# Overall Query TIme in Elastic Search
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/overall-query-time-in-elastic-search/28004
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [August 25, 2015, 11:57am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/overall-query-time-in-elastic-search/28004 "2015-08-25T11:57:49Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@Deb](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Deb)
#### Post date: [August 25, 2015, 11:57am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/overall-query-time-in-elastic-search/28004/1 "2015-08-25T11:57:49Z")
As mentioned [here](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/guide/current/_monitoring_individual_nodes.html#_indices_section):- the query consists of two phases search and fetch. Their timings are given by search\_\* and fetch\_\* from the node stats. Is there a way I can get the average query time (which includes both search and fetch phase?
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### Author:  [@jpountz](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jpountz)
#### Post date: [August 25, 2015, 2:24pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/overall-query-time-in-elastic-search/28004/2 "2015-08-25T14:24:12Z")
The overall search time would just be the sum of the query and fetch phases?
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### Author:  [@Deb](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Deb)
#### Post date: [August 26, 2015, 6:31am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/overall-query-time-in-elastic-search/28004/3 "2015-08-26T06:31:24Z")
I also thought the same but then I am seeing the query\_total and fetch\_total are not same. For example from the \_node/stats I am getting the below output:-
```
"search": {
"open_contexts": 0,
"query_total": 16,
"query_time_in_millis": 1427,
"query_current": 0,
"fetch_total": 5,
"fetch_time_in_millis": 181,
"fetch_current": 0
}
```
So I think I can't do a simple addition.
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### Author:  [@jpountz](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jpountz)
#### Post date: [August 26, 2015, 12:11pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/overall-query-time-in-elastic-search/28004/4 "2015-08-26T12:11:02Z")
This is because we only perform the fetch phase on shards that have competitive hits. For instance if you have 5 shards and the top 10 docs are all on shards 0 and 3, then elasticsearch won't perform a fetch phase on shards 1, 2 and 5.
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### Author:  [@Deb](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Deb)
#### Post date: [August 26, 2015, 12:50pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/overall-query-time-in-elastic-search/28004/5 "2015-08-26T12:50:12Z")
Ohk Thanks Adrian.
Can you let me know what is the different between `open_contexts` & `query_current`?
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 5, 2017, 11:53pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/overall-query-time-in-elastic-search/28004/6 "2017-07-05T23:53:50Z")