[[cat-count]]
== cat count

`count` provides quick access to the document count of the entire
cluster, or individual indices.

[source,sh]
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% curl 192.168.56.10:9200/_cat/indices
green wiki1 3 0 10000 331 168.5mb 168.5mb
green wiki2 3 0   428   0     8mb     8mb

% curl 192.168.56.10:9200/_cat/count
1384314124582 19:42:04 10428

% curl 192.168.56.10:9200/_cat/count/wiki2
1384314139815 19:42:19 428
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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.