diff --git a/quesma/quesma/functionality/bulk/bulk.go b/quesma/quesma/functionality/bulk/bulk.go
index 1986b20a4..551f54440 100644
--- a/quesma/quesma/functionality/bulk/bulk.go
+++ b/quesma/quesma/functionality/bulk/bulk.go
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ import (
 	"quesma/stats"
 	"quesma/stats/errorstats"
 	"quesma/telemetry"
+	"sync"
 )
 
 type (
@@ -37,7 +38,9 @@ func Write(ctx context.Context, defaultIndex *string, bulk types.NDJSON, lm *cli
 	cfg config.QuesmaConfiguration, phoneHomeAgent telemetry.PhoneHomeAgent) (results []WriteResult) {
 	defer recovery.LogPanic()
 
-	indicesWithDocumentsToInsert := make(map[string][]types.JSON, len(bulk))
+	bulkSize := len(bulk)
+	maybeLogBatchSize(bulkSize / 2) // we divided payload by 2 so that we don't take into account the `action_and_meta_data` line, ref: https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/docs-bulk.html
+	indicesWithDocumentsToInsert := make(map[string][]types.JSON, bulkSize)
 
 	err := bulk.BulkForEach(func(op types.BulkOperation, document types.JSON) {
 
@@ -109,3 +112,17 @@ func Write(ctx context.Context, defaultIndex *string, bulk types.NDJSON, lm *cli
 	}
 	return results
 }
+
+// Global set to keep track of logged batch sizes
+var loggedBatchSizes = make(map[int]struct{})
+var mutex sync.Mutex
+
+// maybeLogBatchSize logs only unique batch sizes
+func maybeLogBatchSize(batchSize int) {
+	mutex.Lock()
+	defer mutex.Unlock()
+	if _, alreadyLogged := loggedBatchSizes[batchSize]; !alreadyLogged {
+		logger.Info().Msgf("Ingesting via _bulk API, batch size=%d documents", batchSize)
+		loggedBatchSizes[batchSize] = struct{}{}
+	}
+}