# Elasticsearch API (cat indices) to get only user created indices

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-api-cat-indices-to-get-only-user-created-indices/210500>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [December 4, 2019, 10:18am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-api-cat-indices-to-get-only-user-created-indices/210500 "2019-12-04T10:18:14Z")\
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**Author:** ![kaushik.vankayala](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/aca169/32.png) [@kaushik.vankayala](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/kaushik.vankayala)\
**Post date:** [December 4, 2019, 10:18am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-api-cat-indices-to-get-only-user-created-indices/210500/1 "2019-12-04T10:18:14Z")

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Hi Support Team,

How can i write the cat indices API (or any if there is an alternative) to get the list of user created indices.

Using cat indices API i am getting all the system created indices as well which i want to avoid.

Below is the get call i use to get the indices;

https://elasticsearch\_host:9243/\_cat/indices?v&s=index

Regards

Kaushik

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [January 1, 2020, 10:18am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-api-cat-indices-to-get-only-user-created-indices/210500/2 "2020-01-01T10:18:27Z")

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