elasticsearch/docs/reference/indices/get-index.asciidoc

[[indices-get-index]]
== Get Index

The get index API allows to retrieve information about one or more indexes. 

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$ curl -XGET 'http://localhost:9200/twitter/'
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The above example gets the information for an index called `twitter`. Specifying an index,
alias or wildcard expression is required.

The get index API can also be applied to more than one index, or on
all indices by using `_all` or `*` as index.

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=== Filtering index information

The information returned by the get API can be filtered to include only specific features 
by specifying a comma delimited list of features in the URL:

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$ curl -XGET 'http://localhost:9200/twitter/_settings,_mappings'
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The above command will only return the settings and mappings for the index called `twitter`.

The available features are `_settings`, `_mappings` and `_aliases`.