# View last indexed data on elasticsearch
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/view-last-indexed-data-on-elasticsearch/61612
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [September 27, 2016, 1:57pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/view-last-indexed-data-on-elasticsearch/61612 "2016-09-27T13:57:06Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@ANU\_SARA\_VARGHESE](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ANU_SARA_VARGHESE)
#### Post date: [September 27, 2016, 1:57pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/view-last-indexed-data-on-elasticsearch/61612/1 "2016-09-27T13:57:06Z")
Hi,
How can I see the last or the latest indexed data on elasticsearch?
I tried out the url
[http://x.x.x.x:9200/myindex\_name](http://x.x.x.x:9200/myindex_name)
But I can only see the the field names which I had filtered in logstash and not any data.
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### Author:  [@jpountz](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jpountz)
#### Post date: [September 27, 2016, 2:56pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/view-last-indexed-data-on-elasticsearch/61612/2 "2016-09-27T14:56:29Z")
Do something like
```auto
curl -XGET `http://x.x.x.x:9200/myindex_name/_search -d '
{
"sort": [{"_doc": "desc"}]
}
'
```
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### Author:  [@ANU\_SARA\_VARGHESE](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ANU_SARA_VARGHESE)
#### Post date: [September 28, 2016, 10:37am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/view-last-indexed-data-on-elasticsearch/61612/3 "2016-09-28T10:37:41Z")
Hi Adrien,
I had tried this out. But I am not getting the current indexed data.
In kibana, I could see the latest data indexed. But through the url I am only able to see data which dates some 2 weeks ago. Moreover, I could even see the exact total counts using the url
[http://x.x.x.x:9200/\_cat/count](http://x.x.x.x:9200/_cat/count)
Why is that I am not able to see the current indexed data?
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### Author:  [@jpountz](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jpountz)
#### Post date: [September 28, 2016, 3:20pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/view-last-indexed-data-on-elasticsearch/61612/4 "2016-09-28T15:20:33Z")
I think you are just not sorting based on the appropriate field? I did not know you had a timestamp field, so maybe what you are looking after is the following API call:
```auto
curl -XGET `http://x.x.x.x:9200/myindex_name/_search -d '
{
"sort": [{"timestamp": "desc"}]
}
'
```
Just make sure to replace `timestamp` with the actual name of your timestamp field.
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### Author:  [@ANU\_SARA\_VARGHESE](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ANU_SARA_VARGHESE)
#### Post date: [September 29, 2016, 5:56am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/view-last-indexed-data-on-elasticsearch/61612/5 "2016-09-29T05:56:47Z")
Thanks Adrien. It worked
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 5, 2017, 10:16pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/view-last-indexed-data-on-elasticsearch/61612/6 "2017-07-05T22:16:18Z")