[[indices-stats]]
== Indices Stats

Indices level stats provide statistics on different operations happening
on an index. The API provides statistics on the index level scope
(though most stats can also be retrieved using node level scope).

The following returns high level aggregation and index level stats for
all indices:

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curl localhost:9200/_stats
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Specific index stats can be retrieved using:

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curl localhost:9200/index1,index2/_stats
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By default, all stats are returned, returning only specific stats can be
specified as well in the URI. Those stats can be any of:

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`docs`:: 		The number of docs / deleted docs (docs not yet merged out).
				Note, affected by refreshing the index.

`store`:: 		The size of the index.

`indexing`:: 	Indexing statistics, can be combined with a comma
				separated list of `types` to provide document type level stats.

`get`:: 		Get statistics, including missing stats.

`search`:: 		Search statistics. You can include statistics for custom groups by adding
                an extra `groups` parameter (search operations can be associated with one or more
                groups). The `groups` parameter accepts a comma separated list of group names.
                Use `_all` to return statistics for all groups.

`warmer`:: 		Warmer statistics.
`merge`:: 		Merge statistics.
`fielddata`:: 		Fielddata statistics.
`flush`:: 		Flush statistics.
`completion`:: 		Completion suggest statistics.
`refresh`:: 	Refresh statistics.

Some statistics allow per field granularity which accepts a list comma-separated list of included fields. By default all fields are included:

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`fields`::	List of fields to be included in the statistics. This is used as the default list unless a more specific field list is provided (see below).
`completion_fields`::	List of fields to be included in the Completion Suggest statistics
`fielddata_fields`:: 	List of fields to be included in the Fielddata statistics

Here are some samples:

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# Get back stats for merge and refresh only for all indices
curl 'localhost:9200/_stats/merge,refresh'
# Get back stats for type1 and type2 documents for the my_index index
curl 'localhost:9200/my_index/_stats/indexing?types=type1,type2
# Get back just search stats for group1 and group2
curl 'localhost:9200/_stats/search?groups=group1,group2
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The stats returned are aggregated on the index level, with
`primaries` and `total` aggregations. In order to get back shard level
stats, set the `level` parameter to `shards`.

Note, as shards move around the cluster, their stats will be cleared as
they are created on other nodes. On the other hand, even though a shard
"left" a node, that node will still retain the stats that shard
contributed to.

