diff --git a/ChangeLog.md b/ChangeLog.md
index 0b8af87bf..5d7c20970 100644
--- a/ChangeLog.md
+++ b/ChangeLog.md
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ The format is based on [Keep a Changelog](http://keepachangelog.com/en/1.0.0/) a
 
 ## [Unreleased]
 
+- added support for index estimates (ArangoDB v3.8)
 - added support for ArangoSearch `AQL`, `Pipeline`, `Stopwords`, `GeoJSON`, `GeoPoint` analyzers
 - fixed active failover behavior for the asynchronous driver 
 - deprecated `ArangoIterable` methods in favour of Java 8 Stream equivalents
diff --git a/src/main/java/com/arangodb/entity/IndexEntity.java b/src/main/java/com/arangodb/entity/IndexEntity.java
index 5be2d0b87..b359a5146 100644
--- a/src/main/java/com/arangodb/entity/IndexEntity.java
+++ b/src/main/java/com/arangodb/entity/IndexEntity.java
@@ -41,6 +41,7 @@ public class IndexEntity implements Entity {
     private Boolean deduplicate;
     private Integer expireAfter;
     private Boolean inBackground;
+    private Boolean estimates;
 
     public IndexEntity() {
         super();
@@ -102,4 +103,8 @@ public Boolean getDeduplicate() {
         return deduplicate;
     }
 
+    public Boolean getEstimates() {
+        return estimates;
+    }
+
 }
diff --git a/src/main/java/com/arangodb/model/HashIndexOptions.java b/src/main/java/com/arangodb/model/HashIndexOptions.java
index 992c79281..20eff1d44 100644
--- a/src/main/java/com/arangodb/model/HashIndexOptions.java
+++ b/src/main/java/com/arangodb/model/HashIndexOptions.java
@@ -33,6 +33,7 @@ public class HashIndexOptions extends IndexOptions<HashIndexOptions> {
     private Boolean unique;
     private Boolean sparse;
     private Boolean deduplicate;
+    private Boolean estimates;
 
     public HashIndexOptions() {
         super();
@@ -91,11 +92,28 @@ public Boolean getDeduplicate() {
     }
 
     /**
-     * @param deduplicate if false, the deduplication of array values is turned off.
+     * @param deduplicate
+     *         if false, the deduplication of array values is turned off.
      * @return options
      */
     public HashIndexOptions deduplicate(final Boolean deduplicate) {
         this.deduplicate = deduplicate;
         return this;
     }
+
+    /**
+     * @param estimates
+     *         This attribute controls whether index selectivity estimates are maintained for the index. Default: {@code
+     *         true}
+     * @since ArangoDB 3.8
+     */
+    public HashIndexOptions estimates(final Boolean estimates) {
+        this.estimates = estimates;
+        return this;
+    }
+
+    public Boolean getEstimates() {
+        return estimates;
+    }
+
 }
diff --git a/src/main/java/com/arangodb/model/PersistentIndexOptions.java b/src/main/java/com/arangodb/model/PersistentIndexOptions.java
index 75ab9fa9c..25a50a886 100644
--- a/src/main/java/com/arangodb/model/PersistentIndexOptions.java
+++ b/src/main/java/com/arangodb/model/PersistentIndexOptions.java
@@ -33,6 +33,7 @@ public class PersistentIndexOptions extends IndexOptions<PersistentIndexOptions>
     protected final IndexType type = IndexType.persistent;
     private Boolean unique;
     private Boolean sparse;
+    private Boolean estimates;
 
     public PersistentIndexOptions() {
         super();
@@ -78,7 +79,8 @@ public Boolean getSparse() {
     }
 
     /**
-     * @param sparse if true, then create a sparse index
+     * @param sparse
+     *         if true, then create a sparse index
      * @return options
      */
     public PersistentIndexOptions sparse(final Boolean sparse) {
@@ -86,4 +88,19 @@ public PersistentIndexOptions sparse(final Boolean sparse) {
         return this;
     }
 
+    /**
+     * @param estimates
+     *         This attribute controls whether index selectivity estimates are maintained for the index. Default: {@code
+     *         true}
+     * @since ArangoDB 3.8
+     */
+    public PersistentIndexOptions estimates(final Boolean estimates) {
+        this.estimates = estimates;
+        return this;
+    }
+
+    public Boolean getEstimates() {
+        return estimates;
+    }
+
 }
diff --git a/src/main/java/com/arangodb/model/SkiplistIndexOptions.java b/src/main/java/com/arangodb/model/SkiplistIndexOptions.java
index f99676d2f..30d000f59 100644
--- a/src/main/java/com/arangodb/model/SkiplistIndexOptions.java
+++ b/src/main/java/com/arangodb/model/SkiplistIndexOptions.java
@@ -33,6 +33,7 @@ public class SkiplistIndexOptions extends IndexOptions<SkiplistIndexOptions> {
     private Boolean unique;
     private Boolean sparse;
     private Boolean deduplicate;
+    private Boolean estimates;
 
     public SkiplistIndexOptions() {
         super();
@@ -91,11 +92,28 @@ public Boolean getDeduplicate() {
     }
 
