# Docs.count given by /\_cat/indices on index with replica shards
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/docs-count-given-by-cat-indices-on-index-with-replica-shards/221303
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [February 27, 2020, 6:26pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/docs-count-given-by-cat-indices-on-index-with-replica-shards/221303 "2020-02-27T18:26:56Z")
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### Author:  [@lschmid](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/lschmid)
#### Post date: [February 27, 2020, 6:26pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/docs-count-given-by-cat-indices-on-index-with-replica-shards/221303/1 "2020-02-27T18:26:56Z")
1. For an index with replica shard(s), does the docs.count field given by /\_cat/indices include docs on the replica shard or only docs on primary shards?
2. Say I want to get even splits of an index by using the scroll API with a given size. If in this case docs.count would include docs on the replica shards, would scrolling over portions of the total docs returned by \_cat/indices yield copies of data across different scrolls as it would scroll over the primary document on the primary shard and then again over the replica shard?
Example for clarification: Say we have index1 with 1 primary shard, 1 replica shard, and \_cat/indices returns 1000 for docs.count. Now I want to divide index1 into 4 sections, so I use the scroll API with a size of 250.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [March 26, 2020, 6:27pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/docs-count-given-by-cat-indices-on-index-with-replica-shards/221303/2 "2020-03-26T18:27:03Z")
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