[[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, `docs`, `store`, and `indexing`, `get`, and `search` stats
are returned, other stats can be enabled as well:

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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, including custom grouping using the
				`groups` parameter (search operations can be associated with one or more
				groups).

`warmer`:: 		Warmer statistics.
`merge`:: 		Merge statistics.
`fielddata`:: 		Fielddata statistics.
`flush`:: 		Flush statistics.
`completion`:: 		Completion suggest statistics.
`refresh`:: 	Refresh statistics.
`clear`:: 		Clears all the flags (first).

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 on top of the defaults
curl 'localhost:9200/_stats?merge=true&refresh=true'
# Get back stats just for flush
curl 'localhost:9200/_stats?clear=true&flush=true'
# Get back stats for type1 and type2 documents for the my_index index
curl 'localhost:9200/my_index/_stats?clear=true&indexing=true&types=type1,type2
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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.

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=== Specific stats endpoints

Instead of using flags to indicate which stats to return, specific REST
endpoints can be used, for example:

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# Merge stats across all indices
curl localhost:9200/_stats/merge
# Merge stats for the my_index index
curl localhost:9200/my_index/_stats/merge
# Indexing stats for my_index
curl localhost:9200/my_index/_stats/indexing
# Indexing stats for my_index for my_type1 and my_type2
curl localhost:9200/my_index/_stats/indexing/my_type1,my_type2
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