# How to query current cluster shard allocation setting
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-query-current-cluster-shard-allocation-setting/201825
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [October 1, 2019, 2:31pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-query-current-cluster-shard-allocation-setting/201825 "2019-10-01T14:31:43Z")
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### Author:  [@LeeSyd](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/LeeSyd)
#### Post date: [October 1, 2019, 2:31pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-query-current-cluster-shard-allocation-setting/201825/1 "2019-10-01T14:31:43Z")
I may be doing something stupid. I'm sure I've queried under older versions but can't seem to query through the API or console to determine current cluster shard allocation setting - is anybody able to assist please?
I can enable and disable with a PUT but if I try the console with the following: -
GET \_cluster/settings
{
"persistent": {
"cluster.routing.allocation.enable"
}
}
I get error: -
{
"error": "Incorrect HTTP method for uri [/\_cluster/settings?pretty] and method [POST], allowed: [PUT, GET]",
"status": 405
}
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### Author:  [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)
#### Post date: [October 1, 2019, 2:46pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-query-current-cluster-shard-allocation-setting/201825/2 "2019-10-01T14:46:54Z")
You can't run:
```auto
GET _cluster/settings
{
"persistent": {
"cluster.routing.allocation.enable"
}
}
```
You can run:
```auto
GET _cluster/settings
```
What is happening behind the scene of the Dev Console is that anytime you are providing a body with the `GET` http verb, the verb is transformed to `POST`.
Because browsers don't really support GET with body.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [October 29, 2019, 2:46pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-query-current-cluster-shard-allocation-setting/201825/3 "2019-10-29T14:46:54Z")
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