# Possible to see how 'busy' an index is vis-a-vis updates?
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/possible-to-see-how-busy-an-index-is-vis-a-vis-updates/22159
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [February 13, 2015, 7:32pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/possible-to-see-how-busy-an-index-is-vis-a-vis-updates/22159 "2015-02-13T19:32:00Z")
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### Author:  [@MrLarryQ](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/MrLarryQ)
#### Post date: [February 13, 2015, 7:32pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/possible-to-see-how-busy-an-index-is-vis-a-vis-updates/22159/1 "2015-02-13T19:32:00Z")
Hi everyone,
We use elasticsearch at work and it's terrific. One thing we do use is run
various curl commands against its status and cluster health apis, to make
sure the cluster's in good shape before we run queries in our scripts.
However, sometimes our logging infrastructure backs up and doesn't populate
the indices as quickly as it should. In situations like these when I query
an index I'll get either no hits or a very low number.
Is there an API I can use to see whether an index is being updated
periodically?
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### Author:  [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)
#### Post date: [February 16, 2015, 7:58am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/possible-to-see-how-busy-an-index-is-vis-a-vis-updates/22159/2 "2015-02-16T07:58:14Z")
You can do a count and then monitor that, but there is not a specific API
endpoint for this sort of thing (unless I forgot one).
On 14 February 2015 at 06:32, MrLarryQ [lquantz@gmail.com](mailto:lquantz@gmail.com) wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> We use elasticsearch at work and it's terrific. One thing we do use is
> run various curl commands against its status and cluster health apis, to
> make sure the cluster's in good shape before we run queries in our scripts.
>
> However, sometimes our logging infrastructure backs up and doesn't
> populate the indices as quickly as it should. In situations like these
> when I query an index I'll get either no hits or a very low number.
>
> Is there an API I can use to see whether an index is being updated
> periodically?
>
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2017, 12:32am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/possible-to-see-how-busy-an-index-is-vis-a-vis-updates/22159/3 "2017-07-06T00:32:35Z")