diff --git a/core/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/common/settings/ClusterSettings.java b/core/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/common/settings/ClusterSettings.java
index be7bf50bba0..4325da8f6e1 100644
--- a/core/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/common/settings/ClusterSettings.java
+++ b/core/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/common/settings/ClusterSettings.java
@@ -57,6 +57,7 @@ import org.elasticsearch.index.IndexSettings;
 import org.elasticsearch.index.store.IndexStoreConfig;
 import org.elasticsearch.indices.analysis.HunspellService;
 import org.elasticsearch.indices.breaker.HierarchyCircuitBreakerService;
+import org.elasticsearch.indices.cache.query.IndicesQueryCache;
 import org.elasticsearch.indices.cache.request.IndicesRequestCache;
 import org.elasticsearch.indices.fielddata.cache.IndicesFieldDataCache;
 import org.elasticsearch.indices.recovery.RecoverySettings;
@@ -140,6 +141,8 @@ public final class ClusterSettings extends AbstractScopedSettings {
         FsRepository.REPOSITORIES_LOCATION_SETTING,
         IndexStoreConfig.INDICES_STORE_THROTTLE_TYPE_SETTING,
         IndexStoreConfig.INDICES_STORE_THROTTLE_MAX_BYTES_PER_SEC_SETTING,
+        IndicesQueryCache.INDICES_CACHE_QUERY_SIZE_SETTING,
+        IndicesQueryCache.INDICES_CACHE_QUERY_COUNT_SETTING,
         IndicesTTLService.INDICES_TTL_INTERVAL_SETTING,
         MappingUpdatedAction.INDICES_MAPPING_DYNAMIC_TIMEOUT_SETTING,
         MetaData.SETTING_READ_ONLY_SETTING,
diff --git a/core/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/index/cache/query/index/IndexQueryCache.java b/core/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/index/cache/query/index/IndexQueryCache.java
index 04f66290a5e..352d6af5ee9 100644
--- a/core/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/index/cache/query/index/IndexQueryCache.java
+++ b/core/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/index/cache/query/index/IndexQueryCache.java
@@ -22,7 +22,6 @@ package org.elasticsearch.index.cache.query.index;
 import org.apache.lucene.search.QueryCachingPolicy;
 import org.apache.lucene.search.Weight;
 import org.elasticsearch.ElasticsearchException;
-import org.elasticsearch.common.inject.Inject;
 import org.elasticsearch.index.AbstractIndexComponent;
 import org.elasticsearch.index.IndexSettings;
 import org.elasticsearch.index.cache.query.QueryCache;
@@ -36,7 +35,6 @@ public class IndexQueryCache extends AbstractIndexComponent implements QueryCach
 
     final IndicesQueryCache indicesQueryCache;
 
-    @Inject
     public IndexQueryCache(IndexSettings indexSettings, IndicesQueryCache indicesQueryCache) {
         super(indexSettings);
         this.indicesQueryCache = indicesQueryCache;
diff --git a/core/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/index/cache/query/none/NoneQueryCache.java b/core/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/index/cache/query/none/NoneQueryCache.java
index 67408655726..70cbfeb3830 100644
--- a/core/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/index/cache/query/none/NoneQueryCache.java
+++ b/core/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/index/cache/query/none/NoneQueryCache.java
@@ -31,7 +31,6 @@ import org.elasticsearch.index.cache.query.QueryCache;
  */
 public class NoneQueryCache extends AbstractIndexComponent implements QueryCache {
 
-    @Inject
     public NoneQueryCache(IndexSettings indexSettings) {
         super(indexSettings);
         logger.debug("Using no query cache");
diff --git a/core/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/indices/cache/query/IndicesQueryCache.java b/core/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/indices/cache/query/IndicesQueryCache.java
index 23b4bc84c44..58c2cd5a953 100644
--- a/core/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/indices/cache/query/IndicesQueryCache.java
+++ b/core/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/indices/cache/query/IndicesQueryCache.java
@@ -32,9 +32,10 @@ import org.apache.lucene.search.Weight;
 import org.elasticsearch.common.component.AbstractComponent;
 import org.elasticsearch.common.inject.Inject;
 import org.elasticsearch.common.lucene.ShardCoreKeyMap;
+import org.elasticsearch.common.settings.Setting;
+import org.elasticsearch.common.settings.Setting.Scope;
 import org.elasticsearch.common.settings.Settings;
 import org.elasticsearch.common.unit.ByteSizeValue;
-import org.elasticsearch.common.unit.MemorySizeValue;
 import org.elasticsearch.index.cache.query.QueryCacheStats;
 import org.elasticsearch.index.shard.ShardId;
 
@@ -48,10 +49,10 @@ import java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentHashMap;
 
 public class IndicesQueryCache extends AbstractComponent implements QueryCache, Closeable {
 
