# Elasticsearch - information about index

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-information-about-index/201044
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [September 25, 2019, 1:33pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-information-about-index/201044 "2019-09-25T13:33:45Z")
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### Author: ![Marek\_Siwiec](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/marek_siwiec/32/45680_2.png) [@Marek\_Siwiec](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Marek_Siwiec)
#### Post date: [September 25, 2019, 1:33pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-information-about-index/201044/1 "2019-09-25T13:33:46Z")

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I have question about how updating information about indicies works.  
I processing logs by filebeat to elasticsearch using ingest pipelines and using elastic stack 7.3.0.  
And I checked if logs was harvested by looking on endpoint: `_cat/indicies`

When logs appear and filebeat process them, number of documents in indicies not showing that they are proceed, but storage size is increase. And after filebeat close harvesting file, information with suitable number of docs appear.

Coincidentally I found that when I make some interaction with index(`_search` endpoint), then number of docs appear correct on `_cat/indicies` endpoint .

Why is happens in that way?

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### Author: ![Mark\_Harwood](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/mark_harwood/32/10538_2.png) [@Mark\_Harwood](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Mark_Harwood)
#### Post date: [September 25, 2019, 3:58pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-information-about-index/201044/2 "2019-09-25T15:58:40Z")

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See [this doc](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/tune-for-indexing-speed.html#_unset_or_increase_the_refresh_interval)

"Refreshes" make new content visible which is good for end users but bad for those providing the service because it comes at a cost. We changed the default behaviour of "refresh" in version 7 to delay refreshes if users were not seen to be searching.

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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: [October 23, 2019, 3:58pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-information-about-index/201044/3 "2019-10-23T15:58:41Z")

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