# Throttling search queries on Kibana or via API

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/throttling-search-queries-on-kibana-or-via-api/363262>\
**Category:** Elastic Search\
**Created:** [July 17, 2024, 9:36am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/throttling-search-queries-on-kibana-or-via-api/363262 "2024-07-17T09:36:26Z")\
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**Author:** ![hjazz6](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/hjazz6/32/79007_2.png) [@hjazz6](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/hjazz6)\
**Post date:** [July 17, 2024, 9:36am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/throttling-search-queries-on-kibana-or-via-api/363262/1 "2024-07-17T09:36:26Z")

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Hi,

I am facing issues where users query the ES (version 8.8.0) via the API using a script at high frequency (i.e. one immediately after the previous one completes), and as a result, the JVM heap usage was constantly at a high level (60+%), and when it was around 75%, I started getting the error below.

`circuit_breaking_exception: [parent] Data too large, data for [<http_request>] would be [32620387928/30.3gb], which is larger than the limit of [31621696716/29.4gb], real usage: [32620387928/30.3gb], new bytes reserved: [0/0b], usages [eql_sequence=0/0b, fielddata=24272253421/22.6gb, request=0.0b, inflight_requests=0/0b, model_inference=0.0b]`

I was wondering if there is a way to throttle/limit the queries (be it on Kibana or via API), or some buffering mechanism, so as to not overwhelm the ES with too many queries.

Thank you.

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**Author:** ![Kathleen\_DeRusso](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/kathleen_derusso/32/132039_2.png) [@Kathleen\_DeRusso](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Kathleen_DeRusso)\
**Post date:** [July 18, 2024, 7:26pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/throttling-search-queries-on-kibana-or-via-api/363262/2 "2024-07-18T19:26:51Z")

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Hey there @hjazz6, my suggestion would be to implement client side throttling if possible.

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**Author:** ![hjazz6](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/hjazz6/32/79007_2.png) [@hjazz6](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/hjazz6)\
**Post date:** [July 19, 2024, 3:45am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/throttling-search-queries-on-kibana-or-via-api/363262/3 "2024-07-19T03:45:12Z")

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Is client-side throttling on an app-by-app basis, i.e. not something I can configure on ES?

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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:** [August 16, 2024, 3:46am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/throttling-search-queries-on-kibana-or-via-api/363262/4 "2024-08-16T03:46:06Z")

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