Elasticsearch caps an index at 1000 mapped fields, and dynamic JSON reaches it quickly
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The index.mapping.total_fields.limit setting defaults to 1000. Indexing documents whose keys vary per document, such as a metrics payload keyed by customer id or an object holding arbitrary user attributes, adds a mapping entry for every distinct key, and once the limit is reached indexing fails with: Limit of total fields [1000] has been exceeded.
Raising the limit is possible as a dynamic index setting, but the mapping lives in cluster state on every node, so a mapping with tens of thousands of fields makes cluster state updates slow and can destabilise the elected master. The structural fix is to stop the explosion: set dynamic to false or strict on the offending object so unknown keys are stored but not mapped, or map that subtree as a flattened field so it occupies a single mapping entry.
Source: https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/mapping-settings-limit.html
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