# Query for all indices in a cluster
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/query-for-all-indices-in-a-cluster/137481
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [June 26, 2018, 5:34pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/query-for-all-indices-in-a-cluster/137481 "2018-06-26T17:34:40Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@TwoDragon](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/TwoDragon)
#### Post date: [June 26, 2018, 5:34pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/query-for-all-indices-in-a-cluster/137481/1 "2018-06-26T17:34:40Z")
Hi,
In Elasticsearch 6.x, there is a call to es.indices.get\_alias to get all the indices in a given alias. Is there a method to get all indices that are not associated with any alias. My purpose is to clean up those indices that are not associated with any alias.
Thanks,
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### Author:  [@polyfractal](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/polyfractal)
#### Post date: [June 26, 2018, 7:10pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/query-for-all-indices-in-a-cluster/137481/2 "2018-06-26T19:10:49Z")
Not that I'm aware of. You can get a list of _all_ the indices ([Cat Indices](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/cat-indices.html), [Get Index](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/indices-get-index.html), etc), but I can't think of an API that returns only the indices that don't have an associated alias.
I think you'll have to get the list of indices, then the list of aliases and their associated indices, and intersect the two sets client-side.
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### Author:  [@TwoDragon](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/TwoDragon)
#### Post date: [June 26, 2018, 7:17pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/query-for-all-indices-in-a-cluster/137481/3 "2018-06-26T19:17:39Z")
Thanks, I can use curl to get the indices as you suggested. Does it have any way to get indices that match a certain pattern in Python?
curl -X GET "localhost:9200/1234\*"
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### Author:  [@TwoDragon](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/TwoDragon)
#### Post date: [June 26, 2018, 9:08pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/query-for-all-indices-in-a-cluster/137481/4 "2018-06-26T21:08:01Z")
I found out that you can get all the indices that match a pattern as
es.indices.get(index="1234\*")
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 24, 2018, 9:08pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/query-for-all-indices-in-a-cluster/137481/5 "2018-07-24T21:08:03Z")
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