# Size Limit on elastic search

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/size-limit-on-elastic-search/182360>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [May 23, 2019, 6:54am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/size-limit-on-elastic-search/182360 "2019-05-23T06:54:43Z")\
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**Author:** ![sjabiulla](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/sjabiulla/32/48429_2.png) [@sjabiulla](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/sjabiulla)\
**Post date:** [May 23, 2019, 6:54am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/size-limit-on-elastic-search/182360/1 "2019-05-23T06:54:43Z")

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Hi,

I'm indexing my application logs to ElasticSearch and I am planning to maintain the history of logs for an year or so. Is there any size limit that I need to consider before hosting the ElasticSearch instance !!

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**Author:** ![Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/christian_dahlqvist/32/4617_2.png) [@Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Christian_Dahlqvist)\
**Post date:** [May 23, 2019, 7:15am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/size-limit-on-elastic-search/182360/2 "2019-05-23T07:15:20Z")

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The amount of data a node can hold depends on your data, how you index and map it, shard size and heap size. The amount of heap required for indexing an querying also plays a part. If you describe your data and use case you might be able to get some pointers but the best way to find out is to test.

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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:** [June 20, 2019, 7:15am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/size-limit-on-elastic-search/182360/3 "2019-06-20T07:15:22Z")

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