Get the dangling indices

GET /_dangling

If Elasticsearch encounters index data that is absent from the current cluster state, those indices are considered to be dangling. For example, this can happen if you delete more than cluster.indices.tombstones.size indices while an Elasticsearch node is offline.

Use this API to list dangling indices, which you can then import or delete.

Required authorization

Cluster privileges: manage

Response

application/json

Examples

Request Console 1 / 8 languages

Console Kibana Dev Tools

GET /_dangling

JavaScript Elasticsearch JavaScript Client

const response = await client.danglingIndices.listDanglingIndices();

Python Elasticsearch Python Client

resp = client.dangling_indices.list_dangling_indices()

curl Shell

curl -X GET "$ELASTICSEARCH_URL/_dangling" \
  -H "Authorization: ApiKey $ELASTIC_API_KEY"

Java Elasticsearch Java Client

client.danglingIndices().listDanglingIndices();

C# Elasticsearch .NET Client

var response = await client.DanglingIndices.ListDanglingIndicesAsync();

PHP Elasticsearch PHP Client

$resp = $client->danglingIndices()->listDanglingIndices();

Ruby Elasticsearch Ruby Client

response = client.dangling_indices.list_dangling_indices

Response

{
  "dangling_indices": [
   {
    "index_name": "my-index-000001",
    "index_uuid": "zmM4e0JtBkeUjiHD-MihPQ",
    "creation_date_millis": 1589414451372,
    "node_ids": [
      "pL47UN3dAb2d5RCWP6lQ3e"
    ]
   }
  ]
}