AZURE FHIR Bundle : The number of entries in the bundle exceeded the configured limit of 500 - How can we increase the limit

Neeraj Shrivastava 141

We are trying to load FHIR Bundle file, however getting error as The number of entries in the bundle exceeded the configured limit of 500.

How can we increase the Bundle Size

Azure FHIR documentation says Bundle size - Each bundle is limited to 500 items

However there is no reference to how to increase this limit or an alternative solution to load data exceeding this limit without having to split the file in smaller chunks which is not possible for us as the file size from source will continue to vary.

Neeraj Shrivastava 141 Reputation points

2023-03-13T18:48:37.1166667+00:00

@GeethaThatipatri-MSFT Hi Geetha, Can you please help earlier you have helped us with a FHIR Bundle related question

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GeethaThatipatri-MSFT 29,477 Reputation points Microsoft Employee

2023-03-15T01:20:19.1233333+00:00
@Neeraj Shrivastava

The FHIR bundle size limit is 500 resources. As you are loading the Synthea data, you can use FHIR bulk loader github repository, which splits the bundles into smaller chunks.

FHIR bulk loader git repository should be helpful to load the data. you don't need to upload using POSTMAN

Can you share how you are loading this volume of Synthea data, is it for testing purposes? are you aware of AHDS , and why choosing Azure API for FHIR over AHDS?

Regards

Geetha
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GeethaThatipatri-MSFT 29,477 Reputation points Microsoft Employee

2023-03-16T15:25:14.2+00:00

@Neeraj Shrivastava Did you have the chance to check the above reply, please let us know if you find the above reply useful.

Regards

Geetha

Neeraj Shrivastava 141 Reputation points

2023-03-16T15:29:42.3833333+00:00

Thank you very much Geetha, Yes I am indeed looking at FHIRImporter now to solve my problem and bulk load FHIR bundles
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JimmySalian-2011 42,166 Reputation points

2023-03-13T18:56:33.2766667+00:00

Hi Neeraj,

The service limit is 500 as per Microsoft and if you want to increase it you will need to raise a support ticket with the Microsoft backend team - https://azure.microsoft.com/en-ca/support/create-ticket/

Hope this helps.

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Neeraj Shrivastava 141 Reputation points

2023-03-13T19:00:01.85+00:00

Thank you very much, do I need to specify the max limit for Bundle size or can it be set to infinite
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Neeraj Shrivastava 141 Reputation points

2023-03-13T19:11:31.89+00:00

Thank you, Can you please let me know when we log the ticket what option\product i need to select
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GeethaThatipatri-MSFT 29,477 Reputation points Microsoft Employee

2023-03-13T20:20:34.8866667+00:00

@Neeraj Shrivastava As @JimmySalian-2011 mentioned That is the maximum configurable limit for bundle size. Can you please help understand what is your scenario, to load more than 500 resource types per bundle?

You mentioned as a file from the source, are you importing the data periodically?

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Geetha

Neeraj Shrivastava 141 Reputation points

2023-03-14T02:41:58.0166667+00:00

Thank you for the response Gita @GeethaThatipatri-MSFT

Here is the explanation of my requirement:-

Right now we are in development and testing phase

1.) I have generated FHIR Bundle files using Synthea tool, these files are huge and contains records exceeding Bundle size limit of 500 items and for that I wanted to know how to increase the size limit, As per Jimmy's suggestion I have logged an incident with Support to increase this limit to upto 200,000. Hopefully that should solve my problem.

2.) However I do have another challenge, I need to load as good as 200 synthea FHIR Bundle files and posting them manually using POSTMAN is going to be very hectic. Do you know if I can run Azure FHIR API by specifying file(s) in the parameter, I tried that in Postman but did not work. Any suggestion will be greatly helpful.

3.) we do have some customers who would be partnering with us and they might as well provide FHIR Bundle files from their production environment so we need to make sure this issue is resolved.
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