     /**
-     * @param deduplicate if false, the deduplication of array values is turned off.
+     * @param deduplicate
+     *         if false, the deduplication of array values is turned off.
      * @return options
      */
     public SkiplistIndexOptions deduplicate(final Boolean deduplicate) {
         this.deduplicate = deduplicate;
         return this;
     }
+
+    /**
+     * @param estimates
+     *         This attribute controls whether index selectivity estimates are maintained for the index. Default: {@code
+     *         true}
+     * @since ArangoDB 3.8
+     */
+    public SkiplistIndexOptions estimates(final Boolean estimates) {
+        this.estimates = estimates;
+        return this;
+    }
+
+    public Boolean getEstimates() {
+        return estimates;
+    }
+
 }
diff --git a/src/test/java/com/arangodb/ArangoCollectionTest.java b/src/test/java/com/arangodb/ArangoCollectionTest.java
index b4f4cf7d8..275d8fe90 100644
--- a/src/test/java/com/arangodb/ArangoCollectionTest.java
+++ b/src/test/java/com/arangodb/ArangoCollectionTest.java
@@ -20,9 +20,38 @@
 
 package com.arangodb;
 
-import com.arangodb.entity.*;
-import com.arangodb.model.*;
+import com.arangodb.entity.BaseDocument;
+import com.arangodb.entity.BaseEdgeDocument;
+import com.arangodb.entity.CollectionEntity;
+import com.arangodb.entity.CollectionPropertiesEntity;
+import com.arangodb.entity.CollectionRevisionEntity;
+import com.arangodb.entity.DocumentCreateEntity;
+import com.arangodb.entity.DocumentDeleteEntity;
+import com.arangodb.entity.DocumentEntity;
+import com.arangodb.entity.DocumentImportEntity;
+import com.arangodb.entity.DocumentUpdateEntity;
+import com.arangodb.entity.IndexEntity;
+import com.arangodb.entity.IndexType;
+import com.arangodb.entity.MultiDocumentEntity;
+import com.arangodb.entity.Permissions;
+import com.arangodb.entity.ShardEntity;
+import com.arangodb.model.CollectionCreateOptions;
+import com.arangodb.model.CollectionPropertiesOptions;
+import com.arangodb.model.DocumentCreateOptions;
+import com.arangodb.model.DocumentDeleteOptions;
+import com.arangodb.model.DocumentExistsOptions;
+import com.arangodb.model.DocumentImportOptions;
 import com.arangodb.model.DocumentImportOptions.OnDuplicate;
+import com.arangodb.model.DocumentReadOptions;
+import com.arangodb.model.DocumentReplaceOptions;
+import com.arangodb.model.DocumentUpdateOptions;
+import com.arangodb.model.FulltextIndexOptions;
+import com.arangodb.model.GeoIndexOptions;
+import com.arangodb.model.HashIndexOptions;
+import com.arangodb.model.OverwriteMode;
+import com.arangodb.model.PersistentIndexOptions;
+import com.arangodb.model.SkiplistIndexOptions;
+import com.arangodb.model.TtlIndexOptions;
 import com.arangodb.util.MapBuilder;
 import com.arangodb.velocypack.VPackSlice;
 import com.fasterxml.jackson.core.JsonProcessingException;
@@ -33,7 +62,14 @@
 import org.junit.runner.RunWith;
 import org.junit.runners.Parameterized;
 
-import java.util.*;
+import java.util.ArrayList;
+import java.util.Arrays;
+import java.util.Collection;
+import java.util.Collections;
+import java.util.HashMap;
+import java.util.List;
+import java.util.Map;
+import java.util.UUID;
 import java.util.stream.Collectors;
 import java.util.stream.IntStream;
 
@@ -1392,6 +1428,46 @@ public void createPersistentIndexWithOptions() {
         assertThat(indexResult.getName(), is(name));
     }
 
+    @Test
+    public void indexEstimates() {
+        assumeTrue(isAtLeastVersion(3, 8));
+        assumeTrue(isSingleServer());
+
+        String name = "persistentIndex-" + rnd();
+        final PersistentIndexOptions options = new PersistentIndexOptions();
+        options.name(name);
+        options.estimates(true);
+
+        String f1 = "field-" + rnd();
+        String f2 = "field-" + rnd();
+
+        final Collection<String> fields = Arrays.asList(f1, f2);
+        final IndexEntity indexResult = collection.ensurePersistentIndex(fields, options);
+        assertThat(indexResult, is(notNullValue()));
+        assertThat(indexResult.getEstimates(), is(true));
+        assertThat(indexResult.getSelectivityEstimate(), is(notNullValue()));
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void indexEstimatesFalse() {
+        assumeTrue(isAtLeastVersion(3, 8));
+        assumeTrue(isSingleServer());
+
+        String name = "persistentIndex-" + rnd();
+        final PersistentIndexOptions options = new PersistentIndexOptions();
+        options.name(name);
+        options.estimates(false);
+
+        String f1 = "field-" + rnd();
+        String f2 = "field-" + rnd();
+
+        final Collection<String> fields = Arrays.asList(f1, f2);
+        final IndexEntity indexResult = collection.ensurePersistentIndex(fields, options);
+        assertThat(indexResult, is(notNullValue()));
+        assertThat(indexResult.getEstimates(), is(false));
+        assertThat(indexResult.getSelectivityEstimate(), is(nullValue()));
+    }
+
     @Test
     public void createFulltextIndex() {
         String f1 = "field-" + rnd();