# What are the Sense's columns meanings for GET \_cat/indices?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-are-the-senses-columns-meanings-for-get--cat-indices/29658>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [September 20, 2015, 3:09pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-are-the-senses-columns-meanings-for-get--cat-indices/29658 "2015-09-20T15:09:32Z")\
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**Author:** ![drortrie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/57b2e6/32.png) [@drortrie](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/drortrie)\
**Post date:** [September 20, 2015, 3:09pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-are-the-senses-columns-meanings-for-get--cat-indices/29658/1 "2015-09-20T15:09:32Z")

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Hi,  
I couldn't find anywhere what are the meanings of the columns at the Sense site for "GET \_cat/indices" (indices endpoint).

If i'll try to guess -

yellow open .marvel-kibana 1 1 1 0 3.1kb 3.1kb  
[status] [some other status?] [index name] [shards?] [?] [num of docs] [??] [size] [actual size?]

Thanks 🙂

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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:** [September 20, 2015, 9:51pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-are-the-senses-columns-meanings-for-get--cat-indices/29658/2 "2015-09-20T21:51:49Z")

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Add `?help` at the end to see the help, and add `?v` for column names.

Also this is an ES thing, not specific to Marvel, see [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/cat.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/cat.html)

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**Author:** ![drortrie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/57b2e6/32.png) [@drortrie](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/drortrie)\
**Post date:** [September 21, 2015, 8:53am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-are-the-senses-columns-meanings-for-get--cat-indices/29658/3 "2015-09-21T08:53:25Z")

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Thanks!

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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, 11:49pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-are-the-senses-columns-meanings-for-get--cat-indices/29658/4 "2017-07-05T23:49:07Z")

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