Configuration : Appendix - Search API Parameters : The Search Results
 
The Search Results
This section describes the main results of the Search command.
Result
Description
estimated="true"
When the synthesis or the number of results is not exact, because of errors linked to timeout, limits or data sampling.
status="limited"
When the query is stopped because it has reached the "heap sort" limit. It occurs only when the limitation comes from the Search Server, not from the slice.
status="timeout"
When the query has been either partially or totally stopped because it reached the timeout limit.
If the query status is not error/timeout
if the query returned fewer hits / partial synthesis because of the use of max_fetched_hits, then:
status="limited" in heap sort
status="ok" in all other modes (local sort, unrankedsort, and unrankedstream)
if the query returned fewer hits / partial synthesis because of the use of max_fetched_hits_per_slice, then:
status="ok" in all modes because information of limited answer is not communicated from the index to the Search Server.