-    public static final String INDICES_CACHE_QUERY_SIZE = "indices.queries.cache.size";
-    @Deprecated
-    public static final String DEPRECATED_INDICES_CACHE_QUERY_SIZE = "indices.cache.filter.size";
-    public static final String INDICES_CACHE_QUERY_COUNT = "indices.queries.cache.count";
+    public static final Setting<ByteSizeValue> INDICES_CACHE_QUERY_SIZE_SETTING = Setting.byteSizeSetting(
+            "indices.queries.cache.size", "10%", false, Scope.CLUSTER);
+    public static final Setting<Integer> INDICES_CACHE_QUERY_COUNT_SETTING = Setting.intSetting(
+            "indices.queries.cache.count", 10000, 1, false, Scope.CLUSTER);
 
     private final LRUQueryCache cache;
     private final ShardCoreKeyMap shardKeyMap = new ShardCoreKeyMap();
@@ -66,21 +67,10 @@ public class IndicesQueryCache extends AbstractComponent implements QueryCache,
     @Inject
     public IndicesQueryCache(Settings settings) {
         super(settings);
-        String sizeString = settings.get(INDICES_CACHE_QUERY_SIZE);
-        if (sizeString == null) {
-            sizeString = settings.get(DEPRECATED_INDICES_CACHE_QUERY_SIZE);
-            if (sizeString != null) {
-                deprecationLogger.deprecated("The [" + DEPRECATED_INDICES_CACHE_QUERY_SIZE
-                        + "] settings is now deprecated, use [" + INDICES_CACHE_QUERY_SIZE + "] instead");
-            }
-        }
-        if (sizeString == null) {
-            sizeString = "10%";
-        }
-        final ByteSizeValue size = MemorySizeValue.parseBytesSizeValueOrHeapRatio(sizeString, INDICES_CACHE_QUERY_SIZE);
-        final int count = settings.getAsInt(INDICES_CACHE_QUERY_COUNT, 1000);
-        logger.debug("using [node] query cache with size [{}], actual_size [{}], max filter count [{}]",
-                sizeString, size, count);
+        final ByteSizeValue size = INDICES_CACHE_QUERY_SIZE_SETTING.get(settings);
+        final int count = INDICES_CACHE_QUERY_COUNT_SETTING.get(settings);
+        logger.debug("using [node] query cache with size [{}] max filter count [{}]",
+                size, count);
         cache = new LRUQueryCache(count, size.bytes()) {
 
             private Stats getStats(Object coreKey) {
diff --git a/core/src/test/java/org/elasticsearch/indices/cache/query/IndicesQueryCacheTests.java b/core/src/test/java/org/elasticsearch/indices/cache/query/IndicesQueryCacheTests.java
index 83295e9548a..ad5b37a2f53 100644
--- a/core/src/test/java/org/elasticsearch/indices/cache/query/IndicesQueryCacheTests.java
+++ b/core/src/test/java/org/elasticsearch/indices/cache/query/IndicesQueryCacheTests.java
@@ -92,7 +92,7 @@ public class IndicesQueryCacheTests extends ESTestCase {
         s.setQueryCachingPolicy(QueryCachingPolicy.ALWAYS_CACHE);
 
         Settings settings = Settings.builder()
-                .put(IndicesQueryCache.INDICES_CACHE_QUERY_COUNT, 10)
+                .put(IndicesQueryCache.INDICES_CACHE_QUERY_COUNT_SETTING.getKey(), 10)
                 .build();
         IndicesQueryCache cache = new IndicesQueryCache(settings);
         s.setQueryCache(cache);
@@ -172,7 +172,7 @@ public class IndicesQueryCacheTests extends ESTestCase {
         s2.setQueryCachingPolicy(QueryCachingPolicy.ALWAYS_CACHE);
 
         Settings settings = Settings.builder()
-                .put(IndicesQueryCache.INDICES_CACHE_QUERY_COUNT, 10)
+                .put(IndicesQueryCache.INDICES_CACHE_QUERY_COUNT_SETTING.getKey(), 10)
                 .build();
         IndicesQueryCache cache = new IndicesQueryCache(settings);
         s1.setQueryCache(cache);
@@ -297,7 +297,7 @@ public class IndicesQueryCacheTests extends ESTestCase {
         s2.setQueryCachingPolicy(QueryCachingPolicy.ALWAYS_CACHE);
 
         Settings settings = Settings.builder()
-                .put(IndicesQueryCache.INDICES_CACHE_QUERY_COUNT, 10)
+                .put(IndicesQueryCache.INDICES_CACHE_QUERY_COUNT_SETTING.getKey(), 10)
                 .build();
         IndicesQueryCache cache = new IndicesQueryCache(settings);
         s1.setQueryCache(cache);