# Query string length limit
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/query-string-length-limit/16972
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [April 12, 2014, 1:51am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/query-string-length-limit/16972 "2014-04-12T01:51:38Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@Robbie](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Robbie)
#### Post date: [April 12, 2014, 1:51am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/query-string-length-limit/16972/1 "2014-04-12T01:51:38Z")
Hi,
Could you clarify if there is a length limitation on the query string in
ElasticSearch? Specifically, if I have a query such as below, will there be
any issues? What is the max length that can be provided and is it
configurable?
Thanks!
{
"query\_string" : {
"fields" : ["content"],
"query" : "this OR that OR abc OR ........\<20000 characters\> OR thus",
}
}
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### Author:  [@vineeth\_mohan\_2](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/vineeth_mohan_2)
#### Post date: [April 12, 2014, 12:46pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/query-string-length-limit/16972/2 "2014-04-12T12:46:45Z")
Hello Robbie ,
There is a limit on the query length or rather query terms.
Default value is 1024 , you can change it using the following -
index:
query:
bool:
max\_clause\_count: 10240
Thanks
Vineeth
On Sat, Apr 12, 2014 at 7:21 AM, Robbie [pherur@ciphercloud.com](mailto:pherur@ciphercloud.com) wrote:
> Hi,
> Could you clarify if there is a length limitation on the query string in
> Elasticsearch? Specifically, if I have a query such as below, will there be
> any issues? What is the max length that can be provided and is it
> configurable?
>
> Thanks!
>
> {
> "query\_string" : {
> "fields" : ["content"],
> "query" : "this OR that OR abc OR ........\<20000 characters\> OR thus",
> }
> }
>
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2017, 1:36am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/query-string-length-limit/16972/3 "2017-07-06T01:36:16Z")