The API accepts 3 different authentication methods:
Elasticsearch APIs support key-based authentication. You must create an API key and use the encoded value in the request header. For example:
curl -X GET "${ES_URL}/_cat/indices?v=true" \
-H "Authorization: ApiKey ${API_KEY}"
To get API keys, use the /_security/api_key APIs.
Basic auth tokens are constructed with the Basic keyword, followed by a space, followed by a base64-encoded string of your username:password
(separated by a : colon).
Example: send a Authorization: Basic aGVsbG86aGVsbG8=
HTTP header with your requests to authenticate with the API.
Elasticsearch APIs support the use of bearer tokens in the Authorization HTTP header to authenticate with the API.
For examples, refer to Token-based authentication services
NOTE: This feature is designed for indirect use by Elasticsearch Service, Elastic Cloud Enterprise, and Elastic Cloud on Kubernetes. Direct use is not supported.
This API gets the current autoscaling capacity based on the configured autoscaling policy. It will return information to size the cluster appropriately to the current workload.
The required_capacity is calculated as the maximum of the required_capacity result of all individual deciders that are enabled for the policy.
The operator should verify that the current_nodes match the operator’s knowledge of the cluster to avoid making autoscaling decisions based on stale or incomplete information.
The response contains decider-specific information you can use to diagnose how and why autoscaling determined a certain capacity was required. This information is provided for diagnosis only. Do not use this information to make autoscaling decisions.
Period to wait for a connection to the master node. If no response is received before the timeout expires, the request fails and returns an error.
curl \
--request GET 'http://api.example.com/_autoscaling/capacity' \
--header "Authorization: $API_KEY"{
policies: {}
}A list of analytics collections to limit the returned information
curl \
--request GET 'http://api.example.com/_application/analytics/{name}' \
--header "Authorization: $API_KEY"{
"my_analytics_collection": {
"event_data_stream": {
"name": "behavioral_analytics-events-my_analytics_collection"
}
},
"my_analytics_collection2": {
"event_data_stream": {
"name": "behavioral_analytics-events-my_analytics_collection2"
}
}
}Get the cluster's index aliases, including filter and routing information. This API does not return data stream aliases.
IMPORTANT: CAT APIs are only intended for human consumption using the command line or the Kibana console. They are not intended for use by applications. For application consumption, use the aliases API.
A comma-separated list of aliases to retrieve. Supports wildcards (*). To retrieve all aliases, omit this parameter or use * or _all.
List of columns to appear in the response. Supports simple wildcards.
List of columns that determine how the table should be sorted.
Sorting defaults to ascending and can be changed by setting :asc
or :desc as a suffix to the column name.
The type of index that wildcard patterns can match.
If the request can target data streams, this argument determines whether wildcard expressions match hidden data streams.
It supports comma-separated values, such as open,hidden.
If true, the request computes the list of selected nodes from the
local cluster state. If false the list of selected nodes are computed
from the cluster state of the master node. In both cases the coordinating
node will send requests for further information to each selected node.
The period to wait for a connection to the master node.
If the master node is not available before the timeout expires, the request fails and returns an error.
To indicated that the request should never timeout, you can set it to -1.
curl \
--request GET 'http://api.example.com/_cat/aliases/{name}' \
--header "Authorization: $API_KEY"[
{
"alias": "alias1",
"index": "test1",
"filter": "-",
"routing.index": "-",
"routing.search": "-",
"is_write_index": "true"
},
{
"alias": "alias1",
"index": "test1",
"filter": "*",
"routing.index": "-",
"routing.search": "-",
"is_write_index": "true"
},
{
"alias": "alias3",
"index": "test1",
"filter": "-",
"routing.index": "1",
"routing.search": "1",
"is_write_index": "true"
},
{
"alias": "alias4",
"index": "test1",
"filter": "-",
"routing.index": "2",
"routing.search": "1,2",
"is_write_index": "true"
}
]Get information about component templates in a cluster. Component templates are building blocks for constructing index templates that specify index mappings, settings, and aliases.
