# Disabling circuit breakers in ES7

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/disabling-circuit-breakers-in-es7/231770>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [May 8, 2020, 4:06pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/disabling-circuit-breakers-in-es7/231770 "2020-05-08T16:06:23Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Faiz\_Ahmed\_Mushtak\_H](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/faiz_ahmed_mushtak_h/32/47387_2.png) [@Faiz\_Ahmed\_Mushtak\_H](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Faiz_Ahmed_Mushtak_H)\
**Post date:** [May 8, 2020, 4:06pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/disabling-circuit-breakers-in-es7/231770/1 "2020-05-08T16:06:23Z")

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What's the right way to disable circuit breakers in elasticsearch 7?

`indices.breaker.type` be set to none or `indices.breaker.total.use_real_memory` be set to false?

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**Author:** ![Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/christian_dahlqvist/32/4617_2.png) [@Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Christian_Dahlqvist)\
**Post date:** [May 11, 2020, 6:32am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/disabling-circuit-breakers-in-es7/231770/2 "2020-05-11T06:32:54Z")

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Why would you want to disable curcuit breakers? They are there to protect the cluster. Would you rather have the node crash?

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [June 8, 2020, 6:33am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/disabling-circuit-breakers-in-es7/231770/3 "2020-06-08T06:33:01Z")

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