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Mapper Size Pluginedit
The mapper-size plugin provides the _size meta field which, when enabled,
indexes the size in bytes of the original
_source field.
Installationedit
This plugin can be installed using the plugin manager:
sudo bin/elasticsearch-plugin install mapper-size
The plugin must be installed on every node in the cluster, and each node must be restarted after installation.
This plugin can be downloaded for offline install from https://artifacts.elastic.co/downloads/elasticsearch-plugins/mapper-size/mapper-size-7.0.0-alpha2.zip.
Removaledit
The plugin can be removed with the following command:
sudo bin/elasticsearch-plugin remove mapper-size
The node must be stopped before removing the plugin.