# Difference between indexCount and indexCurrent

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/difference-between-indexcount-and-indexcurrent/29529>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [September 18, 2015, 12:53am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/difference-between-indexcount-and-indexcurrent/29529 "2015-09-18T00:53:59Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![sagarit2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f0a364/32.png) [@sagarit2](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/sagarit2)\
**Post date:** [September 18, 2015, 12:53am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/difference-between-indexcount-and-indexcurrent/29529/1 "2015-09-18T00:53:59Z")

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Hi,

1. What's the difference between indexCount and indexCurrent from IndexingStats Class ?

2. If we calculate indexCount on one single node then Is indexCount cumulative for the life time of the node and it will always grow or can the count be reduced to ?

Does it have any relation with Segment Merging in terms of change in count number ?

Reason to ask this question is that we are seeing IndexCount for a particular node go up or down and it does not always go up ?

Is this observation correct ?

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**Author:** ![sagarit2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f0a364/32.png) [@sagarit2](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/sagarit2)\
**Post date:** [September 18, 2015, 11:41pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/difference-between-indexcount-and-indexcurrent/29529/2 "2015-09-18T23:41:57Z")

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Got the answer, we were looking for. Hence closing it.

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [September 19, 2015, 6:14am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/difference-between-indexcount-and-indexcurrent/29529/3 "2015-09-19T06:14:46Z")

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What's the answer, why not share so others can learn 🙂

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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:** [July 5, 2017, 11:49pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/difference-between-indexcount-and-indexcurrent/29529/4 "2017-07-05T23:49:18Z")

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