# Index settings total\_fields.limit still exist?

**URL:** <https://forum.opensearch.org/t/index-settings-total-fields-limit-still-exist/12407>\
**Category:** Index Management\
**Tags:** configure\
**Created:** [February 7, 2023, 3:31pm UTC](https://forum.opensearch.org/t/index-settings-total-fields-limit-still-exist/12407 "2023-02-07T15:31:26Z")\
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**Author:** ![Remi](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.opensearch.org/remi/32/4846_2.png) [@Remi](https://forum.opensearch.org/u/Remi)\
**Post date:** [February 7, 2023, 3:31pm UTC](https://forum.opensearch.org/t/index-settings-total-fields-limit-still-exist/12407/1 "2023-02-07T15:31:26Z")

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Hello,

**Versions** (relevant - OpenSearch/Dashboard/Server OS/Browser):

OpenSearch v2.3

**Describe the issue** :

I don’t find in the doc how to increase the index.mapping.total\_field.limit (as we did in ElasticSearch) so my question is more : Do we still need to worry about the index mapping total field limit ? If yes, a documentation exist about this ? or the ElasticSearch documentation is still valid with OpenSearch 2.3 concerning this ?

**Configuration** :

“settings” : {  
“index” : {  
“mapping” : {  
“total\_fields” : {  
“limit” : “1000”  
}  
},  
},  
}

Thank you in advance for your help

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**Author:** ![AESthetix256](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.opensearch.org/aesthetix256/32/4680_2.png) [@AESthetix256](https://forum.opensearch.org/u/AESthetix256)\
**Post date:** [February 7, 2023, 3:55pm UTC](https://forum.opensearch.org/t/index-settings-total-fields-limit-still-exist/12407/2 "2023-02-07T15:55:39Z")

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Hey @Remi,

yes the limit still exists. I can’t find it as well (but currently looking this up on mobile, so who knows), I’ve found this thread talking about the limit:

> [@Setting index.mapping.total\_fields.limit to a higher value each time a new index is created](https://forum.opensearch.org/t/setting-index-mapping-total-fields-limit-to-a-higher-value-each-time-a-new-index-is-created/10935):
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> Hi, we are running OpenSearch 1.1. At the beginning of every month a new index gets created. We have a problem where the default 1000 fields per index is too low for our needs. We would like to set this value to 1500 and have this applied every month automatically. From what I’ve read in the documentation it seemed like this could be done by altering the index template by adding: "settings": { "index" : { "mapping" : { "total\_fields" : { "limit" : "1500"…

I have updated my limit for an index as well.  
But great question if we would still have to use the Elastic Docs for this

BR, Andreas