Elascticsearch count api returning improper count

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Hi All,

Could someone please help me on the below issue.

I have some thousands of documents in my index. When I am hitting count api with a condition where i am providing term query with ten thousand values for a particular field. Its returning ten thousand documents, but total field is showing 10001 as count.

Please help me on this.

Thanks,
Ram Prasad G

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Can you share your query and the output? Formatted please with the format button </>

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URL: http://localhost:9200/thr/thrtype/_count
Request Body:

{
"query": {
"bool": {
"must": [{
"terms": {
"empcode": ["433530187", "432610600", "429590801", "430060653", "430090661", "431570622", "857070585", "431130381", "435780347", "458180226", "434620051", "429600342", "431240447", "431280698", "430240230", "435300607", "438180957", "434560460", "338690294", "430740047", "434660787", "338680023", "437160645", "430520520", "429780030", "339450857", "436220764", "434330185", "429430187", "434410350", "429420996", "434070300", "431800766", "428670832", "437640252", "435730190", "431220097", "431720691", "339990117", "434660893", "440700219", "435770616", "434140248", "435700947", "338750038", "428640249", "435780554", "338290453", "431140601", "435040623", "338360160", "430570783", "438828709", "429990483", "338340074", "430790112", "338730122", "435450209", "435650905", "437520883", "338580056", "437670075", "430140721", "431520802", "429770580", "428140474", "431940778", "435670790", "437490042", "429400657", "435420144", "429770230", "338670040", "339370847", "435330131", "435480937", "435950368", "435950288", "459170572", "434030539", "430240178", "437640702", "430870375", "437180845", "431090623", "429610253", "434730121", "513890421", "434690963", "433592011", "446150187", "435940179", "339370591", "435870221", "432330178", "429400656", "435860068", "563680482", "434890706", "339670174", "435490460", "339790134", "433730438", "435060636", "430740058", "445430189", "436000858", "434090256", "338360278", "438184587", "428700399", "338310204", "444140388", "435060105", "432360967", "433960017", "433730696", "338840662", "338310430", "339300249", "436040285", "429760927", "339680052", "433790769", "437570589", "430930244", "435860307", "338300958", "429480113", "431810495", "434090394", "338470074", "428730762", "430130411", "435400002", "458210924", "436160661", "433510067", "442410556", "435700142", "435950954", "338850319", "432070884", "428640803", "436080612", "430280930", "544050615", "428750768", "435990454", "435400675", "435320025", "339640144", "338840914", "435210911", "433900704", "437710541", "436820021", "431830412", "428610580", "435950348", "339470276", "429770513", "434990084", "431850612", "339450569", "857120455", "430230364", "338860009", "458750663", "387870343", "437250126", "437730078", "434230621", "514020580", "432180969", "857140891", "856900329", "438387961", "444270011", "436270539", "339420024", "435770681", "339450932", "435660465", "435950793", "430970639", "438070708", "435770569", "431570918", "434560147", "436170751", "433900086", "436260471", "339830859", "435180384", "435830555", "338430436", "442650540", "435220774", "338440825", "438670742", "428670721", "436080617", "444110779", "432490245", "514250393", "338340360", "435430536", "430070592", "429360199", "339310859", "338290688", "430140922", "338830053", "431560136", "446540890", "434860856", "436040988", "430750994", "514000517", "338450894", "437400231", "430650797", "437800010", "434980030", "339980325", "516640716", "430350028", "435330236", "339470724", "437280200", "895780117", "435570590", "434030459", "436090296", "339460365", "544250710", "437520120", "338570793", "378320910", "433540119", "430920080", "431540523", "435830347", "434160835", "434500357", "435820908", "430730729", "432020142", "435970262", "895880862", "433990081", "429480092", "429240724", "430720864", "434760601", "431210253", "428130228", "434659743", "437790124", "339680342", "514288757", "338710224", "430350671", "431770997", "435390046", "434450710", "433980152", "435380776", "338630838", "437480152", "338820127", "431940173", "430870432", "437480146", "437160262", "433670146", "436220750", "434790025", "433660540", "431270631", "430770068", "435960622", "435850815", "434820704", "435830453", "431170620", "339770437", "378340801", "437500204", "446360849", "434340348", "431240363", "339110294", "435134580", "429770919", "434940238", "339950357", "339770173", "339700787", "435800363", "437620076", "436090085", "430580525", "432440595", "431350669", "437410001", "434780145", "458380537", "431610972", "430670629", "435690513", "339680327", "434880995", "431620764", "339610692", "432190100", "428610855", "435500899", "629710232", "544200285", "436120601", "339580121", "431080454", "431150736", "435960296", "432200567", "437220902"]
}
}]
}
}
}

Response Body:

{
"count": 10001,
"_shards": {
"total": 5,
"successful": 5,
"skipped": 0,
"failed": 0
}
}

Above Request body will contain 10,000 empCodes, but due to space constraint I deleted some of them, so I should get count as 10,000, instead I am getting 10,001.

Kindly let me know where is the mistake.

Thanks,
Ram Prasad G

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sorry for the huge request body, I just wanted to post you as it is. Please excuse me.

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Could it be that u have the same thing twice? so it counts it one more time? u sure u have 10k in 0?

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Sorry I didn't understand what you are saying, but I can say that, If we are searching for 10k records, count should return 10k, but its returning 10,001 as count.

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Sry, my English sucks when wrtting. I'm saying could it be that u fu'ke' up and inserted 10001 records. Because u didnt limit ur search on 10k, there could be more records, my guess.

It's one record(myv header went into the DB), must be there for sure :smiley:

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Hi Kevin,

On this I tried with search api query, no.of resulted documents are 10k, but the total is showing 10,001 as output. Problem is only with total field inside hits object.

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What gives:

GET thr/thrtype/_count
GET /_cat/indices/thr?v
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