# Max\_docs and count api does not return the same number
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/max-docs-and-count-api-does-not-return-the-same-number/10561
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [January 30, 2013, 7:41pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/max-docs-and-count-api-does-not-return-the-same-number/10561 "2013-01-30T19:41:36Z")
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### Author:  [@Chunlei\_Wu](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Chunlei_Wu)
#### Post date: [January 30, 2013, 7:41pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/max-docs-and-count-api-does-not-return-the-same-number/10561/1 "2013-01-30T19:41:36Z")
I have a ES cluster with 2 nodes (v0.20.2). I built a new index with 609218
docs without any error (every doc was inserted just once). Then I have this
returned from status:
docs: {
num\_docs: 876969
max\_doc: 876969
deleted\_docs: 0
}
while the count API returns the 609218 docs:
curl http://es\_node:9200/my\_index/my\_type/\_count
{"count":609218,"\_shards":{"total":5,"successful":5,"failed":0}}
And my index settings look like this:
settings: {
index.number\_of\_replicas: 1
index.version.created: 191199
index.number\_of\_shards: 5
}
Why does num\_docs show different than 609218? I am also not sure why
"index.version.created: 191199" as my docs have no version changes.
Thanks,
Chunlei
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### Author:  [@Clinton\_Gormley](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Clinton_Gormley)
#### Post date: [January 31, 2013, 8:52am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/max-docs-and-count-api-does-not-return-the-same-number/10561/2 "2013-01-31T08:52:45Z")
On Wed, 2013-01-30 at 11:41 -0800, Chunlei Wu wrote:
> I have a ES cluster with 2 nodes (v0.20.2). I built a new index with
> 609218 docs without any error (every doc was inserted just once). Then
> I have this returned from status:
>
> docs: {
> num\_docs: 876969
> max\_doc: 876969
> deleted\_docs: 0
> }
>
> while the count API returns the 609218 docs:
Do you use the nested mapping at all? Each nested doc counts as a
separate doc, even though it is not visible to the user.
clint
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### Author:  [@Chunlei\_Wu](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Chunlei_Wu)
#### Post date: [January 31, 2013, 10:22pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/max-docs-and-count-api-does-not-return-the-same-number/10561/3 "2013-01-31T22:22:37Z")
Aha, that's exactly right! I do have "nested" type in the mapping file. 87
6969-609218=267751 is the exact number of nested docs.
It's good to know that. Maybe worth mentioning this in "nested type" page.
I was worried if I did the indexing correctly.
Thanks a lot!
Chunlei
On Thursday, January 31, 2013 12:52:45 AM UTC-8, Clinton Gormley wrote:
> On Wed, 2013-01-30 at 11:41 -0800, Chunlei Wu wrote:
>
> > I have a ES cluster with 2 nodes (v0.20.2). I built a new index with
> > 609218 docs without any error (every doc was inserted just once). Then
> > I have this returned from status:
> >
> > docs: {
> > num\_docs: 876969
> > max\_doc: 876969
> > deleted\_docs: 0
> > }
> >
> > while the count API returns the 609218 docs:
>
> Do you use the nested mapping at all? Each nested doc counts as a
> separate doc, even though it is not visible to the user.
>
> clint
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2017, 2:53am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/max-docs-and-count-api-does-not-return-the-same-number/10561/4 "2017-07-06T02:53:41Z")