumption-of-single-field/1918 "2015-06-04T10:07:43Z")\
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**Author:** ![Abhishek\_Gupta](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/abhishek_gupta/32/512_2.png) [@Abhishek\_Gupta](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Abhishek_Gupta)\
**Post date:** [June 4, 2015, 10:07am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-there-a-way-to-analyze-the-size-consumption-of-single-field/1918/1 "2015-06-04T10:07:43Z")

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When I started using es, I didn't know about the \_all field. Now I want to analyze how much memory I will be wasting due to \_all field.

I didn't want to index the complete data again as its huge.

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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 6, 2017, 12:09am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-there-a-way-to-analyze-the-size-consumption-of-single-field/1918/2 "2017-07-06T00:09:40Z")

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