# Node Stats : Which metrics are cumulative?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/node-stats-which-metrics-are-cumulative/75004>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [February 14, 2017, 9:58am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/node-stats-which-metrics-are-cumulative/75004 "2017-02-14T09:58:27Z")\
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**Author:** ![anshulagrawal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c89c15/32.png) [@anshulagrawal](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/anshulagrawal)\
**Post date:** [February 14, 2017, 9:58am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/node-stats-which-metrics-are-cumulative/75004/1 "2017-02-14T09:58:27Z")

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Hi,

We have setup certain alarms on metrics that are obtained in node stats, and would like to understand if there is a list of metrics which are cumulative in node stats output obtained from elastic search.

By cumulative I mean, new numbers are added on to the existing numbers from the start of that node in the cluster.

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**Author:** ![tanguy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/tanguy/32/6030_2.png) [@tanguy](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/tanguy)\
**Post date:** [February 14, 2017, 10:02am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/node-stats-which-metrics-are-cumulative/75004/2 "2017-02-14T10:02:22Z")

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Hi,

I don't think that there are cumulative stats, but some stats are counters and therefore can be incremented in time (like the number of read operations, the number of documents etc)

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**Author:** ![anshulagrawal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c89c15/32.png) [@anshulagrawal](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/anshulagrawal)\
**Post date:** [February 14, 2017, 2:01pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/node-stats-which-metrics-are-cumulative/75004/3 "2017-02-14T14:01:48Z")

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Hi,

Yes the counters one. Is there a list for these metrics which are incremented in time ? The names are not intuitive enough for increments.

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**Author:** ![tanguy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/tanguy/32/6030_2.png) [@tanguy](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/tanguy)\
**Post date:** [February 14, 2017, 2:10pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/node-stats-which-metrics-are-cumulative/75004/4 "2017-02-14T14:10:30Z")

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No, I don't think there's such list.

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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:** [March 14, 2017, 2:11pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/node-stats-which-metrics-are-cumulative/75004/5 "2017-03-14T14:11:06Z")

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