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CAT shards
Introduced 1.0
The CAT shards operation lists the state of all primary and replica shards and how they are distributed.
Path and HTTP methods
GET _cat/shards
URL parameters
All cat shards URL parameters are optional.
In addition to the common URL parameters, you can specify the following parameters:
| Parameter | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| bytes | Byte size | Specify the units for byte size. For example, 7kb or 6gb. For more information, see Supported units. |
| local | Boolean | Whether to return information from the local node only instead of from the cluster manager node. Default is false. |
| cluster_manager_timeout | Time | The amount of time to wait for a connection to the cluster manager node. Default is 30 seconds. |
| time | Time | Specify the units for time. For example, 5d or 7h. For more information, see Supported units. |
Example requests
The following example requests returns information about shards:
GET _cat/shards?v
To see only the information about shards of a specific index, add the index name after your query.
GET _cat/shards/<index>?v
If you want to get information for more than one index, separate the indexes with commas:
GET _cat/shards/index1,index2,index3
Example response
index | shard | prirep | state | docs | store | ip | | node
plugins | 0 | p | STARTED | 0 | 208b | 172.18.0.4 | odfe-node1
plugins | 0 | r | STARTED | 0 | 208b | 172.18.0.3 | odfe-node2