# ElasticSearch Refresh Interval vs Translog

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-refresh-interval-vs-translog/14545>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [November 22, 2013, 1:53pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-refresh-interval-vs-translog/14545 "2013-11-22T13:53:58Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![love2dishtech](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/love2dishtech/32/1859_2.png) [@love2dishtech](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/love2dishtech)\
**Post date:** [November 22, 2013, 1:53pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-refresh-interval-vs-translog/14545/1 "2013-11-22T13:53:58Z")

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I understand the uses of Translog and refresh interval.

What I am confused for is, if the refresh to Index Readers has happened by refresh\_interval, and the translog still has few documents, and the lucene commit has not happened. Will the IndexReader after the refresh will be able to read the documents from translog as well.

I am looking at a way to get the documents which are not indexed but are in translog.

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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 6, 2017, 2:05am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-refresh-interval-vs-translog/14545/2 "2017-07-06T02:05:20Z")

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Closed on July 6, 2017, 2:05am UTC