How to filter out system indices?

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I cannot find any documentation on system indices. I want to retrieve all non-system indices and the way I am doing it is to get all indices first and filter out system indices.

The filter I am using is "does the index name start with a dot? Like .task, .kibana, .monitoring".

I don't think that's a very good/safe filter. It also means a user cannot have an index name starting with a dot. But what else filter can I use?

I know one inconvenient solution which is to add aliases to non-system indices. Any easy solutions on a better filter logic?

Thanks.

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It's a convention. System indices start with a dot.

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