The Luke request handler (normally available at <solr>/admin/luke) will give you the document count (not size on the disk, though, if that's what you want) and last update and other info:
<lst name="index"> <int name="numDocs">14591</int> <int name="maxDoc">14598</int> <int name="numTerms">128730</int> <long name="version">1196962176380</long> <bool name="optimized">false</bool> <bool name="current">true</bool> <bool name="hasDeletions">true</bool> <str name="directory">.... s/solr/data/index</str> <date name="lastModified">2009-11-19T16:44:45Z</date> </lst> See http://wiki.apache.org/solr/LukeRequestHandler Peter > -----Original Message----- > From: Joel Nylund [mailto:jnyl...@yahoo.com] > Sent: Thursday, November 19, 2009 8:31 AM > To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org > Subject: getting total index size & last update date/time from query > > Hi, > > Looking for total number of documents in my index and the > last updated date/time of the index. > > Is there a way to get this through the standard query q=? > > if not, what is the best way to get this info from solr. > > thanks > Joel > >