Maintenance and snapshotsElasticsearch
GET _cat/indices
List indices with size, docs count, and health indicators.
Command
curl -X GET "http://:9200/_cat/indices?v"
Example usage
Monitor index storage usage and health using the cat API.
curl -X GET "http://<host>:9200/_cat/indices?v"curl -X GET "http://<host>:9200/_cat/indices/<pattern>?v&s=store.size:desc"Related tags
Maintenance and snapshotssearchobservabilityrest-api