# What are least and most usage estimates

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-are-least-and-most-usage-estimates/334630>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [May 30, 2023, 2:45am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-are-least-and-most-usage-estimates/334630 "2023-05-30T02:45:13Z")\
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**Author:** ![kpachar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/c4cdca/32.png) [@kpachar](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/kpachar)\
**Post date:** [May 30, 2023, 2:45am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-are-least-and-most-usage-estimates/334630/1 "2023-05-30T02:45:13Z")

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Hello everyone,

The node stats API returns `least_usage_estimate` and `most_usage_estimate`. What are these, and how are they different from `total`?

Thank you

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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:** [May 30, 2023, 3:21am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-are-least-and-most-usage-estimates/334630/2 "2023-05-30T03:21:10Z")

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What version are you running and what is the full API request you are sending?

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**Author:** ![kpachar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/c4cdca/32.png) [@kpachar](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/kpachar)\
**Post date:** [May 30, 2023, 3:25am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-are-least-and-most-usage-estimates/334630/3 "2023-05-30T03:25:11Z")

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Thank you.

It was 7.0.1.  
I checked in 7.17 and 8.16 now, and it seems that they were removed from the output. I will stick with using just the `total` then

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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:** [June 27, 2023, 3:25am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-are-least-and-most-usage-estimates/334630/4 "2023-06-27T03:25:54Z")

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