elasticsearch/docs/reference/esql/functions/count.asciidoc
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Restructure ES|QL docs (#100806)
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[discrete]
[[esql-agg-count]]
=== `COUNT`
Counts field values.
[source.merge.styled,esql]
----
include::{esql-specs}/stats.csv-spec[tag=count]
----
[%header.monospaced.styled,format=dsv,separator=|]
|===
include::{esql-specs}/stats.csv-spec[tag=count-result]
|===
Can take any field type as input and the result is always a `long` not matter
the input type.
To count the number of rows, use `COUNT(*)`:
[source.merge.styled,esql]
----
include::{esql-specs}/docs.csv-spec[tag=countAll]
----
[%header.monospaced.styled,format=dsv,separator=|]
|===
include::{esql-specs}/docs.csv-spec[tag=countAll-result]
|===