Get index templates

GET /_template/{name}

Get information about one or more index templates.

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

External documentation

Path parameters

  • name string | array[string] Required

    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

  • If true, returns settings in flat format.

  • local boolean

    If true, the request retrieves information from the local node only.

  • Period 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.

Responses

GET /_template/{name}
curl \
 --request GET 'http://api.example.com/_template/{name}' \
 --header "Authorization: $API_KEY"