# Elasticsearch document count going down

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-document-count-going-down/125750>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [March 27, 2018, 12:26pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-document-count-going-down/125750 "2018-03-27T12:26:11Z")\
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**Author:** ![hoangvnit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b4bc9f/32.png) [@hoangvnit](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/hoangvnit)\
**Post date:** [March 27, 2018, 12:26pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-document-count-going-down/125750/1 "2018-03-27T12:26:11Z")

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Hi  
Now i using elasticsearch 5.5 on AWS

I have mapping with about 163000 document.  
and i don't delete any document, but after one day i have lost about 2000 document without reason, i don't know why.

I checked Monitoring on console aws for make sure no any document have deleted. and i don't see any document deleted on log.

anyone have same problem like me? or anyone know what case will be affected to lost document.

Thank you advance.

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**Author:** ![dadoonet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dadoonet/32/137187_2.png) [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)\
**Post date:** [March 27, 2018, 1:30pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-document-count-going-down/125750/2 "2018-03-27T13:30:59Z")

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Which index has less documents? Is it the monitoring index by any chance?

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**Author:** ![hoangvnit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b4bc9f/32.png) [@hoangvnit](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/hoangvnit)\
**Post date:** [March 27, 2018, 1:45pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-document-count-going-down/125750/3 "2018-03-27T13:45:46Z")

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> [@dadoonet](#):
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> Which index has less documents? Is it the monitoring index by any chance?

i using query for see result

```
{
    "query": {
        "match_all": {}
    }
}

```

and total is going down, but i don't delete any document.

```
  "hits": 
    "total": 164297

```

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**Author:** ![dadoonet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dadoonet/32/137187_2.png) [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)\
**Post date:** [March 27, 2018, 1:59pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-document-count-going-down/125750/4 "2018-03-27T13:59:53Z")

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So if you are query all indices, there is an automatic deletion of monitoring data in X-Pack Basic. That is may be what you are seeing?

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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:** [April 24, 2018, 2:00pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-document-count-going-down/125750/5 "2018-04-24T14:00:00Z")

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