[[cat-count]]
=== cat count

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

[source,js]
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GET /_cat/count?v
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// CONSOLE
// TEST[setup:big_twitter]
// TEST[s/^/POST test\/test\?refresh\n{"test": "test"}\n/]

Looks like:

[source,txt]
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epoch      timestamp count
1475868259 15:24:19  121
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// TESTRESPONSE[s/1475868259 15:24:19/\\d+ \\d+:\\d+:\\d+/ non_json]

Or for a single index:

[source,js]
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GET /_cat/count/twitter?v
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// CONSOLE
// TEST[continued]

[source,txt]
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epoch      timestamp count
1475868259 15:24:20  120
--------------------------------------------------
// 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.