# Meaning of the fields in \_cat/nodes request?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/meaning-of-the-fields-in-cat-nodes-request/115426>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [January 14, 2018, 3:31am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/meaning-of-the-fields-in-cat-nodes-request/115426 "2018-01-14T03:31:03Z")\
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**Author:** ![apanimesh061](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/apanimesh061/32/927_2.png) [@apanimesh061](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/apanimesh061)\
**Post date:** [January 14, 2018, 3:31am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/meaning-of-the-fields-in-cat-nodes-request/115426/1 "2018-01-14T03:31:03Z")

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For a particular node in my ES cluster, I get the following value:

| Value | Option |
| --- | --- |
| 0 | INDEXING\_DELETE\_CURRENT |
| 43.9s | INDEXING\_DELETE\_TIME |
| 0 | INDEXING\_INDEX\_CURRENT |
| 2.1h | INDEXING\_INDEX\_TIME |
| 0 | SEARCH\_FETCH\_CURRENT |
| 8ms | SEARCH\_FETCH\_TIME |
| 0 | SEARCH\_QUERY\_CURRENT |
| 103ms | SEARCH\_QUERY\_TIME |

Why is `INDEXING_INDEX_TIME` like 2 hrs? Does this indexing is taking 2 hours?

I can't understand what those values mean for that particular node?

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**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:** [January 14, 2018, 3:33am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/meaning-of-the-fields-in-cat-nodes-request/115426/2 "2018-01-14T03:33:01Z")

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It's mentioned here - [cat nodes | Elasticsearch Reference [6.1] | Elastic](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/6.1/cat-nodes.html)

> Time spent in indexing

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**Author:** ![apanimesh061](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/apanimesh061/32/927_2.png) [@apanimesh061](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/apanimesh061)\
**Post date:** [January 14, 2018, 5:44pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/meaning-of-the-fields-in-cat-nodes-request/115426/3 "2018-01-14T17:44:56Z")

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I had gone though that but I was not sure if it is like the sum of all times spent indexing since the creation of that node? or index?

An indexing operation taking 2 hours was not sounding correct to me.

Are all the options I mentioned in the question a cumulative value over a time window?

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**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:** [January 14, 2018, 7:37pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/meaning-of-the-fields-in-cat-nodes-request/115426/4 "2018-01-14T19:37:57Z")

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It's cumulative.

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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:** [February 11, 2018, 7:38pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/meaning-of-the-fields-in-cat-nodes-request/115426/5 "2018-02-11T19:38:02Z")

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