The indices status API allows to get a comprehensive status information of one or more indices.

curl -XGET 'http://localhost:9200/twitter/_status'

In order to see the recovery status of shards, pass recovery flag and set it to true. For snapshot status, pass the snapshot flag and set it to true.

Multi Index

The status API can be applied to more than one index with a single call, or even on _all the indices.

curl -XGET 'http://localhost:9200/kimchy,elasticsearch/_status'

curl -XGET 'http://localhost:9200/_status'