# Discrepancy b/w /\_cat/nodes and Kibana dashboard showing node's performance

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/discrepancy-b-w-cat-nodes-and-kibana-dashboard-showing-nodes-performance/236039>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Tags:** elastic-stack-monitoring\
**Created:** [June 6, 2020, 1:15pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/discrepancy-b-w-cat-nodes-and-kibana-dashboard-showing-nodes-performance/236039 "2020-06-06T13:15:42Z")\
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**Author:** ![slmingol](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/slmingol/32/12606_2.png) [@slmingol](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/slmingol)\
**Post date:** [June 6, 2020, 1:15pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/discrepancy-b-w-cat-nodes-and-kibana-dashboard-showing-nodes-performance/236039/1 "2020-06-06T13:15:42Z")

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I'm investigating a performance problem we've been noticing with one of our datanodes. Specifically es-data-01a.lab1. The `/_cat/nodes` API shows indexing.index\_count hovering around 20, but the dashboard in Kibana shows a much lower number (0-5).

**/\_cat/nodes output**

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/f/c/fc546f9d534f3cd37ab65a0520cf09512d223d07.png)

Same output in text:

```auto
Every 2.0s: ./esl GET '_cat/nodes?v&h=name,index*,segments.count,segments.index_writer_memory&s=name' unagi: Sat Jun 6 09:16:05 2020

name indexing.delete_current indexing.delete_time indexing.delete_total indexing.index_current indexing.index_time indexing.index_total indexing.index_failed segments.count segments.index_writer_memory
lab-rdu-es-data-01a 0 0s 0 23 60.7d 22030282842 135 8752 343.5mb
lab-rdu-es-data-01b 0 1.7s 49405 0 51.9d 18137685493 107 8428 292.1mb
lab-rdu-es-data-01c 0 189ms 323 5 62.6d 21783227217 1163 8584 243.9mb
lab-rdu-es-data-01d 0 62ms 210 5 81.9d 17506647734 179 8228 290.9mb
lab-rdu-es-data-01e 0 43ms 1 3 30.2d 5993549694 0 8587 266.3mb
lab-rdu-es-data-01f 0 3.1s 49390 3 26.5d 5036224438 0 8338 328.6mb
lab-rdu-es-data-01g 0 382ms 99 0 31.4d 6195974875 2 8550 659.3mb
lab-rdu-es-master-01a 0 0s 0 0 0s 0 0 0 0b
lab-rdu-es-master-01b 0 0s 0 0 0s 0 0 0 0b
lab-rdu-es-master-01c 0 0s 0 0 0s 0 0 0 0b
lab-rdu-es-ml-01a 0 0s 0 0 0s 0 0 0 0b
lab-rdu-es-ml-01b 0 0s 0 0 0s 0 0 0 0b

```

**Kibana dashboard**

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/0/5/0521acc58702908eb590a391465ec732ed1806a8.png)

**/\_cat/indicies**

```auto
Every 2.0s: ./esl GET '_cat/indices?pretty&v&h=index,indexing.index*&s=indexing.index_current:desc' -H 'Accept: application/json' | jq .[] | paste - - - - - - - | gsed 's/indexing\.//g;s/[}{]\+[\t]\+//... unagi: Sat Jun 6 10:05:41 2020

index: filebeat-flow-2020.06.06-14, index_current: 2, index_time: 4m, index_total: 1080291, index_failed: 0
index: metricbeat-6.5.1-2020.06.06, index_current: 2, index_time: 1.2d, index_total: 417630939, index_failed: 0
index: filebeat-ilm-6.5.1-2020.06.05-000009, index_current: 1, index_time: 3.1d, index_total: 661193295, index_failed: 0
index: .reporting-2020.02.02, index_current: 0, index_time: 0s, index_total: 0, index_failed: 0
index: .reporting-2020.01.26, index_current: 0, index_time: 0s, index_total: 0, index_failed: 0
index: heartbeat-7.5.1-2020.05.14, index_current: 0, index_time: 31.1m, index_total: 10359892, index_failed: 0
index: heartbeat-7.5.1-2020.05.13, index_current: 0, index_time: 31.2m, index_total: 10372263, index_failed: 0
index: heartbeat-7.5.1-2020.05.12, index_current: 0, index_time: 22.6m, index_total: 10390919, index_failed: 0
index: heartbeat-7.5.1-2020.05.11, index_current: 0, index_time: 0s, index_total: 0, index_failed: 0
index: heartbeat-7.5.1-2020.05.10, index_current: 0, index_time: 23m, index_total: 10386600, index_failed: 0

```

**CMDs**

```auto
$ watch -d "./esl GET '_cat/nodes?v&h=name,index*,segments.count,segments.index_writer_memory&s=name'"

```

```auto
$ watch -d "./esl GET '_cat/indices?pretty&v&h=index,indexing.index*&s=indexing.index_current:desc' -H 'Accept: application/json' | jq .[] | paste - - - - - - - | gsed 's/indexing\.//g;s/[}{]\+[\t]\+//g;s/[\t]\+}//g;s/\"//g' | column -t | head"

```

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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 4, 2020, 1:15pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/discrepancy-b-w-cat-nodes-and-kibana-dashboard-showing-nodes-performance/236039/2 "2020-07-04T13:15:46Z")

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