List all indexes on ElasticSearch server

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I would like to list all indexes present on an ElasticSearch server  I tried this   curl -XGET localhost 9200    but it just gives me this        ok    true     status    200     name     El Aguila      version           number     0 19 3        snapshot build    false         tagline     You Know  for Search      I want a list of all indexes

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You can query localhost 9200  status and that will give you a list of indices and information about each  The response will look something like this        ok    true      shards                indices           my index                  another index

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The simplest way to get a list of only indexes is to use the answer above  with the  h index  parameter     curl -XGET  localhost 9200  cat indices h index

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If you re working in scala  a way to do this and use Future s is to create a RequestExecutor  then use the IndicesStatsRequestBuilder and the administrative client to submit your request    import org elasticsearch action   ActionRequestBuilder  ActionListener  ActionResponse   import scala concurrent   Future  Promise  blocking        Convenice wrapper for creating RequestExecutors    object RequestExecutor       def apply T  lt   ActionResponse     RequestExecutor T              new RequestExecutor T               Wrapper to convert an ActionResponse into a scala Future         see http   chris-zen github io software 2015 05 10 elasticsearch-with-scala-and-akka html     class RequestExecutor T  lt   ActionResponse  extends ActionListener T        private val promise   Promise T         def onResponse response  T            promise success response             def onFailure e  Throwable            promise failure e             def execute RB  lt   ActionRequestBuilder    T         request  RB   Future T              blocking               request execute this              promise future                     The executor is lifted from this blog post which is definitely a good read if you re trying to query ES programmatically and not through curl  One you have this you can create a list of all indexes pretty easily like so    def totalCountsByIndexName    Future List  String  Long            import scala collection JavaConverters       val statsRequestBuider   new IndicesStatsRequestBuilder client admin   indices        val futureStatResponse   RequestExecutor IndicesStatsResponse  execute statsRequestBuider      futureStatResponse map   indicesStatsResponse   gt          indicesStatsResponse getIndices   asScala map               case  k  indexStats    gt                    val indexName   indexStats getIndex                   val totalCount   indexStats getTotal   getDocs   getCount                        indexName  totalCount                              toList           client is an instance of Client which can be a node or a transport client  whichever suits your needs  You ll also need to have an implicit ExecutionContext in scope for this request  If you try to compile this code without it then you ll get a warning from the scala compiler on how to get that if you don t have one imported already    I needed the document count  but if you really only need the names of the indices you can pull them from the keys of the map instead of from the IndexStats   indicesStatsResponse getIndices   keySet     This question shows up when you re searching for how to do this even if you re trying to do this programmatically  so I hope this helps anyone looking to do this in scala java  Otherwise  curl users can just do as the top answer says and use  curl http   localhost 9200  aliases

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Try   curl  localhost 9200  cat indices v    It will give you following self explanatory output in a tabular manner  health index    pri rep docs count docs deleted store size pri store size yellow customer   5   1          0            0       495b           495b

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To get all the details in Kibana   GET   cat indices     To get names only in Kibana  GET   cat indices h index  Without using Kibana  You can send a get request in postman  or type this in Brower  so you will get  a list of indices names http   localhost 9200  cat indices h index

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stats indices gives the result with indices     curl -XGET  localhost 9200  stats indices pretty true        shards           total    10       successful    5       failed    0          all           primaries              total                indices           visitors             primaries                total

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For Elasticsearch 6 X  I found the following the most helpful  Each provide different data in the response     more verbose curl -sS  localhost 9200  stats    jq -C   indices    less    less verbose  summary curl -sS  localhost 9200  cluster health level indices    jq -C   indices    less

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send requtest and get response with kibana kibana is can autocomplete elastic query builder and  have more tools look at the kibana  GET   cat indices  kibana dev tools http   localhost 5601 app kibana  dev tools console

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curl -XGET  http   localhost 9200  cluster health level indices   This will output like below       cluster name    XXXXXX name      status    green      timed out   false     number of nodes   3     number of data nodes   3     active primary shards   199     active shards   398     relocating shards   0     initializing shards   0     unassigned shards   0     delayed unassigned shards   0     number of pending tasks   0     number of in flight fetch   0     task max waiting in queue millis   0     active shards percent as number   100     indices          logstash-2017 06 19            status    green          number of shards   3         number of replicas   1         active primary shards   3         active shards   6         relocating shards   0         initializing shards   0         unassigned shards   0             logstash-2017 06 18            status    green          number of shards   3         number of replicas   1         active primary shards   3         active shards   6         relocating shards   0         initializing shards   0         unassigned shards   0

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You can also get specific index using   curl -X GET  localhost 9200  lt INDEX NAME gt   e g    curl -X GET  localhost 9200 twitter  You may get output like       twitter           aliases                     mappings                     settings           index              creation date    1540797250479            number of shards    3            number of replicas    2            uuid    CHYecky8Q-ijsoJbpXP95w            version                  created    6040299                     provided name    twitter                        For more info  https   www elastic co guide en elasticsearch reference current indices-get-index html

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People here have answered how to do it in curl and sense  some people might need to do this in java    Here it goes  client admin   indices   stats new IndicesStatsRequest    actionGet   getIndices   keySet

