List all indexes on ElasticSearch server?

Question

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:

Answer 1

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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