# Is there a way to ask ES what settings it's using?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-there-a-way-to-ask-es-what-settings-its-using/26531>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [July 29, 2015, 11:07pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-there-a-way-to-ask-es-what-settings-its-using/26531 "2015-07-29T23:07:18Z")\
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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:** [July 29, 2015, 11:29pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-there-a-way-to-ask-es-what-settings-its-using/26531/2 "2015-07-29T23:29:45Z")

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Some of this was asked in [Update settings on cluster level](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/update-settings-on-cluster-level/26445)

But you want to avoid setting shard allocation to off in your .yml, otherwise the only way to change this is to restart your cluster ☹

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