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here s another way just to see the indices in the db   curl -sG somehost-dev example com 9200  status --user  credentials password    sed  s    n g    grep index   grep -v  size in    uniq      index   tmpdb       index   devapp

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I had Kibana and ES installed on a machine  But I did not know the details at what path  or port  was the ES node on that machine   So how can you do it from Kibana  version 5 6     Go to Dev Tools See Console section  and run the following query    GET  cat indices  I was interested in finding the the size of a particular ES index

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I would also recommend doing   cat indices which gives a nice human readable list of your indexes

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I ll give you the query which you can run on kibana   GET   cat indices v   and the CURL version will be   CURL -XGET http   localhost 9200  cat indices v

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For a concise list of all indices in your cluster  call   curl http   localhost 9200  aliases   this will give you a list of indices and their aliases   If you want it pretty-printed  add pretty true   curl http   localhost 9200  aliases pretty true   The result will look something like this  if your indices are called old deuteronomy and mungojerrie        old deuteronomy           aliases                mungojerrie           aliases             rumpleteazer                that horrible cat

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I use this to get all indices     curl --silent  http   127 0 0 1 9200  cat indices    cut -d   -f3   With this list you can work on     Example    curl -s  http   localhost 9200  cat indices    head -5 green open qa-abcdefq 1458925279526           1 6       0     0   1008b    144b green open qa-test learnq 1460483735129    1 6       0     0   1008b    144b green open qa-testimportd 1458925361399       1 6       0     0   1008b    144b green open qa-test123p reports                1 6 3868280 25605   5 9gb 870 5mb green open qa-dan050216p 1462220967543        1 6       0     0   1008b    144b   To get the 3rd column above  names of the indices      curl -s  http   localhost 9200  cat indices    head -5   cut -d   -f3 qa-abcdefq 1458925279526 qa-test learnq 1460483735129 qa-testimportd 1458925361399 qa-test123p reports qa-dan050216p 1462220967543   NOTE  You can also use awk   print  3   instead of cut -d   -f3   Column Headers  You can also suffix the query with a  v to add a column header  Doing so will break the cut    method so I d recommend using the awk   selection at this point     curl -s  http   localhost 9200  cat indices v    head -5 health status index                              pri rep docs count docs deleted store size pri store size green  open   qa-abcdefq 1458925279526             1   6          0            0      1008b           144b green  open   qa-test learnq 1460483735129      1   6          0            0      1008b           144b green  open   qa-testimportd 1458925361399         1   6          0            0      1008b           144b green  open   qa-test123p reports                  1   6    3868280        25605      5 9gb        870 5mb

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If you have curl installed on your system  then try this simple command    curl -XGET xx xx xx xx 9200  cat indices v   The above-mentioned command gives you result in this format    result to fetch all indices

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Accessing the Secured Elastic Search though Curl  Update 2020   If the Elastic Search is secured  You can use this command to list indices  curl http   username password localhost 9200  aliases pretty true

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One of the best way to list indices   to display its status together with list   is by simply executing below query   Note  preferably use Sense to get the proper output   curl -XGET  http   localhost 9200  cat shards    The sample output is as below  The main advantage is  it basically shows index name and the shards it saved into  index size and shards ip etc  index1     0 p STARTED     173650  457 1mb 192 168 0 1 ip-192 168 0 1  index1     0 r UNASSIGNED                                                  index2     1 p STARTED     173435  456 6mb 192 168 0 1 ip-192 168 0 1  index2     1 r UNASSIGNED

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The  stats command provides ways to customize the results by specifying the metrics wished  To get the indices the query is as follows   GET   stats indices   The general format of the  stats query is     stats   stats  metric    stats  metric   indexMetric    index   stats   index   stats  metric    Where the metrics are   indices  docs  store  indexing  search  get  merge   refresh  flush  warmer  filter cache  id cache   percolate  segments  fielddata  completion   As an exercice to myself  I ve written a small elasticsearch plugin providing the functionality to list elasticsearch indices without any other information  You can find it at the following url   http   blog iterativ ch 2014 04 11 listindices-writing-your-first-elasticsearch-java-plugin   https   github com iterativ elasticsearch-listindices

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lt dependency gt       lt groupId gt org elasticsearch lt  groupId gt       lt artifactId gt elasticsearch lt  artifactId gt       lt version gt 2 4 0 lt  version gt   lt  dependency gt    Java API  Settings settings   Settings settingsBuilder   put  cluster name   Consts ES CLUSTER NAME  build    TransportClient client   TransportClient builder   settings settings  build   addTransportAddress new InetSocketTransportAddress InetAddress getByName  52 43 207 11    9300    IndicesAdminClient indicesAdminClient   client admin   indices    GetIndexResponse getIndexResponse   indicesAdminClient getIndex new GetIndexRequest    get    for  String index   getIndexResponse getIndices          logger info   index     index

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I use the  stats indexes endpoint to get a json blob of data and then filter with jq   curl  localhost 9200  stats indexes    jq   indices   keys          admin   blazeds   cgi-bin   contacts v1   flex2gateway   formmail   formmail pl   gw        If you don t want quotes  add a -r flag to jq   Yes  the endpoint is indexes and the data key is indices  so they couldn t make up their minds either     I needed this to clean up these garbage indices created by an internal security scan  nessus    PS   I highly recommend getting familiar with jq if you re going to interact with ES from the command line

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