# Why is there an Index lag in elasticsearch?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/why-is-there-an-index-lag-in-elasticsearch/98278>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [August 24, 2017, 6:51pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/why-is-there-an-index-lag-in-elasticsearch/98278 "2017-08-24T18:51:29Z")\
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**Author:** ![rajesh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8e7dd6/32.png) [@rajesh](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/rajesh)\
**Post date:** [August 24, 2017, 6:51pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/why-is-there-an-index-lag-in-elasticsearch/98278/1 "2017-08-24T18:51:29Z")

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Hi,

Elasticsearch is indexing the documents with a lag(of 10 minutes). If the actual event is at 11:00am, Elasticsearch shows the index time as 11:10am. That means I am not seeing the logs real time. Can someone please help me with this?

Thanks in advance..

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**Author:** ![jpountz](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/jpountz/32/45836_2.png) [@jpountz](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jpountz)\
**Post date:** [September 1, 2017, 12:37pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/why-is-there-an-index-lag-in-elasticsearch/98278/2 "2017-09-01T12:37:00Z")

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Elasticsearch does not set the timestamp itself so the lag is probably prior ot indexing.

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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:** [September 29, 2017, 12:37pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/why-is-there-an-index-lag-in-elasticsearch/98278/3 "2017-09-29T12:37:15Z")

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