Useful queries for checking ElasticSearch indexes

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# list all indexes
curl 'localhost:9200/_cat/indices?v'

# dump the index definition into a file
curl 'localhost:9200/{index}/_mapping?pretty' > ~/es_schema.json

# dump the index into a file
curl -XPOST 'localhost:9200/{index}/_search?pretty' \
    -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
    -d '{"size": 10000, "query": { "match_all": {} }}' > ~/es_data.json