List dangling indices APIedit
Lists dangling indices.
Requestedit
GET /_dangling
Prerequisitesedit
-
If the Elasticsearch security features are enabled, you must have the
managecluster privilege to use this API.
Descriptionedit
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.
Examplesedit
The API returns the following response:
{
"dangling_indices": [
{
"index_name": "my-index-000001",
"index_uuid": "zmM4e0JtBkeUjiHD-MihPQ",
"creation_date_millis": 1589414451372,
"node_ids": [
"pL47UN3dAb2d5RCWP6lQ3e"
]
}
]
}