# What does \_search api stats tag do?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-does-search-api-stats-tag-do/149750>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [September 25, 2018, 12:43am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-does-search-api-stats-tag-do/149750 "2018-09-25T00:43:29Z")\
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**Author:** ![antonioG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e99b99/32.png) [@antonioG](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/antonioG)\
**Post date:** [September 25, 2018, 12:43am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-does-search-api-stats-tag-do/149750/1 "2018-09-25T00:43:29Z")

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I am trying to collect data while a user is using the \_search API and I stumbled into a tag that can be put into the search query that might simplify everything for me but I can't find enough information on it.

Does the stats tag in a \_search body affect anything; like the results returned?

The only information I could find on it was this page [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/client/javascript-api/current/api-reference.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/client/javascript-api/current/api-reference.html) and all that it states is _String, String[], Boolean — Specific tag of the request for logging and statistical purposes_ . Is elasticsearch actually logging it somewhere?

Example of my \_search request:

```
GET myindex/doc/_search
{
  "query": {
    "match_all": {}
  }, 
  "stats": ["my string of data"]
}
```

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**Author:** ![antonioG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e99b99/32.png) [@antonioG](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/antonioG)\
**Post date:** [September 25, 2018, 1:39am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-does-search-api-stats-tag-do/149750/2 "2018-09-25T01:39:09Z")

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This question was answered for me here: [https://stackoverflow.com/questions/52488959/what-does-elasticsearch-search-api-stats-tag-do/52489368#52489368](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/52488959/what-does-elasticsearch-search-api-stats-tag-do/52489368#52489368)

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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:** [October 23, 2018, 1:39am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-does-search-api-stats-tag-do/149750/3 "2018-10-23T01:39:14Z")

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Closed on October 23, 2018, 1:39am UTC

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