# Calculating the time remaining for re-indexing process
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/calculating-the-time-remaining-for-re-indexing-process/261702
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Tags:** elastic-stack-monitoring
**Created:** [January 20, 2021, 8:34pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/calculating-the-time-remaining-for-re-indexing-process/261702 "2021-01-20T20:34:38Z")
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### Author:  [@sandeepkanabar](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/sandeepkanabar)
#### Post date: [January 20, 2021, 8:34pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/calculating-the-time-remaining-for-re-indexing-process/261702/1 "2021-01-20T20:34:38Z")
While `curator` is a fantastic tool, I wish it was showing the approximate time remaining for a re-indexing process.
Right now, I calculate the approximate time using the following:
1. Fire `GET _tasks?detailed=true&actions=*reindex&filter_path= **.name,**.total, **.created,**.description` and get the values of `status.total` and `status.created` for an index.
2. Go to Indices tab in Monitoring UI in kibana and get the indexing rate. Say it is `500/s`. I believe it can be calculated programmatically as described [here](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/calculating-indexing-rate-programmatically/261701).
3. `(status.total - status.created) / (500 *60)` gives me the number of minutes it will take for the re-indexing to complete.
Is this the correct approach? Could someone share their thoughts please.
Thanks,
Sandeep
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### Author:  [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)
#### Post date: [January 20, 2021, 8:36pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/calculating-the-time-remaining-for-re-indexing-process/261702/2 "2021-01-20T20:36:46Z")
That'd be a very rough number.
This like GC, IO/CPU/heap use, query and other indexing rates, and more would all impact any figure.
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### Author:  [@sandeepkanabar](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/sandeepkanabar)
#### Post date: [January 20, 2021, 8:44pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/calculating-the-time-remaining-for-re-indexing-process/261702/3 "2021-01-20T20:44:29Z")
Thanks Mark. So far, had been calculating this manually using the above steps and it turned out to be fairly accurate almost all the time. The value of `status.total` is fixed. Only `status.created` varies and so does the indexing rate.
And yes, this is something that will need to be invoked repeatedly (or in a loop) since this will change with indexing rate.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 17, 2021, 8:44pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/calculating-the-time-remaining-for-re-indexing-process/261702/4 "2021-02-17T20:44:37Z")
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