# Kibana - limit size aggregation

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-limit-size-aggregation/173967>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [March 26, 2019, 4:00pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-limit-size-aggregation/173967 "2019-03-26T16:00:13Z")\
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**Author:** ![Francisca\_Lima](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/edb3f5/32.png) [@Francisca\_Lima](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Francisca_Lima)\
**Post date:** [March 26, 2019, 4:00pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-limit-size-aggregation/173967/1 "2019-03-26T16:00:14Z")

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Hello,

When I am doing a sum bucket aggregation, I am facing a problem because I want to sum every bucket, but I have to define size which normally is limited to 10 000. What I can do to sum every bucket?

Thank you,  
Francisca

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**Author:** ![LizaD](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/lizad/32/51074_2.png) [@LizaD](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/LizaD)\
**Post date:** [March 26, 2019, 9:12pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-limit-size-aggregation/173967/2 "2019-03-26T21:12:11Z")

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@Bargs what is best to do here?

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**Author:** ![Bargs](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/bargs/32/5429_2.png) [@Bargs](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Bargs)\
**Post date:** [March 26, 2019, 9:36pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-limit-size-aggregation/173967/3 "2019-03-26T21:36:57Z")

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The max number of buckets allowed can be controlled with a dynamic cluster setting named `search.max_buckets`. You could increase this limit if you really need to. But the terms agg is not design to return _all_ values of a high cardinality field so you should consider performance implications like memory usage in the cluster, payload size, and response time.

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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 23, 2019, 9:36pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-limit-size-aggregation/173967/4 "2019-04-23T21:36:58Z")

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