And is there a way to configure whether to include the default system indices, whose names start with a dot?

Welcome! You can use the _cat API. Something like: curl localhost:9200/_cat/indices | wc -l You can try something like: curl localhost:9200/_cat/indices/*,-.* | wc -l Not tested but I think it should exclude indices starting with a dot.

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How can I get the count of all indices?

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buaaytt October 30, 2021, 1:02pm 3

Got something like this:

Doesn't look like it has the index count value though.

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