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Field usage stats API

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Field usage stats API

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This functionality is in technical preview and may be changed or removed in a future release. Elastic will work to fix any issues, but features in technical preview are not subject to the support SLA of official GA features.

Returns field usage information for each shard and field of an index. Field usage statistics are automatically captured when queries are running on a cluster. A shard-level search request that accesses a given field, even if multiple times during that request, is counted as a single use.

GET /my-index-000001/_field_usage_stats

Request

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GET /<index>/_field_usage_stats

Prerequisites

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If the Elasticsearch security features are enabled, you must have the manage index privilege for the target index or index alias.

Path parameters

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<index>: (Optional, string) Comma-separated list or wildcard expression of index names used to limit the request.

Query parameters

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allow_no_indices

(Optional, Boolean) If false, the request returns an error if any wildcard expression, index alias, or _all value targets only missing or closed indices. This behavior applies even if the request targets other open indices. For example, a request targeting foo*,bar* returns an error if an index starts with foo but no index starts with bar.

expand_wildcards

(Optional, string) Type of index that wildcard patterns can match. If the request can target data streams, this argument determines whether wildcard expressions match hidden data streams. Supports comma-separated values, such as open,hidden. Valid values are:

all: Match any data stream or index, including hidden ones.
open: Match open, non-hidden indices. Also matches any non-hidden data stream.
closed: Match closed, non-hidden indices. Also matches any non-hidden data stream. Data streams cannot be closed.
hidden: Match hidden data streams and hidden indices. Must be combined with open, closed, or both.
none: Wildcard patterns are not accepted.

ignore_unavailable

(Optional, Boolean) If false, the request returns an error if it targets a missing or closed index. Defaults to false.

wait_for_active_shards

(Optional, string) The number of shard copies that must be active before proceeding with the operation. Set to all or any positive integer up to the total number of shards in the index (number_of_replicas+1). Default: 1, the primary shard.

See Active shards.

master_timeout

(Optional, time units) Period to wait for a connection to the master node. If no response is received before the timeout expires, the request fails and returns an error. Defaults to 30s.

timeout

(Optional, time units) Period to wait for a response. If no response is received before the timeout expires, the request fails and returns an error. Defaults to 30s.

fields

(Optional, string) Comma-separated list or wildcard expressions of fields to include in the statistics.

Examples

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The following request retrieves field usage information of index my-index-000001 on the currently available shards.

GET /my-index-000001/_field_usage_stats

The API returns the following response:

{
    "_shards": {
        "total": 1,
        "successful": 1,
        "failed": 0
    },
    "my-index-000001": {
        "shards": [
            {
                "tracking_id": "MpOl0QlTQ4SYYhEe6KgJoQ",
                "tracking_started_at_millis": 1625558985010,
                "routing": {
                    "state": "STARTED",
                    "primary": true,
                    "node": "gA6KeeVzQkGURFCUyV-e8Q",
                    "relocating_node": null
                },
                "stats" : {
                    "all_fields": {
                        "any": "6", 
                        "inverted_index": {
                            "terms" : 1,
                            "postings" : 1,
                            "proximity" : 1, 
                            "positions" : 0,
                            "term_frequencies" : 1,
                            "offsets" : 0,
                            "payloads" : 0
                        },
                        "stored_fields" : 2,
                        "doc_values" : 1,
                        "points" : 0,
                        "norms" : 1,
                        "term_vectors" : 0,
                        "knn_vectors" : 0
                    },
                    "fields": {
                        "_id": {
                            "any" : 1,
                            "inverted_index": {
                                "terms" : 1,
                                "postings" : 1,
                                "proximity" : 1,
                                "positions" : 0,
                                "term_frequencies" : 1,
                                "offsets" : 0,
                                "payloads" : 0
                            },
                            "stored_fields" : 1,
                            "doc_values" : 0,
                            "points" : 0,
                            "norms" : 0,
                            "term_vectors" : 0,
                            "knn_vectors" : 0
                        },
                        "_source": {...},
                        "context": {...},
                        "message.keyword": {...}
                    }
                }
            }
        ]
    }
}

	denotes any kind of use of the field, either inverted index, or stored fields, or doc values, etc.
	denotes any kind of use of either positions, offsets or payloads.

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