# Max number of records in an Index

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/max-number-of-records-in-an-index/116984
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [January 25, 2018, 7:08am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/max-number-of-records-in-an-index/116984 "2018-01-25T07:08:11Z")
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### Author: ![aneesh](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/aneesh/32/37819_2.png) [@aneesh](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/aneesh)
#### Post date: [January 25, 2018, 7:08am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/max-number-of-records-in-an-index/116984/1 "2018-01-25T07:08:11Z")

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Hi

Is there any max limit of records(rows) in an index?  
Crores of data rows can I add to an index?

Thanks  
Aneesh

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### Author: ![dadoonet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dadoonet/32/137187_2.png) [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)
#### Post date: [January 25, 2018, 9:12am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/max-number-of-records-in-an-index/116984/2 "2018-01-25T09:12:55Z")

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IIRC you have a hard limit of 2 billions per shard.  
But I believe that might be a bad idea to have so many documents per shard though.

Why are you asking that? Is there something you want to solve?

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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: [February 22, 2018, 9:13am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/max-number-of-records-in-an-index/116984/3 "2018-02-22T09:13:21Z")

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