In that case you can just count the bytes in the _source field.  As I said
before just adding those up won't give you all the space taken up by the
whole shard but it'll give you some idea of how much space Lucene uses.

Nik

On Wed, Dec 10, 2014 at 7:58 AM, Jojo Juju <tv.in.con...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Compressed size of a document on disk would be enough. We use store level
> compression not the per document.
> Would this be then actually possible?
>
> Thanks
>
> On Wednesday, December 10, 2014 1:27:49 PM UTC+1, Nikolas Everett wrote:
>>
>> What are you looking to measure?  The indexes don't really have a per
>> document size because they, well, are indexes. The documents do taken up
>> some space on disk but they are compressed.
>> On Dec 10, 2014 6:02 AM, "Jojo Juju" <tv.in....@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I'm fairly new to ES and I wonder if there is a way to query size (in
>>> bytes) of a single document, not average.
>>>
>>> There was similar post https://groups.google.com/d/
>>> msg/elasticsearch/N83Q-K_jK34/gYmbQSRn82kJ
>>>
>>> which was was not answered. Did anyone ever encountered need for that
>>> and possibly help how can I do it?
>>>
>>> Ta
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