Recomendations on Managing Storage Size

Elasticsearch compresses by default and the link I provided discusses the best_compression codec that further compresses the source. Making sure data is mapped efficiently and not using the default mappings unless necessary can as the docs describe substantially reduce the size on disk.

This blog post discusses storage size and optimization. It is a bit old and refers to an older version of Elasticsearch (_all field is e.g. no longer available in newer versions), but the principles are still valid.