How to show index creation time with _cat/indices API in Elasticsearch

Question

I am using Elasticsearch 5.2, and cannot see index creation time with http://localhost:9200/_cat/indices?v.

Just wonder what options will show index creation time for each of the indices.

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/42582633/how-to-show-index-creation-time-with-cat-indices-api-in-elasticsearch

Answer 1

Have a look at the cat API : you can get the list of available parameters via http://localhost:9200/_cat/indices?help

To get the creation date of your indexes, you would use creation.date (or creation.date.string). For example, use

http://localhost:9200/_cat/indices?h=h,s,i,id,p,r,dc,dd,ss,creation.date.string

For full header names:

http://localhost:9200/_cat/indices?h=health,status,index,id,pri,rep,docs.count,docs.deleted,store.size,creation.date.string&v=