# Api to get indexing rate
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/api-to-get-indexing-rate/144159
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [August 13, 2018, 11:26am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/api-to-get-indexing-rate/144159 "2018-08-13T11:26:30Z")
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### Author:  [@vissu](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/vissu)
#### Post date: [August 13, 2018, 11:26am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/api-to-get-indexing-rate/144159/1 "2018-08-13T11:26:30Z")
Hi Team,
Is there any api to get indexing rate of an index ?
When i use stats api i get only these, even for he current index.
"indexing": {
"index\_total": 2440,
"index\_time\_in\_millis": 936,
"index\_current": 0,
"index\_failed": 0,
"delete\_total": 0,
"delete\_time\_in\_millis": 0,
"delete\_current": 0,
"noop\_update\_total": 0,
"is\_throttled": false,
"throttle\_time\_in\_millis": 0
}
Thanks
Vishnu
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### Author:  [@danielmitterdorfer](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/danielmitterdorfer)
#### Post date: [August 20, 2018, 12:13pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/api-to-get-indexing-rate/144159/2 "2018-08-20T12:13:11Z")
Hi,
this is not available directly but you can call that API every N seconds and calculate the difference in indexed documents. Say you call the API twice and get:
- At second 20: `index_total` = 3700
- At second 25: `index_total` = 17700
then you can calculate the indexing throughput as (17700 - 3700) / (25 - 20) = 14000 / 5 = 2800 documents / s. If you do that in a loop you can calculate the indexing throughput over time.
Daniel
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [September 17, 2018, 12:13pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/api-to-get-indexing-rate/144159/3 "2018-09-17T12:13:11Z")
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