diff --git a/public/app/features/dataframe-import/constants.ts b/public/app/features/dataframe-import/constants.ts
index d0ae1ec0de1..e32027a5e46 100644
--- a/public/app/features/dataframe-import/constants.ts
+++ b/public/app/features/dataframe-import/constants.ts
@@ -10,4 +10,4 @@ export const acceptedFiles: Accept = {
 };
 
 //This should probably set from grafana conf
-export const maxFileSize = 1000000;
+export const maxFileSize = 500000;