# How to get the health status of a single index in elasticsearch?
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-get-the-health-status-of-a-single-index-in-elasticsearch/313129
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [August 29, 2022, 8:05am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-get-the-health-status-of-a-single-index-in-elasticsearch/313129 "2022-08-29T08:05:09Z")
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### Author:  [@dishant.sharma](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dishant.sharma)
#### Post date: [August 29, 2022, 8:05am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-get-the-health-status-of-a-single-index-in-elasticsearch/313129/1 "2022-08-29T08:05:09Z")
I am using elasticsearch 5.6.16. I know about the cluster health and cat health APIs which come bundled with elasticsearch 5.6
I want to know the status of a particular index found inside my elasticsearch local instance. The issue with cluster health or cat health API is that they return the health status of all the indices present inside the elasticsearch instance and I only want to get the health status of a particular instance.
Is there a way by which I can the health status of a single index only?
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### Author:  [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)
#### Post date: [August 29, 2022, 8:09am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-get-the-health-status-of-a-single-index-in-elasticsearch/313129/2 "2022-08-29T08:09:39Z")
5.6 is very much [EOL](https://www.elastic.co/support/eol) and you need to upgrade as a matter of high urgency.
You can use `_cat/indices/` if you want.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [September 26, 2022, 8:09am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-get-the-health-status-of-a-single-index-in-elasticsearch/313129/3 "2022-09-26T08:09:59Z")
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