# What is "Query Length"?
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-is-query-length/307835
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [June 22, 2022, 5:59am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-is-query-length/307835 "2022-06-22T05:59:59Z")
**Posts on this page:** 11
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### Author:  [@minzeycat](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/minzeycat)
#### Post date: [June 22, 2022, 5:59am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-is-query-length/307835/1 "2022-06-22T05:59:59Z")
Hi all, I'm wondering what query length is referring to in this limit guide (it is set to 128)? [Limits | Elastic App Search Documentation [8.2] | Elastic](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/app-search/current/limits.html)
I am having a hard time understanding what part of the query is limited to 128. We are running Elasticsearch 7.9 (not 7.1 as I wrote earlier), is there any guidance as to what the default value for query length limit for version 7.9?
I'm running a search query in this format and it's succeeding despite some of these product id's being longer than 128 characters:
```auto
curl -X POST http://localhost:8080/index/_search -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{
"query": {
"bool" : {
"filter" : {
"term": {
"category": "clothing"
},
},
"filter" : {
"terms" : {
"product_id" :[
"9de53bbf-2a65-49a1-8257-46029089804a"... (1000 of these)
]}}}}
```
Thanks in advance
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [June 22, 2022, 6:00am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-is-query-length/307835/2 "2022-06-22T06:00:00Z")
Elasticsearch 7.1 is [EOL](https://www.elastic.co/support/eol) and no longer supported. Please upgrade ASAP.
(This is an automated response from your friendly Elastic bot. Please report this post if you have any suggestions or concerns :elasticheart: )
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### Author:  [@RabBit\_BR](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/RabBit_BR)
#### Post date: [June 22, 2022, 1:44pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-is-query-length/307835/3 "2022-06-22T13:44:11Z")
Can you give more details about the query and the exception?
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### Author:  [@minzeycat](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/minzeycat)
#### Post date: [June 22, 2022, 5:54pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-is-query-length/307835/4 "2022-06-22T17:54:07Z")
Thanks. I don't have an exception but the query is essentially "get me all things that 1. have clothing as their category 2. whose id is in this list of 1000 ids". I hoped that I captured this in the code snippet above.
My question is just what is "query length" in the limits page. I wasn't sure what that configuration refers to, thanks.
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### Author:  [@minzeycat](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/minzeycat)
#### Post date: [June 22, 2022, 6:02pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-is-query-length/307835/5 "2022-06-22T18:02:10Z")
Also we are running 7.9 and not 7.1.
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### Author:  [@RabBit\_BR](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/RabBit_BR)
#### Post date: [June 22, 2022, 8:33pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-is-query-length/307835/6 "2022-06-22T20:33:50Z")
Maybe this doc about [Search Settings](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/search-settings.html)
If you user Terms Query, read [this](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/query-dsl-terms-query.html#terms-top-level-params).
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### Author:  [@minzeycat](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/minzeycat)
#### Post date: [June 22, 2022, 9:22pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-is-query-length/307835/7 "2022-06-22T21:22:42Z")
Many many thanks!
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### Author:  [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)
#### Post date: [June 22, 2022, 10:53pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-is-query-length/307835/8 "2022-06-22T22:53:09Z")
> [@minzeycat](#):
>
> Also we are running 7.9 and not 7.1.
7.9 is still [EOL](https://www.elastic.co/support/eol), you should be looking to upgrade ASAP.
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### Author:  [@minzeycat](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/minzeycat)
#### Post date: [June 23, 2022, 4:17pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-is-query-length/307835/9 "2022-06-23T16:17:38Z")
Yup thanks!
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### Author:  [@minzeycat](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/minzeycat)
#### Post date: [June 23, 2022, 4:18pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-is-query-length/307835/10 "2022-06-23T16:18:22Z")
To close the gap, it turns out I'm not using App Search so this question is not applicable to my use case.
I am guessing query length makes more sense if you're an app search user and it's very clear what that means?
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 21, 2022, 4:18pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-is-query-length/307835/11 "2022-07-21T16:18:51Z")
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