# Why search.max\_buckets soft limit is 10000 ? What are the cons of increasing this size limit?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/why-search-max-buckets-soft-limit-is-10000-what-are-the-cons-of-increasing-this-size-limit/207190>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [November 8, 2019, 11:33pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/why-search-max-buckets-soft-limit-is-10000-what-are-the-cons-of-increasing-this-size-limit/207190 "2019-11-08T23:33:20Z")\
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**Author:** ![Quang\_D\_Tr\_n](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/quang_d_tr_n/32/54722_2.png) [@Quang\_D\_Tr\_n](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Quang_D_Tr_n)\
**Post date:** [November 9, 2019, 10:30am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/why-search-max-buckets-soft-limit-is-10000-what-are-the-cons-of-increasing-this-size-limit/207190/2 "2019-11-09T10:30:45Z")

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Not sure but if the size is greater than 100, it might possibly cause error as in [this thread](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/top-hits-aggregation-maximum-size/131350)

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