# Check if an index is using a specific template
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/check-if-an-index-is-using-a-specific-template/145514
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [August 22, 2018, 8:10am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/check-if-an-index-is-using-a-specific-template/145514 "2018-08-22T08:10:44Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@pkaramol](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/pkaramol)
#### Post date: [August 22, 2018, 8:10am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/check-if-an-index-is-using-a-specific-template/145514/1 "2018-08-22T08:10:44Z")
Is there a way to check if the mapping of an index comes from a specific template?
When performing
```
GET index_name
```
I am getting a `mappings` json field but how can I say if this was auto generated or came from a template I instructed it to when sending it to elasticsearch as in ...:
```
elasticsearch {
hosts => ["elasticsearch:9200"]
index => "index_name"
template => "/usr/share/logstash/files/mapping_users_index_template.json"
template_name => "mapping_users"
manage_template => true
template_overwrite => true
document_type => _doc
}
```
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### Author:  [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)
#### Post date: [August 22, 2018, 8:13am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/check-if-an-index-is-using-a-specific-template/145514/2 "2018-08-22T08:13:36Z")
There's no way to do that unfortunately. Feel free to raise a feature request for something though 🙂
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### Author:  [@pkaramol](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/pkaramol)
#### Post date: [August 22, 2018, 8:16am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/check-if-an-index-is-using-a-specific-template/145514/3 "2018-08-22T08:16:36Z")
Thanks for the reply; that would indeed be sth useful I think, to be able to know the origin of your mapping;
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### Author:  [@pkaramol](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/pkaramol)
#### Post date: [August 22, 2018, 8:22am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/check-if-an-index-is-using-a-specific-template/145514/4 "2018-08-22T08:22:29Z")
[FR](https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/issues/33053) opened
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [September 19, 2018, 8:22am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/check-if-an-index-is-using-a-specific-template/145514/5 "2018-09-19T08:22:34Z")
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