# Stopping long term queries

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/stopping-long-term-queries/62538>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [October 8, 2016, 2:21am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/stopping-long-term-queries/62538 "2016-10-08T02:21:20Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![EuclideanSearch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c77e96/32.png) [@EuclideanSearch](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/EuclideanSearch)\
**Post date:** [October 8, 2016, 2:21am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/stopping-long-term-queries/62538/1 "2016-10-08T02:21:20Z")

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Hi, I was wondering whether there is a way (in ES 1.7 or ES 2.0) to identify/stop long running queries. I saw circuit -breaker but that seems to be regarding memory, not time. Any ideas/references/tools?

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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:** [October 8, 2016, 2:22am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/stopping-long-term-queries/62538/2 "2016-10-08T02:22:52Z")

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There's currently no way to do this. We're working towards being able to with the introduction of the task management API.

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**Author:** ![EuclideanSearch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c77e96/32.png) [@EuclideanSearch](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/EuclideanSearch)\
**Post date:** [October 17, 2016, 10:12pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/stopping-long-term-queries/62538/3 "2016-10-17T22:12:23Z")

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Thank you @warkolm!

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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 5, 2017, 10:11pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/stopping-long-term-queries/62538/4 "2017-07-05T22:11:40Z")

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