---
title: stack es indices resolve-cluster cli command
description: Resolve the cluster. Behaviour flags: --dry-run — validate all inputs and exit without performing any action 
url: https://www.elastic.co/elastic/docs-builder/docs/4083/reference/elastic-cli/cli/stack/es/indices/resolve-cluster
applies_to:
  - Elastic Cloud Serverless: Preview
  - Elastic Stack: Preview
---

# stack es indices resolve-cluster cli command
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</cli-modifiers>

```bash
elastic stack es indices resolve-cluster [options]
```

Resolve the cluster.
**Behaviour flags:**
`--dry-run` — validate all inputs and exit without performing any action

## Options

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  <definition term="--allow-no-indices">
    A setting that does two separate checks on the index expression.
    If `false`, the request returns an error (1) if any wildcard expression
    (including `_all` and `*`) resolves to zero matching indices or (2) if the
    complete set of resolved indices, aliases or data streams is empty after all
    expressions are evaluated. If `true`, index expressions that resolve to no
    indices are allowed and the request returns an empty result.
    NOTE: This option is only supported when specifying an index expression. You will get an error if you specify index
    options to the `_resolve/cluster` API endpoint that takes no index expression.
  </definition>
  <definition term="--expand-wildcards enum">
    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.
    Supports comma-separated values, such as `open,hidden`.
    NOTE: This option is only supported when specifying an index expression. You will get an error if you specify index
    options to the `_resolve/cluster` API endpoint that takes no index expression.
    **Values:** all, open, closed, hidden, none
    **Repeatable:** pass `--expand-wildcards` multiple times to supply more than one value
  </definition>
  <definition term="--ignore-throttled">
    If true, concrete, expanded, or aliased indices are ignored when frozen.
    NOTE: This option is only supported when specifying an index expression. You will get an error if you specify index
    options to the `_resolve/cluster` API endpoint that takes no index expression.
  </definition>
  <definition term="--ignore-unavailable">
    If `false`, the request returns an error if it targets a concrete (non-wildcarded)
    index, alias, or data stream that is missing, closed, or otherwise unavailable.
    If `true`, unavailable concrete targets are silently ignored.
    NOTE: This option is only supported when specifying an index expression. You will get an error if you specify index
    options to the `_resolve/cluster` API endpoint that takes no index expression.
  </definition>
  <definition term="--timeout string">
    The maximum time to wait for remote clusters to respond.
    If a remote cluster does not respond within this timeout period, the API response
    will show the cluster as not connected and include an error message that the
    request timed out. The default timeout is unset and the query can take
    as long as the networking layer is configured to wait for remote clusters that are
    not responding (typically 30 seconds).
  </definition>
  <definition term="--name string">
    A comma-separated list of names or index patterns for the indices, aliases, and data streams to resolve.
    Resources on remote clusters can be specified using the `<cluster>`:`<name>` syntax.
    Index and cluster exclusions (e.g., `-cluster1:*`) are also supported.
    If no index expression is specified, information about all remote clusters configured on the local cluster
    is returned without doing any index matching
    **Repeatable:** pass `--name` multiple times to supply more than one value
  </definition>
  <definition term="--error-trace">
    When set to `true` Elasticsearch will include the full stack trace of errors
    when they occur.
  </definition>
  <definition term="--filter-path string">
    Comma-separated list of filters in dot notation which reduce the response
    returned by Elasticsearch.
    **Repeatable:** pass `--filter-path` multiple times to supply more than one value
  </definition>
  <definition term="--human">
    When set to `true` will return statistics in a format suitable for humans.
    For example `"exists_time": "1h"` for humans and
    `"exists_time_in_millis": 3600000` for computers. When disabled the human
    readable values will be omitted. This makes sense for responses being consumed
    only by machines.
  </definition>
  <definition term="--pretty">
    If set to `true` the returned JSON will be "pretty-formatted". Only use
    this option for debugging only.
  </definition>
  <definition term="--input-file string">
    path to a JSON file to use as command input
  </definition>
  <definition term="--dry-run">
    validate all inputs and exit without performing any action (preview changes without applying them)
  </definition>
</definitions>


## Global Options

<definitions>
  <definition term="--json">
    output as JSON
  </definition>
</definitions>