# GET /\_cat/shards **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [September 6, 2018, 8:38am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/get-cat-shards/147530 "2018-09-06T08:38:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ytzlax](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/ytzlax/32/34754_2.png) [@ytzlax](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ytzlax)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2018, 8:38am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/get-cat-shards/147530/1 "2018-09-06T08:38:16Z")
Hi, When I run GET /\_cat/shards I get the next output: .kibana **0** p STARTED 21 60.6kb xxx.xx.x.xxx elk-1 What the zero means? Thanks ---
**Author:** ![dltu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f05b48/32.png) [@dltu](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dltu)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2018, 8:45am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/get-cat-shards/147530/2 "2018-09-06T08:45:00Z")
GET /\_cat/shards?v to show header of data 😃 ---
**Author:** ![ytzlax](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/ytzlax/32/34754_2.png) [@ytzlax](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ytzlax)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2018, 8:59am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/get-cat-shards/147530/3 "2018-09-06T08:59:21Z")
Sorry, I didn't understand what you wrote ---
**Author:** ![vara0855](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/3da27b/32.png) [@vara0855](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/vara0855)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2018, 10:17am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/get-cat-shards/147530/4 "2018-09-06T10:17:31Z")
GET /\_cat/shards - without column names GET /\_cat/shards?v - shows with the name of the columns 0 - it's count of shards ---
**Author:** ![Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/christian_dahlqvist/32/4617_2.png) [@Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Christian_Dahlqvist)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2018, 10:18am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/get-cat-shards/147530/5 "2018-09-06T10:18:25Z")
`0` is the shard number. It starts at `0`, so an index with 3 shards will have shards numbered `0`, `1` and `2`. ---
**Author:** ![ytzlax](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/ytzlax/32/34754_2.png) [@ytzlax](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ytzlax)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2018, 10:29am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/get-cat-shards/147530/6 "2018-09-06T10:29:44Z")
Thanks ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2018, 10:29am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/get-cat-shards/147530/7 "2018-10-04T10:29:50Z")
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