List dangling indices API
Lists dangling indices.
Request
GET /_dangling
Description
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.
Examples
The API returns the following response:
{
"dangling_indices": [
{
"index_name": "my-index-000001",
"index_uuid": "zmM4e0JtBkeUjiHD-MihPQ",
"creation_date_millis": 1589414451372,
"node_ids": [
"pL47UN3dAb2d5RCWP6lQ3e"
]
}
]
}