CAT count
Introduced 1.0
The CAT count operation lists the number of documents in your cluster.
Path and HTTP methods
GET _cat/count?v
GET _cat/count/<index>?v
Example requests
GET _cat/count?v
To see the number of documents in a specific index or alias, add the index or alias name after your query:
GET _cat/count/<index_or_alias>?v
If you want to get information for more than one index or alias, separate the index or alias names with commas:
GET _cat/count/index_or_alias_1,index_or_alias_2,index_or_alias_3
Example response
The following response shows the overall document count as 1625:
epoch | timestamp | count
1624237738 | 01:08:58 | 1625