# In 1.7, is there a way to return routing information?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/in-1-7-is-there-a-way-to-return-routing-information/37387>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [December 16, 2015, 6:18pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/in-1-7-is-there-a-way-to-return-routing-information/37387 "2015-12-16T18:18:06Z")\
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**Author:** ![gdeconto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/cab0a1/32.png) [@gdeconto](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/gdeconto)\
**Post date:** [December 16, 2015, 6:18pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/in-1-7-is-there-a-way-to-return-routing-information/37387/1 "2015-12-16T18:18:06Z")

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hi.

is there a way in ES 1.7.2 to return routing information about the documents (ie which route/shard...), or a way to return stats about the routes (ie how many docs in each route, how many routes on a shard, which routes on a shard...)?

if not, is there any support for this in ES 2.x??

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [December 17, 2015, 3:34am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/in-1-7-is-there-a-way-to-return-routing-information/37387/2 "2015-12-17T03:34:33Z")

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No and no. Not sure if there is anything on the roadmap for this

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 5, 2017, 11:30pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/in-1-7-is-there-a-way-to-return-routing-information/37387/3 "2017-07-05T23:30:21Z")

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