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

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"}

Answer 2

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

Answer 3

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

Answer 4

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"

Answer 5

<dependency>
    <groupId>org.elasticsearch</groupId>
    <artifactId>elasticsearch</artifactId>
    <version>2.4.0</version>
</dependency>

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 + "]");
}