# Snapshot stats

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/snapshot-stats/96409>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [August 9, 2017, 9:42am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/snapshot-stats/96409 "2017-08-09T09:42:24Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![living\_jordi](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/living_jordi/32/61363_2.png) [@living\_jordi](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/living_jordi)\
**Post date:** [August 9, 2017, 9:42am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/snapshot-stats/96409/1 "2017-08-09T09:42:25Z")

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Is there any way to get thw size of an snapshot or the number of documents?

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**Author:** ![Igor\_Motov](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/igor_motov/32/45193_2.png) [@Igor\_Motov](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Igor_Motov)\
**Post date:** [August 11, 2017, 1:34pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/snapshot-stats/96409/2 "2017-08-11T13:34:21Z")

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Snapshot [status](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/5.5/modules-snapshots.html#_snapshot_status) will give you the size. We don't store the number of documents with the snapshot, so it cannot be obtained.

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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:** [September 8, 2017, 1:34pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/snapshot-stats/96409/3 "2017-09-08T13:34:23Z")

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