What is the exactly content like in a index file in elasticsearch

I haven't used it for a while but Luke used to be a good UI app for inspecting Lucene indices and the seems to support inspecting Elasticsearch indices now too.

Disclaimer: I have not run Luke since it was hosted on Google Code.

IMPORTANT: I would definitely copy the indices to a new folder (outside of you ES directory) and point Luke at that copy to make sure it doesn't corrupt the index somehow.