# Request error: circuit\_breaking\_exception, \[parent\] Data too large

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/request-error-circuit-breaking-exception-parent-data-too-large/277026>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [June 25, 2021, 8:10am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/request-error-circuit-breaking-exception-parent-data-too-large/277026 "2021-06-25T08:10:15Z")\
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**Author:** ![kwoxer](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/kwoxer/32/74809_2.png) [@kwoxer](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/kwoxer)\
**Post date:** [June 25, 2021, 8:10am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/request-error-circuit-breaking-exception-parent-data-too-large/277026/1 "2021-06-25T08:10:15Z")

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We are using Elastic Cloud and some times getting this message here.

Why does this happen? Is the index to big or is it the instance that is too slow?

> Request error: circuit\_breaking\_exception, [parent] Data too large, data for [\<http\_request\>] would be [416504610/397.2mb], which is larger than the limit of [410412646/391.3mb], real usage: [416481600/397.1mb], new bytes reserved: [23010/22.4kb], usages [request=0/0b, fielddata=9846/9.6kb, in\_flight\_requests=32908/32.1kb, model\_inference=0/0b, accounting=1678516/1.6mb]

Specs:

- Elastic Cloud
- 3 instances (minimal)
- 338 shards
- single index

 ![grafik](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/f/8/f880f2df22f69b57c7f3beb8e18b98b6c8c2bb41.png)

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [June 28, 2021, 12:10am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/request-error-circuit-breaking-exception-parent-data-too-large/277026/2 "2021-06-28T00:10:50Z")

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Can you open the inspect part for that particular visualisation and copy the query it uses into Dev Tools and see if it happens there as well?

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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 26, 2021, 12:11am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/request-error-circuit-breaking-exception-parent-data-too-large/277026/3 "2021-07-26T00:11:45Z")

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