# Scroll api performance is very slow

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/scroll-api-performance-is-very-slow/110482>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [December 6, 2017, 9:40am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/scroll-api-performance-is-very-slow/110482 "2017-12-06T09:40:22Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![kanchan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/8797f3/32.png) [@kanchan](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/kanchan)\
**Post date:** [December 6, 2017, 9:40am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/scroll-api-performance-is-very-slow/110482/1 "2017-12-06T09:40:22Z")

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Hi Team,

I used scroll api to get records more than 10000.I am trying to fetch approx 4 lack records and size parameter set to 50 thousand. but the performance is very slow.could you let me know any other api or any other alternative.

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**Author:** ![colings86](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/colings86/32/44960_2.png) [@colings86](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/colings86)\
**Post date:** [December 6, 2017, 10:46am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/scroll-api-performance-is-very-slow/110482/2 "2017-12-06T10:46:18Z")

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Please do not post the same question multiple times. It appears you have already asked this question in another topic: [Scroll api performance is very poor](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/scroll-api-performance-is-very-poor/110495). This is a community forum so please be patient when waiting for answers.

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**Author:** ![colings86](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/colings86/32/44960_2.png) [@colings86](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/colings86)\
**Post date:** [December 6, 2017, 10:46am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/scroll-api-performance-is-very-slow/110482/3 "2017-12-06T10:46:23Z")

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