How to quickly count total events in an index?

[muebel]

Besides running "index=foo *" is there a way to quickly check the total number of events indexed in an index?

[gkanapathy · Accepted solution]

| eventcount index=foo

http://www.splunk.com/base/Documentation/latest/SearchReference/Eventcount

[ftk]

That's way slicker than | metadata type=hosts index=foo | stats sum(totalCount)...awesome.

[bgagliardi1]

I found this article just now because I wanted to do something similar, but i have dozens of indexes, and wanted a sum by index over X time.

index=* | chart count(index) by index | sort - count(index) | rename count(index) as "Sum of Events"

[earlhelms]

6 years later, thanks!