# Limiting queries on ES cluster

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/limiting-queries-on-es-cluster/88879>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [June 9, 2017, 6:47pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/limiting-queries-on-es-cluster/88879 "2017-06-09T18:47:19Z")\
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**Author:** ![vikvan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/8c91f0/32.png) [@vikvan](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/vikvan)\
**Post date:** [June 9, 2017, 6:47pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/limiting-queries-on-es-cluster/88879/1 "2017-06-09T18:47:19Z")

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Hello,  
I am interested in a feature which can limit queries on an Elasticsearch 5.x. With the current integrations and/or plugins, will it be possible to achieve this? And if i use a security plugin for authentication, can we query ES for no. of requests that an individual user made

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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:** [June 10, 2017, 12:16am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/limiting-queries-on-es-cluster/88879/2 "2017-06-10T00:16:53Z")

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There's no way to do this at the moment, you'd have to build something external to ES to do it.

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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:** [July 8, 2017, 12:17am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/limiting-queries-on-es-cluster/88879/3 "2017-07-08T00:17:07Z")

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