# MonitoringDatapointsForIndexingBegin

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Struct for a set of monitoring datapoints for the beginning of an indexing operation.

- **Full name:** `MFiles.MonitoringDatapointsForIndexingBegin`
- **Proto file:** [`mfiles/structs.proto`](https://developer.m-files.com/APIs/gRPC-API/downloads/proto/mfiles/structs.proto)

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## Fields

| Field | Type | Number | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| <a id="f-batch_mode"></a>`batch_mode` | [`IndexingMode`](https://developer.m-files.com/APIs/gRPC-API/Reference/Enums/MFiles.IndexingMode/index.md) | 1 | If not eimUnknown, identifies the current indexing mode. Values: `INDEXING_MODE_UNKNOWN` (0), `INDEXING_MODE_IDLE` (1), `INDEXING_MODE_NORMAL` (2), `INDEXING_MODE_DESTRUCTIONS` (3), `INDEXING_MODE_REBUILD_NORMAL` (4), `INDEXING_MODE_REBUILD_DESTRUCTIONS` (5), `INDEXING_MODE_RELEVANCE` (6), `INDEXING_MODE_ACL` (7). |
| <a id="f-start_position"></a>`start_position` | [`StringValue`](https://developer.m-files.com/APIs/gRPC-API/Reference/Messages/MFiles.StringValue/index.md) | 2 | If set, identifies the starting logical timestamp string. unset indicates "not applicable". |
| <a id="f-items_to_process_at"></a>`items_to_process_at` | [`google.protobuf.Timestamp`](https://protobuf.dev/reference/protobuf/google.protobuf/#timestamp) | 3 | If not a zero timestamp, identifies the time (in UTC) of the counter of the items to process. |
| <a id="f-items_to_process_total"></a>`items_to_process_total` | `int32` | 4 | If not -1, specifies the total number of the items to be processed (partitioning ignored). |
| <a id="f-items_to_process"></a>`items_to_process` | `int32` | 5 | If not -1, specifies the possibly approximated number of the items to be processed partition-wise. |

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## Used by methods

- [IRPCMonitoringDatapointsSink.PushDatapointsForIndexingBegin](https://developer.m-files.com/APIs/gRPC-API/Reference/MFiles.IRPCMonitoringDatapointsSink/PushDatapointsForIndexingBegin/index.md): Stores the data points of the start of an indexing batch: the indexing mode, the start position and the number of items to process.

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## Used in fields

- [`PushDatapointsForIndexingBeginRequest.datapoints`](https://developer.m-files.com/APIs/gRPC-API/Reference/MFiles.IRPCMonitoringDatapointsSink/PushDatapointsForIndexingBegin/index.md#request): The monitoring datapoints.