# How to cancel/stop current long running search request in Elasticsearch?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-cancel-stop-current-long-running-search-request-in-elasticsearch/146101>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [August 27, 2018, 4:11am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-cancel-stop-current-long-running-search-request-in-elasticsearch/146101 "2018-08-27T04:11:31Z")\
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**Author:** ![sanjaykanani](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/sanjaykanani/32/25488_2.png) [@sanjaykanani](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/sanjaykanani)\
**Post date:** [August 27, 2018, 4:11am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-cancel-stop-current-long-running-search-request-in-elasticsearch/146101/1 "2018-08-27T04:11:32Z")

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My index has almost 50 million records in it and sometime It will take to much time to execute with a search request  
So can we cancel current running search request?

{  
query:{  
search request:  
{  
filter criteria:{  
//taking long time to execute  
}  
}  
}  
}

so how we can cancel particular request executing in ES server?

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [August 27, 2018, 4:12am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-cancel-stop-current-long-running-search-request-in-elasticsearch/146101/2 "2018-08-27T04:12:43Z")

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You cannot at this stage, it's something we're working towards though.

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**Author:** ![sanjaykanani](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/sanjaykanani/32/25488_2.png) [@sanjaykanani](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/sanjaykanani)\
**Post date:** [August 27, 2018, 4:24am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-cancel-stop-current-long-running-search-request-in-elasticsearch/146101/3 "2018-08-27T04:24:16Z")

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So will it be possible in next version of ES?

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [August 27, 2018, 4:34am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-cancel-stop-current-long-running-search-request-in-elasticsearch/146101/4 "2018-08-27T04:34:42Z")

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I don't know when it's due.

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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:** [September 24, 2018, 4:34am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-cancel-stop-current-long-running-search-request-in-elasticsearch/146101/5 "2018-09-24T04:34:50Z")

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