# How to kill/cancel slow query?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-kill-cancel-slow-query/114878>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [January 10, 2018, 1:24pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-kill-cancel-slow-query/114878 "2018-01-10T13:24:32Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![liujin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/b487fb/32.png) [@liujin](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/liujin)\
**Post date:** [January 10, 2018, 1:24pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-kill-cancel-slow-query/114878/1 "2018-01-10T13:24:32Z")

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Today a user submit a query which time span is very large，and it leads to ES cluster breakdown.  
So how can i avoid this trouble？

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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:** [February 7, 2018, 1:24pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-kill-cancel-slow-query/114878/2 "2018-02-07T13:24:51Z")

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Closed on February 7, 2018, 1:24pm UTC

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