# \_cat/indices question

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cat-indices-question/194421
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [August 8, 2019, 11:43am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cat-indices-question/194421 "2019-08-08T11:43:57Z")
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### Author: ![pd\_tester](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a9adbd/32.png) [@pd\_tester](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/pd_tester)
#### Post date: [August 8, 2019, 11:43am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cat-indices-question/194421/1 "2019-08-08T11:43:57Z")

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Can I check the latest document created time upon calling \_cat/indices?

Like for example i want to see if the latest document inside the index is 10 days older

Thank you

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### Author: ![spinscale](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/spinscale/32/25011_2.png) [@spinscale](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/spinscale)
#### Post date: [August 9, 2019, 5:58am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cat-indices-question/194421/2 "2019-08-09T05:58:28Z")

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the \_cat indices API only contains information when the index has been created. But in order to find out if a document is older than 10 days you should query the index and search for a timestamp.

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### Author: ![pd\_tester](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a9adbd/32.png) [@pd\_tester](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/pd_tester)
#### Post date: [August 9, 2019, 6:14am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cat-indices-question/194421/3 "2019-08-09T06:14:29Z")

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Can you please give an example of an efficient query that i can use, for example, fetchdocuments that has 10 days older using createdTime field

Thank you

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### Author: ![spinscale](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/spinscale/32/25011_2.png) [@spinscale](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/spinscale)
#### Post date: [August 9, 2019, 6:22am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cat-indices-question/194421/4 "2019-08-09T06:22:29Z")

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use a [range query](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/7.3/query-dsl-range-query.html), set the `size` parameter to 0, if you are only interested if there is a document. You can also set the `terminate_after` parameter to `1` to abort early. See [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/7.3/search-request-body.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/7.3/search-request-body.html)

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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 6, 2019, 6:22am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cat-indices-question/194421/5 "2019-09-06T06:22:31Z")

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