# What would be the consequences of having abusive requests? Slowness or crash?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-would-be-the-consequences-of-having-abusive-requests-slowness-or-crash/182278>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [May 22, 2019, 4:14pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-would-be-the-consequences-of-having-abusive-requests-slowness-or-crash/182278 "2019-05-22T16:14:12Z")\
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**Author:** ![nuwan](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/nuwan/32/42325_2.png) [@nuwan](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/nuwan)\
**Post date:** [May 22, 2019, 4:14pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-would-be-the-consequences-of-having-abusive-requests-slowness-or-crash/182278/1 "2019-05-22T16:14:12Z")

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seems like Kibana search limit is by default 10000. I Increated it up to 20000. This 10000 limit is set for a reason. It protects the cluster from abusively large search requests

PUT /ticker\_quote\_\*/\_settings  
{  
"index" : {  
"max\_result\_window" : 20000  
}  
}

My Concerns: "what would be the consequences of having abusive requests? Slowness or crash?"

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**Author:** ![Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/christian_dahlqvist/32/4617_2.png) [@Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Christian_Dahlqvist)\
**Post date:** [May 22, 2019, 9:28pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-would-be-the-consequences-of-having-abusive-requests-slowness-or-crash/182278/2 "2019-05-22T21:28:18Z")

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It could be either and depends a lot on the type of query used.

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**Author:** ![nuwan](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/nuwan/32/42325_2.png) [@nuwan](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/nuwan)\
**Post date:** [May 24, 2019, 7:00am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-would-be-the-consequences-of-having-abusive-requests-slowness-or-crash/182278/3 "2019-05-24T07:00:47Z")

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Thank you Christian\_Dahlqvist. Appreciate you support

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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:** [June 21, 2019, 7:00am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-would-be-the-consequences-of-having-abusive-requests-slowness-or-crash/182278/4 "2019-06-21T07:00:50Z")

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Closed on June 21, 2019, 7:00am UTC

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