elasticsearch/docs/reference/esql/processing-commands/limit.asciidoc

[discrete]
[[esql-limit]]
=== `LIMIT`

The `LIMIT` processing command enables you to limit the number of rows:

[source,esql]
----
include::{esql-specs}/docs.csv-spec[tag=limit]
----

If not specified, `LIMIT` defaults to `500`. A single query will not return
more than 10,000 rows, regardless of the `LIMIT` value.