diff --git a/crates/meilitool/src/upgrade/v1_12.rs b/crates/meilitool/src/upgrade/v1_12.rs
index 7a9e71e7e..513637759 100644
--- a/crates/meilitool/src/upgrade/v1_12.rs
+++ b/crates/meilitool/src/upgrade/v1_12.rs
@@ -10,11 +10,15 @@ use anyhow::Context;
 use file_store::FileStore;
 use indexmap::IndexMap;
 use meilisearch_types::milli::documents::DocumentsBatchReader;
-use milli::heed::types::Str;
-use milli::heed::{Database, EnvOpenOptions};
+use milli::heed::types::{SerdeJson, Str};
+use milli::heed::{Database, EnvOpenOptions, RoTxn, RwTxn};
 use milli::progress::Step;
+use milli::{FieldDistribution, Index};
+use serde::Serialize;
 use serde_json::value::RawValue;
 use tempfile::NamedTempFile;
+use time::OffsetDateTime;
+use uuid::Uuid;
 
 use crate::try_opening_database;
 use crate::uuid_codec::UuidCodec;
@@ -100,20 +104,30 @@ fn rebuild_field_distribution(db_path: &Path) -> anyhow::Result<()> {
     let env = unsafe { EnvOpenOptions::new().max_dbs(100).open(&index_scheduler_path) }
         .with_context(|| format!("While trying to open {:?}", index_scheduler_path.display()))?;
 
-    let sched_rtxn = env.read_txn()?;
+    let mut sched_wtxn = env.write_txn()?;
 
     let index_mapping: Database<Str, UuidCodec> =
-        try_opening_database(&env, &sched_rtxn, "index-mapping")?;
+        try_opening_database(&env, &sched_wtxn, "index-mapping")?;
+    let stats_db: Database<UuidCodec, SerdeJson<IndexStats>> =
+        try_opening_database(&env, &sched_wtxn, "index-stats").with_context(|| {
+            format!("While trying to open {:?}", index_scheduler_path.display())
+        })?;
 
     let index_count =
-        index_mapping.len(&sched_rtxn).context("while reading the number of indexes")?;
+        index_mapping.len(&sched_wtxn).context("while reading the number of indexes")?;
+
+    // FIXME: not ideal, we have to pre-populate all indexes to prevent double borrow of sched_wtxn
+    // 1. immutably for the iteration
+    // 2. mutably for updating index stats
+    let indexes: Vec<_> = index_mapping
+        .iter(&sched_wtxn)?
+        .map(|res| res.map(|(uid, uuid)| (uid.to_owned(), uuid)))
+        .collect();
 
     let progress = milli::progress::Progress::default();
     let finished = AtomicBool::new(false);
 
     std::thread::scope(|scope| {
-        let indexes = index_mapping.iter(&sched_rtxn)?;
-
         let display_progress = std::thread::Builder::new()
             .name("display_progress".into())
             .spawn_scoped(scope, || {
@@ -128,10 +142,10 @@ fn rebuild_field_distribution(db_path: &Path) -> anyhow::Result<()> {
             })
             .unwrap();
 
-        for (index_index, result) in indexes.enumerate() {
+        for (index_index, result) in indexes.into_iter().enumerate() {
             let (uid, uuid) = result?;
             progress.update_progress(VariableNameStep::new(
-                uid,
+                &uid,
                 index_index as u32,
                 index_count as u32,
             ));
@@ -155,10 +169,14 @@ fn rebuild_field_distribution(db_path: &Path) -> anyhow::Result<()> {
             milli::update::new::reindex::field_distribution(&index, &mut index_txn, &progress)
                 .context("while rebuilding field distribution")?;
 
+            let stats = IndexStats::new(&index, &index_txn)
+                .with_context(|| format!("computing stats for index `{uid}`"))?;
+            store_stats_of(stats_db, uuid, &mut sched_wtxn, &uid, &stats)?;
+
             index_txn.commit().context("while committing the write txn for the updated index")?;
         }
 
-        sched_rtxn.commit().context("while committing the write txn for the index-scheduler")?;
+        sched_wtxn.commit().context("while committing the write txn for the index-scheduler")?;
 
         finished.store(true, std::sync::atomic::Ordering::Relaxed);
 
@@ -203,3 +221,60 @@ impl Step for VariableNameStep {
         self.total
     }
 }
+
+pub fn store_stats_of(
+    stats_db: Database<UuidCodec, SerdeJson<IndexStats>>,
+    index_uuid: Uuid,
+    sched_wtxn: &mut RwTxn,
+    index_uid: &str,
+    stats: &IndexStats,
+) -> anyhow::Result<()> {
+    stats_db
+        .put(sched_wtxn, &index_uuid, stats)
+        .with_context(|| format!("storing stats for index `{index_uid}`"))?;
+    Ok(())
+}
+
+/// The statistics that can be computed from an `Index` object.
+#[derive(Serialize, Debug)]
+pub struct IndexStats {
+    /// Number of documents in the index.
+    pub number_of_documents: u64,
+    /// Size taken up by the index' DB, in bytes.
+    ///
+    /// This includes the size taken by both the used and free pages of the DB, and as the free pages
+    /// are not returned to the disk after a deletion, this number is typically larger than
+    /// `used_database_size` that only includes the size of the used pages.
+    pub database_size: u64,
+    /// Size taken by the used pages of the index' DB, in bytes.
+    ///
+    /// As the DB backend does not return to the disk the pages that are not currently used by the DB,
+    /// this value is typically smaller than `database_size`.
+    pub used_database_size: u64,
+    /// Association of every field name with the number of times it occurs in the documents.
+    pub field_distribution: FieldDistribution,
+    /// Creation date of the index.
+    #[serde(with = "time::serde::rfc3339")]
+    pub created_at: OffsetDateTime,
+    /// Date of the last update of the index.
+    #[serde(with = "time::serde::rfc3339")]
+    pub updated_at: OffsetDateTime,
+}
+
+impl IndexStats {
+    /// Compute the stats of an index
+    ///
+    /// # Parameters
+    ///
+    /// - rtxn: a RO transaction for the index, obtained from `Index::read_txn()`.
+    pub fn new(index: &Index, rtxn: &RoTxn) -> milli::Result<Self> {
+        Ok(IndexStats {
+            number_of_documents: index.number_of_documents(rtxn)?,
+            database_size: index.on_disk_size()?,
+            used_database_size: index.used_size()?,
+            field_distribution: index.field_distribution(rtxn)?,
+            created_at: index.created_at(rtxn)?,
+            updated_at: index.updated_at(rtxn)?,
+        })
+    }
+}