# About Indexing Time

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/about-indexing-time/245212>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [August 17, 2020, 9:59am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/about-indexing-time/245212 "2020-08-17T09:59:07Z")\
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**Author:** ![dawiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/71e660/32.png) [@dawiro](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dawiro)\
**Post date:** [August 17, 2020, 9:59am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/about-indexing-time/245212/1 "2020-08-17T09:59:07Z")

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Hi,  
Can someone confirm/clarify the difference between `Index Time (ms)` and `Latency (ms)` in x-pack monitoring?

Am I right in thinking that the first measuring the computational processing time of indexing requests. Whereas the latency stat is measuring the latency of the actual disk writes? So, index time is relatively high, it could be an indicator of being cpu bound, as opposed to disk bound?

Thx  
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**Author:** ![dawiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/71e660/32.png) [@dawiro](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dawiro)\
**Post date:** [August 18, 2020, 9:47am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/about-indexing-time/245212/2 "2020-08-18T09:47:34Z")

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Hi,  
Is this question unclear? Do I need to provide more info?

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [September 15, 2020, 9:47am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/about-indexing-time/245212/3 "2020-09-15T09:47:46Z")

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