# Indices count

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/indices-count/93002>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [July 13, 2017, 11:39am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/indices-count/93002 "2017-07-13T11:39:18Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![vp15591](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/c67d28/32.png) [@vp15591](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/vp15591)\
**Post date:** [July 13, 2017, 11:39am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/indices-count/93002/1 "2017-07-13T11:39:18Z")

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Hi,

How can i get count of indices?  
\_cat/indices can list all the indices but i want count for it not list.

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**Author:** ![Leandro\_Sampaio](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/leandro_sampaio/32/18409_2.png) [@Leandro\_Sampaio](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Leandro_Sampaio)\
**Post date:** [July 13, 2017, 11:55am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/indices-count/93002/2 "2017-07-13T11:55:14Z")

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With aggs , I belived that's possible

Aggs count ... Terms \_index

When I have a time... I will try

Good luck

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**Author:** ![Tetrapack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/85f322/32.png) [@Tetrapack](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Tetrapack)\
**Post date:** [July 13, 2017, 1:43pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/indices-count/93002/3 "2017-07-13T13:43:05Z")

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Following query will works but it will count only indices with documents inside. Empty indices will not be taken into account :

```
GET _search
{
  "size": 0, 
  "aggs": {
    "countIndices": {
      "cardinality": {
        "field": "_index"
      }}
  }
}
```

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**Author:** ![vp15591](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/c67d28/32.png) [@vp15591](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/vp15591)\
**Post date:** [July 14, 2017, 5:16am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/indices-count/93002/4 "2017-07-14T05:16:44Z")

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Thank you. It work for me

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**Author:** ![Ivan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/df788c/32.png) [@Ivan](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Ivan)\
**Post date:** [July 14, 2017, 6:08am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/indices-count/93002/5 "2017-07-14T06:08:49Z")

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curl -s ES\_HOST:9200/\_cat/indices | wc -l

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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:** [August 11, 2017, 6:08am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/indices-count/93002/6 "2017-08-11T06:08:51Z")

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