---
title: stack es cli namespace
description: The elastic stack es command group exposes Elasticsearch REST APIs as CLI commands. These commands are also available using the elastic es or elastic...
url: https://docs-v3-preview.elastic.dev/elastic/cli/pull/537/cli/stack/es
---

# stack es cli namespace
```bash
elastic stack es --help
```

The `elastic stack es` command group exposes Elasticsearch REST APIs as CLI commands.
These commands are also available using the `elastic es` or `elastic elasticsearch` shortcuts.

## Commands

<page-card>
  Bulk index or delete documents.
</page-card>

<page-card>
  Create a new document in the index.
</page-card>

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  Delete a document.
</page-card>

<page-card>
  Delete documents.
</page-card>

<page-card>
  Check a document.
</page-card>

<page-card>
  Check for a document source.
</page-card>

<page-card>
  Get a document by its ID.
</page-card>

<page-card>
  Get a document's source.
</page-card>

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  Create or update a document in an index.
</page-card>

<page-card>
  Get multiple documents.
</page-card>

<page-card>
  Reindex documents.
</page-card>

<page-card>
  Update a document.
</page-card>

<page-card>
  Update documents.
</page-card>

<page-card>
  Clear a scrolling search.
</page-card>

<page-card>
  Close a point in time.
</page-card>

<page-card>
  Run multiple searches.
</page-card>

<page-card>
  Run multiple templated searches.
</page-card>

<page-card>
  Open a point in time.
</page-card>

<page-card>
  Render a search template.
</page-card>

<page-card>
  Run a scrolling search.
</page-card>

<page-card>
  Run a search.
</page-card>

<page-card>
  Search a vector tile.
</page-card>

<page-card>
  Get the search shards.
</page-card>

<page-card>
  Run a search with a search template.
</page-card>

<page-card>
  Count search results.
</page-card>

<page-card>
  Explain a document match result.
</page-card>

<page-card>
  Get the field capabilities.
</page-card>

<page-card>
  Get multiple term vectors.
</page-card>

<page-card>
  Evaluate ranked search results.
</page-card>

<page-card>
  Get terms in an index.
</page-card>

<page-card>
  Get term vector information.
</page-card>

<page-card>
  Delete a script or search template.
</page-card>

<page-card>
  Get a script or search template.
</page-card>

<page-card>
  Get script contexts.
</page-card>

<page-card>
  Get script languages.
</page-card>

<page-card>
  Create or update a script or search template.
</page-card>

<page-card>
  Run a script.
</page-card>

<page-card>
  Get the cluster health.
</page-card>

<page-card>
  Get cluster info.
</page-card>

<page-card>
  Ping the cluster.
</page-card>

<page-card>
  Throttle a delete by query operation.
</page-card>

<page-card>
  Throttle a reindex operation.
</page-card>

<page-card>
  Throttle an update by query operation.
</page-card>

<page-card>
  Cancel an ongoing reindex task.
</page-card>

<page-card>
  Get the status and progress of a specific reindex task.
</page-card>

<page-card>
  Get information about all currently running reindex tasks.
</page-card>

<page-card>
  High-level helper commands for common Elasticsearch workflows
</page-card>


## Sub-namespaces

<page-card>
  Elasticsearch async-search API commands
</page-card>

<page-card>
  Elasticsearch cat API commands
</page-card>

<page-card>
  Elasticsearch ccr API commands
</page-card>

<page-card>
  Elasticsearch cluster API commands
</page-card>

<page-card>
  Elasticsearch connector API commands
</page-card>

<page-card>
  Elasticsearch dangling-indices API commands
</page-card>

<page-card>
  Elasticsearch encryption API commands
</page-card>

<page-card>
  Elasticsearch enrich API commands
</page-card>

<page-card>
  Elasticsearch eql API commands
</page-card>

<page-card>
  Elasticsearch esql API commands
</page-card>

<page-card>
  Elasticsearch features API commands
</page-card>

<page-card>
  Elasticsearch fleet API commands
</page-card>

<page-card>
  Elasticsearch graph API commands
</page-card>

<page-card>
  Elasticsearch ilm API commands
</page-card>

<page-card>
  Elasticsearch indices API commands
</page-card>

<page-card>
  Elasticsearch inference API commands
</page-card>

<page-card>
  Elasticsearch ingest API commands
</page-card>

<page-card>
  Elasticsearch license API commands
</page-card>

<page-card>
  Elasticsearch logstash API commands
</page-card>

<page-card>
  Elasticsearch migration API commands
</page-card>

<page-card>
  Elasticsearch ml API commands
</page-card>

<page-card>
  Elasticsearch nodes API commands
</page-card>

<page-card>
  Elasticsearch project API commands
</page-card>

<page-card>
  Elasticsearch query-rules API commands
</page-card>

<page-card>
  Elasticsearch rollup API commands
</page-card>

<page-card>
  Elasticsearch search-application API commands
</page-card>

<page-card>
  Elasticsearch searchable-snapshots API commands
</page-card>

<page-card>
  Elasticsearch security API commands
</page-card>

<page-card>
  Elasticsearch simulate API commands
</page-card>

<page-card>
  Elasticsearch slm API commands
</page-card>

<page-card>
  Elasticsearch snapshot API commands
</page-card>

<page-card>
  Elasticsearch sql API commands
</page-card>

<page-card>
  Elasticsearch ssl API commands
</page-card>

<page-card>
  Elasticsearch streams API commands
</page-card>

<page-card>
  Elasticsearch synonyms API commands
</page-card>

<page-card>
  Elasticsearch tasks API commands
</page-card>

<page-card>
  Elasticsearch text-structure API commands
</page-card>

<page-card>
  Elasticsearch transform API commands
</page-card>

<page-card>
  Elasticsearch watcher API commands
</page-card>

<page-card>
  Elasticsearch xpack API commands
</page-card>