# Total Indices size per node drops every midnight and back to normal after an hour

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/total-indices-size-per-node-drops-every-midnight-and-back-to-normal-after-an-hour/289541>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Tags:** elastic-stack-monitoring\
**Created:** [November 18, 2021, 8:08am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/total-indices-size-per-node-drops-every-midnight-and-back-to-normal-after-an-hour/289541 "2021-11-18T08:08:17Z")\
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**Author:** ![binmats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3da27b/32.png) [@binmats](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/binmats)\
**Post date:** [November 18, 2021, 8:08am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/total-indices-size-per-node-drops-every-midnight-and-back-to-normal-after-an-hour/289541/1 "2021-11-18T08:08:17Z")

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Hi ,  
We have 3 master and 3 data node clusters. We are monitoring the stats with metricbeat. We use elastic 7.9.3 version and metricbeat 7.11

This is the metric: Elasticsearch.node.stats.indices.store.size.bytes

We have seen total Indices size per node drops every midnight and back to normal after an hour. We use daily indexing patterns for index.

Not seeing any errors on logs. Is it normal? Can you please help us to explain this behavior?

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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:** [December 16, 2021, 8:09am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/total-indices-size-per-node-drops-every-midnight-and-back-to-normal-after-an-hour/289541/2 "2021-12-16T08:09:04Z")

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