Kill a running query

Force-stop a specific query by its query_id

clickhouse-client -q "KILL QUERY WHERE query_id = 'abc-123'"
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clickhouse17 commands
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clickhousedebug

More clickhouse commands

  • Table disk usage
    clickhouse-client -q 'SELECT database, table, formatReadableSize(sum(bytes_on_disk)) AS size FROM system.parts GROUP BY database, table ORDER BY sum(bytes_on_disk) DESC LIMIT 20'

    Top 20 tables by on-disk size

  • Optimize table (force merge)
    clickhouse-client -q 'OPTIMIZE TABLE mydb.mytable FINAL'

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    clickhouse-client --query 'INSERT INTO mydb.events FORMAT CSVWithNames' < events.csv

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  • Slowest recent queries
    clickhouse-client -q "SELECT query_duration_ms, formatReadableSize(memory_usage) mem, substring(query,1,80) FROM system.query_log WHERE type=2 AND event_time>now()-3600 ORDER BY query_duration_ms DESC LIMIT 10"

    Top slow finished queries last hour with memory; type=2 = QueryFinish

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