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title: Actions
description: Actions are the tasks which Curator can perform on your indices.  Snapshots, once created, can only be deleted. Alias, Allocation, Close, Cluster Routing,...
url: https://www.elastic.co/elastic/docs-builder/docs/3028/reference/elasticsearch/curator/actions
products:
  - Elasticsearch
  - Elasticsearch Curator
---

# Actions
Actions are the tasks which Curator can perform on your indices.  Snapshots, once created, can only be deleted.
- [Alias](https://www.elastic.co/elastic/docs-builder/docs/3028/reference/elasticsearch/curator/alias)
- [Allocation](https://www.elastic.co/elastic/docs-builder/docs/3028/reference/elasticsearch/curator/allocation)
- [Close](https://www.elastic.co/elastic/docs-builder/docs/3028/reference/elasticsearch/curator/close)
- [Cluster Routing](https://www.elastic.co/elastic/docs-builder/docs/3028/reference/elasticsearch/curator/cluster_routing)
- [Cold2Frozen](https://www.elastic.co/elastic/docs-builder/docs/3028/reference/elasticsearch/curator/cold2frozen)
- [Create Index](https://www.elastic.co/elastic/docs-builder/docs/3028/reference/elasticsearch/curator/create_index)
- [Delete Indices](https://www.elastic.co/elastic/docs-builder/docs/3028/reference/elasticsearch/curator/delete_indices)
- [Delete Snapshots](https://www.elastic.co/elastic/docs-builder/docs/3028/reference/elasticsearch/curator/delete_snapshots)
- [forceMerge](https://www.elastic.co/elastic/docs-builder/docs/3028/reference/elasticsearch/curator/forcemerge)
- [Index Settings](https://www.elastic.co/elastic/docs-builder/docs/3028/reference/elasticsearch/curator/index_settings)
- [Open](https://www.elastic.co/elastic/docs-builder/docs/3028/reference/elasticsearch/curator/open)
- [Reindex](https://www.elastic.co/elastic/docs-builder/docs/3028/reference/elasticsearch/curator/reindex)
- [Replicas](https://www.elastic.co/elastic/docs-builder/docs/3028/reference/elasticsearch/curator/replicas)
- [Restore](https://www.elastic.co/elastic/docs-builder/docs/3028/reference/elasticsearch/curator/restore)
- [Rollover](https://www.elastic.co/elastic/docs-builder/docs/3028/reference/elasticsearch/curator/rollover)
- [Shrink](https://www.elastic.co/elastic/docs-builder/docs/3028/reference/elasticsearch/curator/shrink)
- [Snapshot](https://www.elastic.co/elastic/docs-builder/docs/3028/reference/elasticsearch/curator/snapshot)