# Kibana API Result format

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-api-result-format/259989>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [January 1, 2021, 9:17am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-api-result-format/259989 "2021-01-01T09:17:06Z")\
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**Author:** ![shiv97](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e8c25b/32.png) [@shiv97](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/shiv97)\
**Post date:** [January 1, 2021, 9:17am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-api-result-format/259989/1 "2021-01-01T09:17:06Z")

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Hi Everyone,

I write one query in the Kibana console that provides me some JSON result I want to know about some insight into the Json result

{  
**"took" : 11,**  
"timed\_out" : false,  
"\_shards" : {  
"total" : 10,  
"successful" : 10,  
"skipped" : 0,  
"failed" : 0  
},  
"hits" : {  
"total" : {  
**"value" : 348** ,  
"relation" : "eq"  
},  
"max\_score" : 117.567535,  
"hits" : [  
{

I want to know what is difference between took and value fields

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**Author:** ![wylie](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/wylie/32/81794_2.png) [@wylie](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/wylie)\
**Post date:** [January 1, 2021, 11:06pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-api-result-format/259989/2 "2021-01-01T23:06:35Z")

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This is a standard Elasticsearch response, which is documented here: [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/search-search.html#search-api-response-body](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/search-search.html#search-api-response-body)

`took` is a value in milliseconds. `hits.total.value`is documented as well, but has two modes: either exact value or `gte` value

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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:** [January 29, 2021, 11:06pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-api-result-format/259989/3 "2021-01-29T23:06:36Z")

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