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diff --git a/doc/user/search/advanced_search.md b/doc/user/search/advanced_search.md index 075c9b6154b..90d6a15901a 100644 --- a/doc/user/search/advanced_search.md +++ b/doc/user/search/advanced_search.md @@ -84,15 +84,8 @@ its performance: ## Global Search validation -> [Introduced](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/346263) in GitLab 14.6 [with a flag](../../administration/feature_flags.md) named `prevent_abusive_searches`. Disabled by default. - -FLAG: -On self-managed GitLab, by default this feature is not available. To make it available, -ask an administrator to [enable the feature flag](../../administration/feature_flags.md) named `prevent_abusive_searches`. -The feature is not ready for production use. - To prevent abusive searches, such as searches that may result in a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS), Global Search ignores, logs, and -doesn't return any results for searches considered abusive according to the following criteria, if `prevent_abusive_searches` feature flag is enabled: +doesn't return any results for searches considered abusive according to the following criteria: - Searches with less than 2 characters. - Searches with any term greater than 100 characters. URL search terms have a maximum of 200 characters. @@ -101,8 +94,7 @@ doesn't return any results for searches considered abusive according to the foll - Searches with a `repository_ref` or `project_ref` parameter that has special characters not allowed by [Git refname](https://git-scm.com/docs/git-check-ref-format). - Searches with a `scope` that is unknown. -Regardless of the status of the `prevent_abusive_searches` feature flag, searches that don't -comply with the criteria described below aren't logged as abusive but are flagged with an error: +Searches that don't comply with the criteria described below aren't logged as abusive but are flagged with an error: - Searches with more than 4096 characters. - Searches with more than 64 terms. |