IMPORTANT: CAT APIs are only intended for human consumption using the command line or Kibana console. They are not intended for use by applications. For application consumption, use the get component template API.
List of columns to appear in the response. Supports simple wildcards.
List of columns that determine how the table should be sorted.
Sorting defaults to ascending and can be changed by setting :asc
or :desc as a suffix to the column name.
If true, the request computes the list of selected nodes from the
local cluster state. If false the list of selected nodes are computed
from the cluster state of the master node. In both cases the coordinating
node will send requests for further information to each selected node.
The period to wait for a connection to the master node.
curl \
--request GET 'http://api.example.com/_cat/component_templates' \
--header "Authorization: $API_KEY"[
{
"name": "my-template-1",
"version": "null",
"alias_count": "0",
"mapping_count": "0",
"settings_count": "1",
"metadata_count": "0",
"included_in": "[my-index-template]"
},
{
"name": "my-template-2",
"version": null,
"alias_count": "0",
"mapping_count": "3",
"settings_count": "0",
"metadata_count": "0",
"included_in": "[my-index-template]"
}
]Get information about component templates in a cluster. Component templates are building blocks for constructing index templates that specify index mappings, settings, and aliases.
IMPORTANT: CAT APIs are only intended for human consumption using the command line or Kibana console. They are not intended for use by applications. For application consumption, use the get component template API.
The name of the component template. It accepts wildcard expressions. If it is omitted, all component templates are returned.
List of columns to appear in the response. Supports simple wildcards.
List of columns that determine how the table should be sorted.
Sorting defaults to ascending and can be changed by setting :asc
or :desc as a suffix to the column name.
If true, the request computes the list of selected nodes from the
local cluster state. If false the list of selected nodes are computed
from the cluster state of the master node. In both cases the coordinating
node will send requests for further information to each selected node.
The period to wait for a connection to the master node.
curl \
--request GET 'http://api.example.com/_cat/component_templates/{name}' \
--header "Authorization: $API_KEY"[
{
"name": "my-template-1",
"version": "null",
"alias_count": "0",
"mapping_count": "0",
"settings_count": "1",
"metadata_count": "0",
"included_in": "[my-index-template]"
},
{
"name": "my-template-2",
"version": null,
"alias_count": "0",
"mapping_count": "3",
"settings_count": "0",
"metadata_count": "0",
"included_in": "[my-index-template]"
}
]Get quick access to a document count for a data stream, an index, or an entire cluster. The document count only includes live documents, not deleted documents which have not yet been removed by the merge process.
IMPORTANT: CAT APIs are only intended for human consumption using the command line or Kibana console. They are not intended for use by applications. For application consumption, use the count API.
curl \
--request GET 'http://api.example.com/_cat/count' \
--header "Authorization: $API_KEY"[
{
"epoch": "1475868259",
"timestamp": "15:24:20",
"count": "120"
}
][
{
"epoch": "1475868259",
"timestamp": "15:24:20",
"count": "121"
}
]Get the amount of heap memory currently used by the field data cache on every data node in the cluster.
IMPORTANT: cat APIs are only intended for human consumption using the command line or Kibana console. They are not intended for use by applications. For application consumption, use the nodes stats API.
Comma-separated list of fields used to limit returned information. To retrieve all fields, omit this parameter.
The unit used to display byte values.
Values are b, kb, mb, gb, tb, or pb.
Comma-separated list of fields used to limit returned information.
List of columns to appear in the response. Supports simple wildcards.
List of columns that determine how the table should be sorted.
Sorting defaults to ascending and can be changed by setting :asc
or :desc as a suffix to the column name.
curl \
--request GET 'http://api.example.com/_cat/fielddata/{fields}' \
--header "Authorization: $API_KEY"[
{
"id": "Nqk-6inXQq-OxUfOUI8jNQ",
"host": "127.0.0.1",
"ip": "127.0.0.1",
"node": "Nqk-6in",
"field": "body",
"size": "544b"
}
][
{
"id": "Nqk-6inXQq-OxUfOUI8jNQ",
"host": "1127.0.0.1",
"ip": "127.0.0.1",
"node": "Nqk-6in",
"field": "body",
"size": "544b"
},
{
"id": "Nqk-6inXQq-OxUfOUI8jNQ",
"host": "127.0.0.1",
"ip": "127.0.0.1",
"node": "Nqk-6in",
"field": "soul",
"size": "480b"
}
]Get high-level information about indices in a cluster, including backing indices for data streams.
