# Visualize Amount of Data written to elastic in the last 24h per Index

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/visualize-amount-of-data-written-to-elastic-in-the-last-24h-per-index/258988
**Category:** Kibana
**Created:** [December 17, 2020, 12:30pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/visualize-amount-of-data-written-to-elastic-in-the-last-24h-per-index/258988 "2020-12-17T12:30:54Z")
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### Author: ![Kosodrom](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/kosodrom/32/99278_2.png) [@Kosodrom](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Kosodrom)
#### Post date: [December 17, 2020, 12:30pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/visualize-amount-of-data-written-to-elastic-in-the-last-24h-per-index/258988/1 "2020-12-17T12:30:54Z")

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Hi folks,

I have following use case:

I want to have a visualization (lets say a gauge) which indicates how much data customer writes to an index in the last 24h

Can you help me about how I can achive this?

So far in the .monitoring-es\* index I can read out `index_stats.primaries.store.size_in_bytes` which indicates (as far as I understood) total size of all primary shards in indices but how I am able to seperate it by different indices ?

appreciate any help

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### Author: ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)
#### Post date: [December 17, 2020, 10:16pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/visualize-amount-of-data-written-to-elastic-in-the-last-24h-per-index/258988/2 "2020-12-17T22:16:40Z")

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Do you have an index per customer?

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### Author: ![Kosodrom](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/kosodrom/32/99278_2.png) [@Kosodrom](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Kosodrom)
#### Post date: [December 21, 2020, 10:57am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/visualize-amount-of-data-written-to-elastic-in-the-last-24h-per-index/258988/3 "2020-12-21T10:57:37Z")

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I have some indices dedicated to certain platforms (such as kubernetes cluster logs), some dedicated to specific customer. So more generic description of the use case would be:

Create a visualization of data written to the cluster (for example as gauge GB/DAY) based on index name (how much data written to the index) or field of the document in an index (how much data written with field = xyz to the index = 123).

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### Author: ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)
#### Post date: [December 21, 2020, 9:44pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/visualize-amount-of-data-written-to-elastic-in-the-last-24h-per-index/258988/4 "2020-12-21T21:44:00Z")

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You can't do per field stats like that.  
Otherwise look at the Monitoring functionality - [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/monitor-elasticsearch-cluster.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/monitor-elasticsearch-cluster.html)

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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: [January 18, 2021, 9:44pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/visualize-amount-of-data-written-to-elastic-in-the-last-24h-per-index/258988/5 "2021-01-18T21:44:04Z")

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