# How to count the number of docs indexed per N seconds **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [October 29, 2020, 1:57am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-count-the-number-of-docs-indexed-per-n-seconds/253631 "2020-10-29T01:57:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![AClerk](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/aclerk/32/55297_2.png) [@AClerk](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/AClerk)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2020, 1:57am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-count-the-number-of-docs-indexed-per-n-seconds/253631/1 "2020-10-29T01:57:28Z")
Hello, I would like to know how many documents are indexed per N seconds. So, I want to export/get statistics about the Elastic cluster performance. Is there a way to get these numbers? Is there a way to split these numbers per index? Cheers! ---
**Author:** ![wangqinghuan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/d26b3c/32.png) [@wangqinghuan](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/wangqinghuan)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2020, 3:56am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-count-the-number-of-docs-indexed-per-n-seconds/253631/2 "2020-10-29T03:56:25Z")
Kibana provide visualize, which is easy to get/export some statistics from Elasticsearch. ---
**Author:** ![AClerk](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/aclerk/32/55297_2.png) [@AClerk](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/AClerk)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2020, 4:07am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-count-the-number-of-docs-indexed-per-n-seconds/253631/3 "2020-10-29T04:07:17Z")
Any specific? I couldn't find anything handy. ---
**Author:** ![wangqinghuan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/d26b3c/32.png) [@wangqinghuan](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/wangqinghuan)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2020, 4:17am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-count-the-number-of-docs-indexed-per-n-seconds/253631/4 "2020-10-29T04:17:32Z")
For example, count documents of packeatbeats indices per 5s. ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/7/4/74ef29f694cf64b554ae43f7fa630b9a681e08e0.png) ---
**Author:** ![Iker](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/iker/32/91708_2.png) [@Iker](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Iker)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2020, 5:54am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-count-the-number-of-docs-indexed-per-n-seconds/253631/5 "2020-10-29T05:54:56Z")
You could use an external monitoring agent through the stats api; personally I use grafana +influxdb+telegraf ![image_2020-10-29_005422](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/4/1/41a16e48fe67473a40317b8e8691e74ec00cc7f3.png) > **[Cluster stats API | Elasticsearch Reference \[7.9\] | Elastic](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/cluster-stats.html)** ---
**Author:** ![AClerk](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/aclerk/32/55297_2.png) [@AClerk](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/AClerk)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2020, 6:12am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-count-the-number-of-docs-indexed-per-n-seconds/253631/6 "2020-10-29T06:12:29Z")
Stats will not give me the # of documents indexed per second. ---
**Author:** ![Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/christian_dahlqvist/32/4617_2.png) [@Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Christian_Dahlqvist)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2020, 6:31am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-count-the-number-of-docs-indexed-per-n-seconds/253631/7 "2020-10-29T06:31:45Z")
Elasticsearch does not store this natively, so you need to monitor or calculate this based on calls to the stats APIs, which is what Elasticsearch monitoring does or query the indexed data, which assumes you have accurate time stamps. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2020, 6:31am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-count-the-number-of-docs-indexed-per-n-seconds/253631/8 "2020-11-26T06:31:55Z")
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