What do these numbers mean in ElasticSearch head?

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Solution

The first number is `num_docs`, the second number is `max_docs`. Both are provided by the Index Status API

- `num_docs` is simple: it is the number of documents living inside your index at this moment

- `max_docs` is a bit more nebulous, I believe it is the max docs your index has seen before a merge removed the deleted docs. It also includes nested documents, which internally are a new doc but appear as a single doc to the end-user

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