Get index template API

This documentation is about legacy index templates, which are deprecated and will be replaced by the composable templates introduced in Elasticsearch 7.8. For information about composable templates, Index templates .

Retrieves information about one or more index templates.

  1. GET /_template/template_1

Request

GET /_template/<index-template>

Path parameters

<index-template>

(Required, string) Comma-separated list of index template names used to limit the request. Wildcard (*) expressions are supported.

To return all index templates, omit this parameter or use a value of _all or *.

Query parameters

flat_settings

(Optional, boolean) If true, returns settings in flat format. Defaults to false.

local

(Optional, boolean) If true, the request retrieves information from the local node only. Defaults to false, which means information is retrieved from the master node.

master_timeout

(Optional, time units) Specifies the period of time to wait for a connection to the master node. If no response is received before the timeout expires, the request fails and returns an error. Defaults to 30s.

Examples

Get multiple index templates

  1. GET /_template/template_1,template_2

Get index templates using a wildcard expression

  1. GET /_template/temp*

Get all index templates

  1. GET /_template