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

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