# Api call to find timestamp of last updated record in Elasticsearch

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/api-call-to-find-timestamp-of-last-updated-record-in-elasticsearch/72543
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [January 23, 2017, 9:53pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/api-call-to-find-timestamp-of-last-updated-record-in-elasticsearch/72543 "2017-01-23T21:53:00Z")
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### Author: ![tdicken73](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ba9def/32.png) [@tdicken73](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/tdicken73)
#### Post date: [January 23, 2017, 9:53pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/api-call-to-find-timestamp-of-last-updated-record-in-elasticsearch/72543/1 "2017-01-23T21:53:00Z")

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I am developing a functionality to only return results as long as Elasticsearch is staying up to date. Is there a status check call I can make from the Elasticsearch Java api to find out the last time any record within an index was updated?

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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: [February 20, 2017, 9:53pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/api-call-to-find-timestamp-of-last-updated-record-in-elasticsearch/72543/2 "2017-02-20T21:53:24Z")

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