# Cluster meta-information about closed Index
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cluster-meta-information-about-closed-index/177924
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [April 23, 2019, 2:16am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cluster-meta-information-about-closed-index/177924 "2019-04-23T02:16:06Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@Todd](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Todd)
#### Post date: [April 23, 2019, 2:16am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cluster-meta-information-about-closed-index/177924/1 "2019-04-23T02:16:07Z")
Hi,
If the indexs are closed, will the amount of meta-information data of their shards decrease in the global cluster meta data? What is included in the cluster meta information? And are there any articles about it?
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### Author:  [@DavidTurner](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/DavidTurner)
#### Post date: [April 23, 2019, 7:07am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cluster-meta-information-about-closed-index/177924/2 "2019-04-23T07:07:48Z")
You can see the full contents of the global cluster metadata, a.k.a the cluster state, with the [get cluster state API](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/cluster-state.html). It includes things like settings and mappings for each index. Closing an index does not remove any information from the cluster state.
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### Author:  [@Todd](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Todd)
#### Post date: [April 23, 2019, 7:44am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cluster-meta-information-about-closed-index/177924/3 "2019-04-23T07:44:28Z")
ok,thanks a lot! 😀
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [May 21, 2019, 7:44am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cluster-meta-information-about-closed-index/177924/4 "2019-05-21T07:44:30Z")
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