# What does \`Ajax\` at last column mean when I execute curl https://localhost:9200/\_cat/shards

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-does-ajax-at-last-column-mean-when-i-execute-curl-https-localhost-9200--cat-shards/79043>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [March 17, 2017, 2:37pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-does-ajax-at-last-column-mean-when-i-execute-curl-https-localhost-9200--cat-shards/79043 "2017-03-17T14:37:22Z")\
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**Author:** ![klein\_stephane](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/klein_stephane/32/11364_2.png) [@klein\_stephane](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/klein_stephane)\
**Post date:** [March 17, 2017, 2:37pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-does-ajax-at-last-column-mean-when-i-execute-curl-https-localhost-9200--cat-shards/79043/1 "2017-03-17T14:37:22Z")

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What does `Ajax` at last column mean?

```auto
$ curl https://localhost:9200/_cat/shards
logging.8fc06936-7c12-11e6-a923-005056b1755a.2017.02.21 0 p STARTED 627 261kb 10.1.3.11 Ajax

```

Best regards,  
Stéphane

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**Author:** ![klein\_stephane](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/klein_stephane/32/11364_2.png) [@klein\_stephane](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/klein_stephane)\
**Post date:** [March 17, 2017, 2:42pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-does-ajax-at-last-column-mean-when-i-execute-curl-https-localhost-9200--cat-shards/79043/2 "2017-03-17T14:42:51Z")

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Ok, `Ajax` is the name of my cluster:

```auto
$ curl "https://localhost:9200?pretty=1"
{
  "status" : 200,
  "name" : "Ajax",
  "cluster_name" : "logging-es",
  "version" : {
    "number" : "1.5.2",
    "build_hash" : "62ff9868b4c8a0c45860bebb259e21980778ab1c",
    "build_timestamp" : "2015-04-27T09:21:06Z",
    "build_snapshot" : false,
    "lucene_version" : "4.10.4"
  },
  "tagline" : "You Know, for Search"
}

```

No relation with HTTP Ajax Request 🙂

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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:** [March 17, 2017, 8:20pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-does-ajax-at-last-column-mean-when-i-execute-curl-https-localhost-9200--cat-shards/79043/3 "2017-03-17T20:20:39Z")

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Add `?v` to get the column names in the output 🙂

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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:** [April 14, 2017, 8:20pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-does-ajax-at-last-column-mean-when-i-execute-curl-https-localhost-9200--cat-shards/79043/4 "2017-04-14T20:20:38Z")

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