# What does indices.indexing.index\_current counter mean?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-does-indices-indexing-index-current-counter-mean/18407>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [July 1, 2014, 5:52am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-does-indices-indexing-index-current-counter-mean/18407 "2014-07-01T05:52:25Z")\
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**Author:** ![Jeffz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@Jeffz](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Jeffz)\
**Post date:** [July 1, 2014, 5:52am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-does-indices-indexing-index-current-counter-mean/18407/1 "2014-07-01T05:52:25Z")

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I user 'GET /\_nodes/es-diag-20/stats' to get the states of a node, does anyone know what 'indices.indexing.index\_current' counter mean? For example :

```
        "indexing": {
           "index_total": 452856851,
           "index_time_in_millis": 1566958538,
           <h3>"index_current": 2726089, </h3>
           "delete_total": 0,
           "delete_time_in_millis": 0,
           "delete_current": 0
        }

```

Seems that it means the indexing operations are occurring on this node, but that's too huge to me. Any idea?

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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:** [July 6, 2017, 1:18am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-does-indices-indexing-index-current-counter-mean/18407/2 "2017-07-06T01:18:48Z")

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