# ES index creation & population time **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [February 3, 2015, 4:22pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/es-index-creation-population-time/21960 "2015-02-03T16:22:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Kurt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b19c9b/32.png) [@Kurt](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Kurt)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2015, 4:22pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/es-index-creation-population-time/21960/1 "2015-02-03T16:22:04Z")
I'm trying to do some benchmark tests and want to know if there is a way to determine how long it will take elastic search to create indices and then populate them. I'm not seeing any logging information that I can use to determine the elapsed time. Any ideas? Thanks! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "elasticsearch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com](mailto:elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com). To view this discussion on the web visit [https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/18ce8427-90d6-473e-a448-8f04fe976df6%40googlegroups.com](https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/18ce8427-90d6-473e-a448-8f04fe976df6%40googlegroups.com). For more options, visit [https://groups.google.com/d/optout](https://groups.google.com/d/optout). ---
**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2015, 9:22pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/es-index-creation-population-time/21960/2 "2015-02-03T21:22:35Z")
Once you get a response from ES then the index is created. As for populating, it'd depend how you do it, but if you use bulk then again, once you get a response then it's completed the request and indexed the docs. You'd have to time that via your test framework though. On 4 February 2015 at 03:22, Kurt [aklbmcs@gmail.com](mailto:aklbmcs@gmail.com) wrote: > I'm trying to do some benchmark tests and want to know if there is a way > to determine how long it will take Elasticsearch to create indices and > then populate them. I'm not seeing any logging information that I can use > to determine the elapsed time. Any ideas? Thanks! > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "elasticsearch" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com](mailto:elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com). > To view this discussion on the web visit > [https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/18ce8427-90d6-473e-a448-8f04fe976df6%40googlegroups.com](https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/18ce8427-90d6-473e-a448-8f04fe976df6%40googlegroups.com) > [https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/18ce8427-90d6-473e-a448-8f04fe976df6%40googlegroups.com?utm\_medium=email&utm\_source=footer](https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/18ce8427-90d6-473e-a448-8f04fe976df6%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer) > . > For more options, visit [https://groups.google.com/d/optout](https://groups.google.com/d/optout). -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "elasticsearch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com](mailto:elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com). To view this discussion on the web visit [https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/CAEYi1X9\_ObuBhqnbrJFAf3%3DjhHt5QrG3H2xYOxRJqfso-iHqrQ%40mail.gmail.com](https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/CAEYi1X9_ObuBhqnbrJFAf3%3DjhHt5QrG3H2xYOxRJqfso-iHqrQ%40mail.gmail.com). For more options, visit [https://groups.google.com/d/optout](https://groups.google.com/d/optout). ---
**Author:** ![Sarang\_Zargar](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/sarang_zargar/32/935_2.png) [@Sarang\_Zargar](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Sarang_Zargar)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2015, 7:54am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/es-index-creation-population-time/21960/3 "2015-02-04T07:54:26Z")
Could you please add more details? - Are you trying to create indices programmatically (or calling ES rest endpoint)? - How much data you are populating in the index? - Are you using bulk index api or single index api? As Mark said in his post time the operation in your application layer. You total time will vary based on how you index (single/bulk) and how much data you plan to index. In addition to that your hardware will dictate your indexing rate. Any tests done on local would be totally different from that on actual production servers. On Tuesday, 3 February 2015 08:22:04 UTC-8, Kurt wrote: > I'm trying to do some benchmark tests and want to know if there is a way > to determine how long it will take Elasticsearch to create indices and > then populate them. I'm not seeing any logging information that I can use > to determine the elapsed time. Any ideas? Thanks! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "elasticsearch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com](mailto:elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com). To view this discussion on the web visit [https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/5b321638-7628-46b7-8b9c-4f4034baf89a%40googlegroups.com](https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/5b321638-7628-46b7-8b9c-4f4034baf89a%40googlegroups.com). For more options, visit [https://groups.google.com/d/optout](https://groups.google.com/d/optout). ---
**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, 12:35am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/es-index-creation-population-time/21960/4 "2017-07-06T00:35:04Z")