# How do you get all aliases (and their respective indices) in ES on 2.X?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-do-you-get-all-aliases-and-their-respective-indices-in-es-on-2-x/53824>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [June 23, 2016, 7:27pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-do-you-get-all-aliases-and-their-respective-indices-in-es-on-2-x/53824 "2016-06-23T19:27:23Z")\
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**Post date:** [June 24, 2016, 6:43pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-do-you-get-all-aliases-and-their-respective-indices-in-es-on-2-x/53824/5 "2016-06-24T18:43:30Z")

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> [@Josh\_J\_Luo](#):
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> client.admin().indices().getAliases()

That method is asking me for arguments. I dug in a little and it looks like it is for finding specific aliases in the system. I need them all.

Isn't there a method that just looks at the db and says "Give me all the aliases you know about"?

```
curl 'localhost:9200/_cat/aliases?v

```

gives me everything I want, but I need the Java form of it.

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