# Query Hit limit

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/query-hit-limit/238336>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [June 23, 2020, 8:06pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/query-hit-limit/238336 "2020-06-23T20:06:51Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![th3Hopper](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/th3hopper/32/70750_2.png) [@th3Hopper](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/th3Hopper)\
**Post date:** [June 23, 2020, 8:06pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/query-hit-limit/238336/1 "2020-06-23T20:06:51Z")

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I have index 2M document.

If I query

`GET indexName/_search?q=email:info@yahoo.com`

It's giving me this result:-

```auto
"took" : 12,
  "timed_out" : false,
  "_shards" : {
    "total" : 1,
    "successful" : 1,
    "skipped" : 0,
    "failed" : 0
  },
  "hits" : {
    "total" : {
      "value" : 10000,
      "relation" : "gte"
    },

```

**My question is what does this hits value means? Is this mean it's the only query from 1000, not from all my 2M documents?**

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**Author:** ![dadoonet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dadoonet/32/137187_2.png) [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)\
**Post date:** [June 23, 2020, 9:05pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/query-hit-limit/238336/2 "2020-06-23T21:05:37Z")

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It means that your query matched more than 10000 documents.

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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 21, 2020, 9:05pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/query-hit-limit/238336/3 "2020-07-21T21:05:38Z")

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