Elasticsearch 7 now requires to set track_total_hits=true in each request to get accurate count. We have a lot of different search templates and now need to do around 60+ changes which is not nice. Our app policy is that we always need accurate count. Is it possible via configuration? Didn't find a…

How to enable track_total_hits=true by default for all queries?

jpountz (Adrien Grand) September 13, 2019, 2:14pm 2

This isn't possible via configuration, you need to set it on every request.

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