# Limit query not working for me (JSON)
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/limit-query-not-working-for-me-json/42679
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [February 25, 2016, 8:13am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/limit-query-not-working-for-me-json/42679 "2016-02-25T08:13:17Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@Mathaxx](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Mathaxx)
#### Post date: [February 25, 2016, 8:13am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/limit-query-not-working-for-me-json/42679/1 "2016-02-25T08:13:17Z")
Hi,
My cluster configuration :
- 2 nodes
My index settings are :
- 3 primary shard
- 1 replica
I would like get 2 documents on each shard so I use this request :
> {
> "query": {
> "filtered": {
> "query": {
> "match\_all": {}
> },
> "filter": {
> "limit": {
> "value": 2
> }
> }
> }
> }
> }
So I suppose I should have 4 or 6 results, but I have 10 results.
> {
> "took": 1118,
> "timed\_out": false,
> "\_shards": {
> "total": 3,
> "successful": 3,
> "failed": 0
> },
> "hits": {
> "total": 50102,
> "max\_score": 1,
> "hits": [
> {
> "\_index": "index",
> "\_type": "type",
> "\_id": "AVMPH4bjGzeyhS1lrlkN",
> "\_score": 1,
> "fields": {
> "name": [
> "value"
> ]
> }
> },
> {
> "\_index": "index",
> "\_type": "type",
> "\_id": "AVMPH4brGzeyhS1lrlkP",
> "\_score": 1,
> "fields": {
> "name": [
> "value"
> ]
> }
> },
> {
> "\_index": "index",
> "\_type": "type",
> "\_id": "AVMPH4c\_GzeyhS1lrlkV",
> "\_score": 1,
> "fields": {
> "name": [
> "value"
> ]
> }
> },
> {
> "\_index": "index",
> "\_type": "type",
> "\_id": "AVMPH4dTGzeyhS1lrlkX",
> "\_score": 1,
> "fields": {
> "name": [
> "value"
> ]
> }
> },
> {
> "\_index": "index",
> "\_type": "type",
> "\_id": "AVMPH4dgGzeyhS1lrlkZ",
> "\_score": 1,
> "fields": {
> "name": [
> "value"
> ]
> }
> },
> {
> "\_index": "index",
> "\_type": "type",
> "\_id": "AVMPH4dsGzeyhS1lrlkd",
> "\_score": 1,
> "fields": {
> "name": [
> "value"
> ]
> }
> },
> {
> "\_index": "index",
> "\_type": "type",
> "\_id": "AVMPH55sGzeyhS1lrlkr",
> "\_score": 1,
> "fields": {
> "name": [
> "value"
> ]
> }
> },
> {
> "\_index": "index",
> "\_type": "type",
> "\_id": "AVMPH55xGzeyhS1lrlkt",
> "\_score": 1,
> "fields": {
> "name": [
> "value"
> ]
> }
> },
> {
> "\_index": "index",
> "\_type": "type",
> "\_id": "AVMPH56oGzeyhS1lrlky",
> "\_score": 1,
> "fields": {
> "name": [
> "value"
> ]
> }
> },
> {
> "\_index": "index",
> "\_type": "type",
> "\_id": "AVMPH3S7GzeyhS1lrlj5",
> "\_score": 1,
> "fields": {
> "name": [
> "value"
> ]
> }
> }
> ]
> }
> }
I don't understand why... if you have any idea ?
Thanks,
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### Author:  [@danielmitterdorfer](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/danielmitterdorfer)
#### Post date: [March 1, 2016, 10:11am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/limit-query-not-working-for-me-json/42679/2 "2016-03-01T10:11:14Z")
Hi,
you do not mention your Elasticsearch version but note that [limit filter is deprecated with 2.0](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/2.2/breaking_20_query_dsl_changes.html#_literal_limit_literal_filter_deprecated) and is essentially a no-op. I suspect you get 10 results because that is the default of `size`. You can use the `terminate_after` query parameter (see [docs](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/2.2/search-request-body.html)) to limit the number of results per shard:
```auto
GET /_search?terminate_after=2
{
"query": {
"match_all": {}
}
}
```
Daniel
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### Author:  [@Mathaxx](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Mathaxx)
#### Post date: [March 1, 2016, 10:48am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/limit-query-not-working-for-me-json/42679/3 "2016-03-01T10:48:54Z")
Thank you, I did not see this option.
It's perfect for me.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 5, 2017, 11:12pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/limit-query-not-working-for-me-json/42679/4 "2017-07-05T23:12:34Z")