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FIELDDATA Data is too large


I open kibana and do a search and i get the error where shards failed. I looked in the elasticsearch.log file and I saw this error:

org.elasticsearch.common.breaker.CircuitBreakingException: [FIELDDATA] Data too large, data for [@timestamp] would be larger than limit of [622775500/593.9mb]

Is there any way to increase that limit of 593.9mb?


Solution

  • You can try to increase the fielddata circuit breaker limit to 75% (default is 60%) in your elasticsearch.yml config file and restart your cluster:

    indices.breaker.fielddata.limit: 75%
    

    Or if you prefer to not restart your cluster you can change the setting dynamically using:

    curl -XPUT localhost:9200/_cluster/settings -d '{
      "persistent" : {
        "indices.breaker.fielddata.limit" : "40%" 
      }
    }'
    

    Give it a try.