---
title: stack es cat help cli command
description: Get CAT help. 
url: https://www.elastic.co/elastic/docs-builder/docs/4300/reference/elastic-cli/cli/stack/es/cat/help
applies_to:
  - Elastic Cloud Serverless: Preview
  - Elastic Stack: Preview
---

# stack es cat help cli command
<cli-modifiers>
</cli-modifiers>

```bash
elastic stack es cat help
```

Get CAT help.

## Global Options

<definitions>
  <definition term="--output-fields string">
    comma-separated list of fields to include in output (dot-notation supported)
  </definition>
  <definition term="--output-template string">
    Mustache-like template for custom text output (e.g. "{{id}}: {{name}}")
  </definition>
  <definition term="--json">
    output as JSON
  </definition>
</definitions>