# Count number of times an index was searched
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/count-number-of-times-an-index-was-searched/330260
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [April 19, 2023, 4:48am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/count-number-of-times-an-index-was-searched/330260 "2023-04-19T04:48:01Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@searchwithme](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/searchwithme)
#### Post date: [April 19, 2023, 4:48am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/count-number-of-times-an-index-was-searched/330260/1 "2023-04-19T04:48:01Z")
Hi team!
Is there a way to find out how many times a particular index was searched/queries? If not a direct API in elastic, is there a workaround to get this metric?
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### Author:  [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)
#### Post date: [April 19, 2023, 6:30am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/count-number-of-times-an-index-was-searched/330260/2 "2023-04-19T06:30:58Z")
Have a look at: [Index stats API | Elasticsearch Guide [8.7] | Elastic](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/indices-stats.html)
This might answer your question. If not, I believe that you will need to add a proxy before Elasticsearch and store whatever you want to collect in Elasticsearch to compute the needed stats.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [May 17, 2023, 6:31am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/count-number-of-times-an-index-was-searched/330260/3 "2023-05-17T06:31:34Z")
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