[[getting-component-templates]] 
=== Get component template API
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<titleabbrev>Get component template</titleabbrev>
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Retrieves information about one or more component templates.

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[source,console]
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PUT /_component_template/template_1 
{
  "template": {
    "settings": {
      "index.number_of_replicas": 0
    },
    "mappings": {
      "properties": {
        "@timestamp": {
          "type": "date"
        }
      }
    }
  }
}
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// TESTSETUP

[source,console]
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DELETE /_component_template/template_*
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// TEARDOWN

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[source,console]
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GET /_component_template/template_1
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[[get-component-template-api-request]]
==== {api-request-title}

`GET /_component_template/<component-template>`

[[get-component-template-api-prereqs]]
==== {api-prereq-title}

* If the {es} {security-features} are enabled, you must have the
`manage_index_templates` or `manage` <<privileges-list-cluster,cluster
privilege>> to use this API.

[[get-component-template-api-path-params]]
==== {api-path-parms-title}

`<component-template>`::
(Optional, string)
Comma-separated list of component template names used to limit the request.
Wildcard (`*`) expressions are supported.


[[get-component-template-api-query-params]]
==== {api-query-parms-title}

include::{docdir}/rest-api/common-parms.asciidoc[tag=flat-settings]

include::{docdir}/rest-api/common-parms.asciidoc[tag=local]

include::{docdir}/rest-api/common-parms.asciidoc[tag=master-timeout]


[[get-component-template-api-example]]
==== {api-examples-title}


[[get-component-template-api-wildcard-ex]]
===== Get component templates using a wildcard expression

[source,console]
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GET /_component_template/temp*
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[[get-component-template-api-all-ex]]
===== Get all component templates

[source,console]
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GET /_component_template
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