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audience: administrator
components:
  - eventing
function: how-to
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# Configure event source defaults

This topic describes how to configure defaults for Knative event sources. You can configure event sources depending on how they generate events.

## Configure defaults for PingSource

PingSource is an event source that produces events with a fixed payload on a specified cron schedule. For how to create a new PingSource, see [Creating a PingSource object](../../eventing/sources/ping-source/README.md).
For the available parameters, see [PingSource reference](../../eventing/sources/ping-source/reference.md).

In addition to the parameters that you can configure in the PingSource resource, there is a global ConfigMap called `config-ping-defaults`.
This ConfigMap allows you to change the maximum amount of data that the PingSource adds to the CloudEvents it produces.

The `data-max-size` parameter allows you to set the maximum number of bytes allowed to be sent for a message excluding any base64 decoding. The default value, `-1`, sets no limit for data.

```
apiVersion: v1
kind: ConfigMap
metadata:
  name: config-ping-defaults
  namespace: knative-eventing
data:
  data-max-size: -1
```

You can edit this ConfigMap by running the command:

```
kubectl edit cm config-ping-defaults -n knative-eventing
```
