# Getting \`Query contains too many nested clauses; maxClauseCount is set to 252061\` in ES8

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/getting-query-contains-too-many-nested-clauses-maxclausecount-is-set-to-252061-in-es8/358798>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [May 6, 2024, 8:53am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/getting-query-contains-too-many-nested-clauses-maxclausecount-is-set-to-252061-in-es8/358798 "2024-05-06T08:53:58Z")\
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**Author:** ![Aditya\_Teltia](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/aditya_teltia/32/122447_2.png) [@Aditya\_Teltia](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Aditya_Teltia)\
**Post date:** [May 6, 2024, 8:53am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/getting-query-contains-too-many-nested-clauses-maxclausecount-is-set-to-252061-in-es8/358798/1 "2024-05-06T08:53:59Z")

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Hi,

We are migrating from ES7 to ES8 and while running a query on ES7 and ES8 respectively, I am getting `Query contains too many nested clauses; maxClauseCount is set to 252061` error in ES8 while it is working in ES7.  
Can someone please tell what could be the probable cause for the same.

Unable to share the query here, since it is too big.

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**Author:** ![Aditya\_Teltia](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/aditya_teltia/32/122447_2.png) [@Aditya\_Teltia](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Aditya_Teltia)\
**Post date:** [May 6, 2024, 11:23am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/getting-query-contains-too-many-nested-clauses-maxclausecount-is-set-to-252061-in-es8/358798/2 "2024-05-06T11:23:52Z")

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However the setting is  
 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/f/9/f91bd892410ec329f82a4b579c08a7b4c86ab557.png)

Not sure why it is saying "maxClauseCount is set to 252061".

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**Author:** ![gerald](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ea666f/32.png) [@gerald](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/gerald)\
**Post date:** [May 25, 2024, 1:58pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/getting-query-contains-too-many-nested-clauses-maxclausecount-is-set-to-252061-in-es8/358798/3 "2024-05-25T13:58:41Z")

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Having the same issue exactly