# The question on search: docs.count not equal hits.total
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/the-question-on-search-docs-count-not-equal-hits-total/19356
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [August 20, 2014, 3:27am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/the-question-on-search-docs-count-not-equal-hits-total/19356 "2014-08-20T03:27:12Z")
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### Author:  [@Arvin\_Wong](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Arvin_Wong)
#### Post date: [August 20, 2014, 3:27am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/the-question-on-search-docs-count-not-equal-hits-total/19356/1 "2014-08-20T03:27:12Z")
Hi,
When I scan my indices, it shows that:
```
health
```
index pri rep docs.count
docs.deleted store.size pri.store.size
green flume-2014-08-19-content-news
5 1 5849 0
36.4mb 18.4mb
```
And, I scan the total document in flume-2014-08-19-content-new, it
```
shows that:
```
$ curl -XGET
```
'localhost:9200/flume-2014-08-19-content-news/\_search?pretty'
{
"took" : 6,
"timed\_out" : false,
"\_shards" : {
"total" : 5,
"successful" : 5,
"failed" : 0
},
"hits" : {
"total" : 1658,
"max\_score" : 1.0,
We just add data to this index, BUT the two number is different.
I have no diea about it. Who can tell me why.
Many thanks.
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### Author:  [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)
#### Post date: [August 20, 2014, 6:03am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/the-question-on-search-docs-count-not-equal-hits-total/19356/2 "2014-08-20T06:03:28Z")
You probably updates some docs, right?
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> Le 20 août 2014 à 05:27, Arvin Wong [wmx3ng@gmail.com](mailto:wmx3ng@gmail.com) a écrit :
>
> Hi,
> When I scan my indices, it shows that:
>
> ```
> health index pri rep docs.count docs.deleted store.size pri.store.size
> green flume-2014-08-19-content-news 5 1 5849 0 36.4mb 18.4mb
>
> And, I scan the total document in flume-2014-08-19-content-new, it shows that:
>
> $ curl -XGET 'localhost:9200/flume-2014-08-19-content-news/_search?pretty'
>
> ```
>
> {
> "took" : 6,
> "timed\_out" : false,
> "\_shards" : {
> "total" : 5,
> "successful" : 5,
> "failed" : 0
> },
> "hits" : {
> "total" : 1658,
> "max\_score" : 1.0,
>
> We just add data to this index, BUT the two number is different.
> I have no diea about it. Who can tell me why.
>
> Many thanks.
>
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### Author:  [@vineeth\_mohan\_2](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/vineeth_mohan_2)
#### Post date: [August 20, 2014, 6:05am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/the-question-on-search-docs-count-not-equal-hits-total/19356/3 "2014-08-20T06:05:11Z")
Hello Arvin ,
This can also happen when you have nested types.
docs.count would be total of documents including nested ones.
Thanks
Vineeth
On Wed, Aug 20, 2014 at 8:57 AM, Arvin Wong [wmx3ng@gmail.com](mailto:wmx3ng@gmail.com) wrote:
> Hi,
> When I scan my indices, it shows that:
>
> ```
> health
>
> ```
>
> index pri rep docs.count
> docs.deleted store.size pri.store.size
> green flume-2014-08-19-content-news
> 5 1 5849 0
> 36.4mb 18.4mb
>
> ```
> And, I scan the total document in flume-2014-08-19-content-new, it
>
> ```
>
> shows that:
>
> ```
> $ curl -XGET
>
> ```
>
> 'localhost:9200/flume-2014-08-19-content-news/\_search?pretty'
> {
> "took" : 6,
> "timed\_out" : false,
> "\_shards" : {
> "total" : 5,
> "successful" : 5,
> "failed" : 0
> },
> "hits" : {
> "total" : 1658,
> "max\_score" : 1.0,
>
> We just add data to this index, BUT the two number is different.
> I have no diea about it. Who can tell me why.
>
> Many thanks.
>
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### Author:  [@Arvin\_Wong](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Arvin_Wong)
#### Post date: [August 20, 2014, 6:32am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/the-question-on-search-docs-count-not-equal-hits-total/19356/4 "2014-08-20T06:32:12Z")
That's it . I'm 'Too Y Too S'. Thank you Very Much.
在 2014年8月20日星期三UTC+8下午2时05分28秒，vineeth mohan写道：
> Hello Arvin ,
>
> This can also happen when you have nested types.
> docs.count would be total of documents including nested ones.
>
> Thanks
> Vineeth
>
> On Wed, Aug 20, 2014 at 8:57 AM, Arvin Wong \<[wmx...@gmail.com](mailto:wmx...@gmail.com)
> \\> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> > When I scan my indices, it shows that:
> >
> > ```
> > health
> >
> > ```
> >
> > index pri rep docs.count
> > docs.deleted store.size pri.store.size
> > green flume-2014-08-19-content-news
> > 5 1 5849 0
> > 36.4mb 18.4mb
> >
> > ```
> > And, I scan the total document in flume-2014-08-19-content-new, it
> >
> > ```
> >
> > shows that:
> >
> > ```
> > $ curl -XGET
> >
> > ```
> >
> > 'localhost:9200/flume-2014-08-19-content-news/\_search?pretty'
> > {
> > "took" : 6,
> > "timed\_out" : false,
> > "\_shards" : {
> > "total" : 5,
> > "successful" : 5,
> > "failed" : 0
> > },
> > "hits" : {
> > "total" : 1658,
> > "max\_score" : 1.0,
> >
> > We just add data to this index, BUT the two number is different.
> > I have no diea about it. Who can tell me why.
> >
> > Many thanks.
> >
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2017, 1:07am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/the-question-on-search-docs-count-not-equal-hits-total/19356/5 "2017-07-06T01:07:31Z")