The paragraph above that command (sorry I didn't scroll down to there before, I was looking at the section titled Snapshot) says:
"In this format, the command will return information about all currently running snapshots"
By all currently running snapshots its referring to all snapshots that are currently in progress (as in the ones that are actually in the process of creating a snapshot). This is a bit confusing though so I'll make a change to update the documentation to clarify that.
I think in your case curl -XGET 'localhost:9200/_snapshot/my_backup/_all/_status?pretty should give you what you are after
Hmm actually the command I meant to write from the document was:
GET /_snapshot/my_backup/_all
but looking at this again it is actually weird and confusing that _snapshot/REPO/SNAPSHOT/_status does return a result but _snapshot/REPO/_all/_status doesn't. I'll try and investigate this a bit more. Bear with me.
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