[DOCS] Reformat cat count API (#45160)

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James Rodewig 2019-08-06 08:36:22 -04:00
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[[cat-count]]
=== cat count
`count` provides quick access to the document count of the entire
cluster, or individual indices.
Provides quick access to a document count of individual indices or all indices
in a cluster.
NOTE: The document count only includes live documents, not deleted documents
which have not yet been removed by the merge process.
[[cat-count-api-request]]
==== {api-request-title}
`GET /_cat/count/{index}`
[[cat-count-api-path-params]]
==== {api-path-parms-title}
include::{docdir}/rest-api/common-parms.asciidoc[tag=index]
[[cat-count-api-query-params]]
==== {api-query-parms-title}
include::{docdir}/rest-api/common-parms.asciidoc[tag=http-format]
include::{docdir}/rest-api/common-parms.asciidoc[tag=cat-h]
include::{docdir}/rest-api/common-parms.asciidoc[tag=help]
include::{docdir}/rest-api/common-parms.asciidoc[tag=local]
include::{docdir}/rest-api/common-parms.asciidoc[tag=master-timeout]
include::{docdir}/rest-api/common-parms.asciidoc[tag=cat-s]
include::{docdir}/rest-api/common-parms.asciidoc[tag=cat-v]
[[cat-count-api-example]]
==== {api-examples-title}
[[cat-count-api-example-ind]]
===== Example with an individual index
The following `count` API request retrieves the document count of a single
index, `twitter`.
[source,js]
--------------------------------------------------
GET /_cat/count/twitter?v
--------------------------------------------------
// CONSOLE
// TEST[setup:big_twitter]
The API returns the following response:
[source,txt]
--------------------------------------------------
epoch timestamp count
1475868259 15:24:20 120
--------------------------------------------------
// TESTRESPONSE[s/1475868259 15:24:20/\\d+ \\d+:\\d+:\\d+/ non_json]
[[cat-count-api-example-all]]
===== Example with all indices in a cluster
The following `count` API request retrieves the document count of all indices in
the cluster.
[source,js]
--------------------------------------------------
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// TEST[setup:big_twitter]
// TEST[s/^/POST test\/test\?refresh\n{"test": "test"}\n/]
Looks like:
The API returns the following response:
[source,txt]
--------------------------------------------------
epoch timestamp count
1475868259 15:24:19 121
--------------------------------------------------
// TESTRESPONSE[s/1475868259 15:24:19/\\d+ \\d+:\\d+:\\d+/ non_json]
Or for a single index:
[source,js]
--------------------------------------------------
GET /_cat/count/twitter?v
--------------------------------------------------
// CONSOLE
// TEST[continued]
[source,txt]
--------------------------------------------------
epoch timestamp count
1475868259 15:24:20 120
1475868259 15:24:20 121
--------------------------------------------------
// TESTRESPONSE[s/1475868259 15:24:20/\\d+ \\d+:\\d+:\\d+/ non_json]
NOTE: The document count indicates the number of live documents and does not include deleted documents which have not yet been cleaned up by the merge process.

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Valid values include JSON, YAML, etc.
end::http-format[]
tag::index[]
`{index}`::
(Optional, string) Comma-separated list of index names used to limit returned
information.
end::index[]
tag::local[]
`local`::
(Optional, boolean) If `true`, the request retrieves information from the local