# Unusual Remote File Size Rule Anomaly

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unusual-remote-file-size-rule-anomaly/375584>\
**Category:** Elastic Security\
**Created:** [March 8, 2025, 5:53am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unusual-remote-file-size-rule-anomaly/375584 "2025-03-08T05:53:07Z")\
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**Author:** ![warren.cruz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f08c70/32.png) [@warren.cruz](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warren.cruz)\
**Post date:** [March 8, 2025, 5:53am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unusual-remote-file-size-rule-anomaly/375584/1 "2025-03-08T05:53:07Z")

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Good day.

I duplicated the prebuilt rule "Unusual Remote File Size" and set out to test it.

I was able to generate an anomaly the 1st time for 1GB+. But subsequent file drops were not triggering an anomaly no matter the humongous size of the file.

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/b/7/b71636ea4f844fdab5106f4755b70dff29365e07.png)

What could be the reason?

Thanks

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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:** [April 5, 2025, 5:53am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unusual-remote-file-size-rule-anomaly/375584/2 "2025-04-05T05:53:45Z")

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