Use this request to get the following information for each index in a cluster:
These metrics are retrieved directly from Lucene, which Elasticsearch uses internally to power indexing and search. As a result, all document counts include hidden nested documents. To get an accurate count of Elasticsearch documents, use the cat count or count APIs.
CAT APIs are only intended for human consumption using the command line or Kibana console. They are not intended for use by applications. For application consumption, use an index endpoint.
Comma-separated list of data streams, indices, and aliases used to limit the request.
Supports wildcards (*). To target all data streams and indices, omit this parameter or use * or _all.
The unit used to display byte values.
Values are b, kb, mb, gb, tb, or pb.
The type of index that wildcard patterns can match.
The health status used to limit returned indices. By default, the response includes indices of any health status.
Values are green, GREEN, yellow, YELLOW, red, or RED.
If true, the response includes information from segments that are not loaded into memory.
If true, the response only includes information from primary shards.
The unit used to display time values.
Values are nanos, micros, ms, s, m, h, or d.
Period to wait for a connection to the master node.
List of columns to appear in the response. Supports simple wildcards.
List of columns that determine how the table should be sorted.
Sorting defaults to ascending and can be changed by setting :asc
or :desc as a suffix to the column name.
curl \
--request GET 'http://api.example.com/_cat/indices/{index}' \
--header "Authorization: $API_KEY"[
{
"health": "yellow",
"status": "open",
"index": "my-index-000001",
"uuid": "u8FNjxh8Rfy_awN11oDKYQ",
"pri": "1",
"rep": "1",
"docs.count": "1200",
"docs.deleted": "0",
"store.size": "88.1kb",
"pri.store.size": "88.1kb",
"dataset.size": "88.1kb"
},
{
"health": "green",
"status": "open",
"index": "my-index-000002",
"uuid": "nYFWZEO7TUiOjLQXBaYJpA ",
"pri": "1",
"rep": "0",
"docs.count": "0",
"docs.deleted": "0",
"store.size": "260b",
"pri.store.size": "260b",
"dataset.size": "260b"
}
]Get configuration and usage information about datafeeds.
This API returns a maximum of 10,000 datafeeds.
If the Elasticsearch security features are enabled, you must have monitor_ml, monitor, manage_ml, or manage
cluster privileges to use this API.
IMPORTANT: CAT APIs are only intended for human consumption using the Kibana console or command line. They are not intended for use by applications. For application consumption, use the get datafeed statistics API.
A numerical character string that uniquely identifies the datafeed.
Specifies what to do when the request:
_all string or no identifiers and there are no matches.If true, the API returns an empty datafeeds array when there are no matches and the subset of results when
there are partial matches. If false, the API returns a 404 status code when there are no matches or only
partial matches.
Comma-separated list of column names to display.
Comma-separated list of column names or column aliases used to sort the response.
The unit used to display time values.
Values are nanos, micros, ms, s, m, h, or d.
curl \
--request GET 'http://api.example.com/_cat/ml/datafeeds/{datafeed_id}' \
--header "Authorization: $API_KEY"[
{
"id": "datafeed-high_sum_total_sales",
"state": "stopped",
"buckets.count": "743",
"search.count": "7"
},
{
"id": "datafeed-low_request_rate",
"state": "stopped",
"buckets.count": "1457",
"search.count": "3"
},
{
"id": "datafeed-response_code_rates",
"state": "stopped",
"buckets.count": "1460",
"search.count": "18"
},
{
"id": "datafeed-url_scanning",
"state": "stopped",
"buckets.count": "1460",
"search.count": "18"
}
]