diff --git a/CHANGES.md b/CHANGES.md
index 3a734fa9..a1db5435 100644
--- a/CHANGES.md
+++ b/CHANGES.md
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 # 2.8.0 (Unreleased)
-
+- [NEW] Added support for `/_search_disk_size` endpoint which retrieves disk size information for a specific search index.
 - [FIXED] Updated default IBM Cloud Identity and Access Management token URL.
 - [REMOVED] Removed broken source and target parameters that constantly threw `AttributeError` when creating a replication document.
 
diff --git a/src/cloudant/design_document.py b/src/cloudant/design_document.py
index 3e460741..b32c5e33 100644
--- a/src/cloudant/design_document.py
+++ b/src/cloudant/design_document.py
@@ -699,3 +699,15 @@ def search_info(self, search_index):
             '/'.join([self.document_url, '_search_info', search_index]))
         ddoc_search_info.raise_for_status()
         return ddoc_search_info.json()
+
+    def search_disk_size(self, search_index):
+        """
+        Retrieves disk size information about a specified search index within
+        the design document, returns dictionary
+
+        GET databasename/_design/{ddoc}/_search_disk_size/{search_index}
+        """
+        ddoc_search_disk_size = self.r_session.get(
+            '/'.join([self.document_url, '_search_disk_size', search_index]))
+        ddoc_search_disk_size.raise_for_status()
+        return ddoc_search_disk_size.json()
diff --git a/tests/unit/design_document_tests.py b/tests/unit/design_document_tests.py
index 44ede8fa..3fef4d0d 100644
--- a/tests/unit/design_document_tests.py
+++ b/tests/unit/design_document_tests.py
@@ -841,6 +841,46 @@ def test_get_search_info(self):
         self.assertTrue(search_index_metadata['pending_seq'] <= 101, 'The pending_seq should be 101 or fewer.')
         self.assertTrue(search_index_metadata['disk_size'] >0, 'The disk_size should be greater than 0.')
 
+    @unittest.skipUnless(
+        os.environ.get('RUN_CLOUDANT_TESTS') is not None,
+        'Skipping Cloudant _search_disk_size endpoint test'
+    )
+    def test_get_search_disk_size(self):
+        """
+        Test retrieval of search_disk_size endpoint from the DesignDocument.
+        """
+        self.populate_db_with_documents(100)
+        ddoc = DesignDocument(self.db, '_design/ddoc001')
+        ddoc.add_search_index(
+            'search001',
+            'function (doc) {\n  index("default", doc._id); '
+            'if (doc._id) {index("name", doc.name, {"store": true}); }\n}'
+        )
+        ddoc.save()
+
+        ddoc_remote = DesignDocument(self.db, '_design/ddoc001')
+        ddoc_remote.fetch()
+
+        ddoc_remote.search_info('search001')  # trigger index build
+
+        search_disk_size = ddoc_remote.search_disk_size('search001')
+
+        self.assertEqual(
+            sorted(search_disk_size.keys()), ['name', 'search_index'],
+            'The search disk size should contain only keys "name" and "search_index"')
+        self.assertEqual(
+            search_disk_size['name'], '_design/ddoc001/search001',
+            'The search index "name" should be correct.')
+        self.assertEqual(
+            sorted(search_disk_size['search_index'].keys()), ['disk_size'],
+            'The search index should contain only key "disk_size"')
+        self.assertTrue(
+            isinstance(search_disk_size['search_index']['disk_size'], int),
+            'The "disk_size" value should be an integer.')
+        self.assertTrue(
+            search_disk_size['search_index']['disk_size'] > 0,
+            'The "disk_size" should be greater than 0.')
+
     @unittest.skipUnless(
         os.environ.get('RUN_CLOUDANT_TESTS') is not None,
         'Skipping Cloudant _search_info raises HTTPError test'